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Cuepoint
Medium’s Premier Music Publication: An ear for the new, a heart for the classics
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Scott Sander
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Cuepoint
Aug 16, 2016
SightSound Versus Apple, and the Death Squad for Patents
We’re the guys who invented the download music store, showed it all to Steve, and got rolled by Apple
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Sam Potts
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Jul 11, 2016
Record Labels Need a Change of Culture in the ‘Dashboard Era’ of the Music Industry
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Tom Moon
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Jun 21, 2016
Can Locking Up Our Phones at Concerts Really Save Us from Ourselves?
Riffs on prying the audience’s…
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Jim McDermott
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Jun 14, 2016
The Digital Music Business and the Rashomon Effect
For over 20 years, artists, labels and the music…
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Jim McDermott
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May 13, 2016
The Music Industry Buried More Than 150 Startups—Now They are Left to Dance with the Giants
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Most Music Tech Startups Didn’t Know Shit About How Labels Worked
And other truths about the new music…
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Cortney Harding
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Apr 1, 2016
Is YouTube’s Music Domination Finally Coming to an End?
As Spotify, SoundCloud and Apple Music raise…
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Lauren Wirtzer Seawood
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Mar 14, 2016
What Instagram Discovered in Our First Nielsen Music Study
First-time statistics reveal just how…
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Cortney Harding
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Mar 4, 2016
The Music Startup Meltdown
It’s going to get worse before it gets better…
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S. Mubashir Noor
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Jan 28, 2016
The Tower Records Stuck in Time
In Japan, the CD is still king. Why does one culture resist online…
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Craig Havighurst
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Jan 12, 2016
Classical Music Needs a New Name
…and here it is.
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