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Writing from CASH Music, a nonprofit working to educate and empower musicians. Supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation.

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Bandpage sold to YouTube. All your middlemen are for sale. Let’s do better.

Bandpage sold to YouTube. All your middlemen are for sale. Let’s do better.

Floating in Friday’s news dump jetsam was the announcement that Bandpage has been sold to YouTube. Nothing about this is particularly…
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Jesse von DoomFeb 15
They’re right. The era of a $19 plastic disc is over. But a beautiful object matters.

They’re right. The era of a $19 plastic disc is over. But a beautiful object matters.

The common refrain by experts in the music industry is that we’re in the digital era so all revenue should be digital. There’s a threshold…
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Jesse von DoomJan 6
2015 and the people who made it great

2015 and the people who made it great

I’ve been sitting here trying to write proper year-end thoughts for CASH Music, mostly staring at a blank screen. It feels like I should be…
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Jesse von DoomDec 18, 2015
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Jumping Off Cliffs

Jumping Off Cliffs

A look at why open is a vital concept for supporting artists in the digital era.
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Jesse von DoomNov 4, 2015
Transparency and pumpkins

Transparency and pumpkins

Providence, Rhode Island is one of my favorite places in the world. I spent some of the best years of my life there. I made friends there…
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Jesse von DoomAug 3, 2015
Karl Marx to Taylor Swift and back again

Karl Marx to Taylor Swift and back again

“The means of production is now in the hands of the workers,” as Ted Leo once sang and every Marxist philosopher has written about at one…
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Jesse von DoomJun 21, 2015
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