“One of the most extraordinary, timeless bodies of work in music history.” This is one way Rhino Records has been described in the music industry. It has been spanning decades of cultural history and worked with virtually every genre. It is incredible at developing and promoting different collections across multiple media platforms. Rhino has evolved into the world’s premier reissue label, setting standards for excellence in both the physical and digital worlds. Thanks to this label, our…
U Street Music Hall, a DJ-owned concert venue in Washington D.C., recently celebrated their six year anniversary on March 11, 2016. The venue had DJ Jim E-Stack as the opening act, and featured XXYYXX as the main attraction. XXYYXX is a twenty-year old black electronic dance music artist who challenges stereotypes and uses his racial, age, and gender identity to creatively produce music without the boundaries of modern convention. XXYYXX, otherwise known as Marcel Everett, considers his genre…
In this tutorial, Scott Wiggins explains how to record songs like a Professional from your home studio. He discusses the different items that are important to have when setting up a home studio. His six things he talks in detail about are Computer, DAW, Audio Interface, Mic stand and Mic, Pop filter, and Headphones. For the computer, he says as long as you are not trying to do an “eight-piece band with a live accompanying orchestra” a normal Mac or PC with the highest RAM possible should be fine…
Over the year, the continuing decline of CD sales along with the rapid growth of music downloads signals a new era in music. In the same way they started selling CDs in 1982 to replace vinyl records because they were too big, and CDs were more portable. Now people start to download music online, and they stop buying and using CDs. Although, some people think that buy CDs help to artist or the music listening experience is more enjoyable, but equally they buy music for internet and do use CDs for…
seemingly unbeatable Adele to win Best British Single (for their song ‘What Makes You Beautiful’), a prize determined by fan votes.” Even as popular as Adele is, she still couldn’t beat One Direction. Along with their multiple nominations at the British Record Industry Trust Awards, they were also nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards (Best Pop Video and Best New Artist) (Dunne 27). When their debut album, Up All Night, landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, One Direction made history for a…
and cue; pick levels and adjust the sound before producing a final copy. It also meant that if a sound wasn’t right they could burn a new sound over the same CD (Glenn, 2014; Tracey; 1986; Schwartz, 2016). This was a massive leap forward from the records and tape recorders that were previously available for use in the theatre. To play back a CD during a performance there were few options available to sound operators. When CD players were introduced into theatrical sound systems, it was a unique…
epiphenomenal by product of the physical processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval processes that involve synaptic pathways in the mind. As such, memory can be seen as analogous to a record player that imperfectly reads and writes records. Although my analogy is imperfect, my theory of memory as an epiphenomenal record player serves to motivate the discussion of memory in the philosophy of mind and to encourage more discussion concerning this underdeveloped aspect of our mental…
George Orwell based the Thought Police off the Narodnvi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del or NKVD, who arrested citizens of the Soviet Union who had rebellious actions or statements (Willans). George Orwell prophesied the use of horrific techniques to implement governmental control in his novel, 1984, regarding a totalitarian government that prohibits any ideas outside their own, through the use of the Thought Police’s predictive analytic technology, audio detection software, and constant…
The beginning of sound recording was an extranomical feet, shaking the ground of modern technology at the time, but now it has developed so rapidly to support our need of human connection that you might be surprised how similar we are to those who first invented it. The process of refining and marketing the phonograph from the texts “The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph” and “The Incredible Talking Machine” by Randall Stross is similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight in Mark…
Periodically the Australian Music Industry has gone through constant periods of growth and alteration. Digitisation shows this transformation, as the traditional consumption of live music has shifted from $26 billion to $15 billion over a 15 year span (2014). This modernised landscape, has largely affected the physical presence of the industry's multi-layered persona. This adaptation is presented in the ‘Australian Independent Music Market report’, which stated digital revenue from downloads and…