by Elise Yablon | Mar 19, 2020 | News
People stuck at home ordering their vinyl and CDs online may have to wait a little longer to get their music. On Wednesday (18), Amazon announced that they will stop taking in non-essential items to their warehouses to free up space for high-priority...
by Mark Zapata | Mar 21, 2019 | Editorials
The recent ruling by the Copyright Review Board has once again dragged into the light the issue of songwriter compensation. Songwriters and music streaming services have been quietly battling for a long time while the world enjoys access to millions of songs at the...
by Mark Zapata | Mar 15, 2019 | Editorials
In an aggressive move against songwriters, major streaming services have appealed a decision by the Copyright Royalty Board to increase royalty rates paid to artists. The ruling will increase royalty rates for artists by 44% over 5 years. The 2018 ruling was recently...
by Mark Zapata | Mar 13, 2019 | Editorials, News
The latest in the ongoing digital music streaming discussion has to do with artist compensation. Some headlines falsely accuse Sweden’s music streaming giant Spotify of “Suing songwriters” along with Amazon, Pandora and Google as the four leading...
by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 1, 2016 | Holiday Season In The Abyss, News
Amazon re-launched their Indie for the Holidays playlist which is compiled by covers performed by supposed underground stars. The Melvins have crept in on this list as they recorded their own version of “Carol of the Bells.” According to Stereogum, King Buzzo himself...