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Does Vezt Provide Songwriters With Their Business Model of the Future?

Vezt trumpets itself as the savior of the struggling performer. But can the fledgeling start-up help artists get by? And can the company itself survive long enough to find out?

Jack Denton

Music Copyright Law Is Finally Out of the Analog Age

The Musical Works Modernization Act, which brings changes to digital music royalties and copyright privileges, was signed into law last week.

Jack Denton

Social Justice

How Australia Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Testing Ground

Facebook, Spotify, Tinder—all have used the land down under as a test dummy for new features.

Rachel Withers

Environment

Remember When We Were Pirates?

The launch of Apple Music is yet another nail in the coffin of online music piracy. Is that a good thing?

Kyle Chayka

Social Justice

Swedish Pop Mafia

How a culturally conservative effort in the 1940s backfired to create the greatest engine of pop music in the world.

Whet Moser

Social Justice

Who would write, almost daily, 1,000-word overviews of composers and music that most of the general population has never heard of and probably don't care to know about? Inside the weird world of Amazon's most hardcore reviewers and their quest for the best.

John Fram

Spotify

Does Vezt Provide Songwriters With Their Business Model of the Future?

Music Copyright Law Is Finally Out of the Analog Age

How Australia Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Testing Ground

Remember When We Were Pirates?

Swedish Pop Mafia

The Cult of Amazon