This graph is from a recent entry over at the Times Labs Blog called “Do music artists fare better in a world with with illegal file-sharing?“ “This is the graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see… The most immediate revelation, of course,...

I was flipping through the book Everyday Tao and came across the entry for Music: There was once a zither student whose master, frustrated by his pupil’s lack of musical progress for so many years, pronounced him unsuitable for learning. To understand...

Tracksonamap.com is a new interface for interacting with music from around the world. It’s definitely worth a quick go-round to get a feel for the timbres and rhythms that make up the global sonic landscape right now. For more on the soundscape...

“Everyone must begin to trust their dreams because out of that trust is born the artist, and the artist is the role model for the entrepreneur we now need.” - Ernest Hall (entrepreneur and musician) from The Creative Economy: How People Make Money...

It’s my life.  It’s my pain and my struggle, The song that I sing to you it’s my everything. Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first And my thirst is the same as when I came. It’s my joy and my tears and the laughter it brings to...