Sound Recording Industries

The 20 most coveted Colorado music-industry jobs: The complete list with five new profiles

In our series of coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, we've covered a range of jobs, from guitar tech and handling publicity to being tasked with overseeing digital music delivery from a vast electronic music catalog to band management. Today, we complete our list of the most coveted Colorado music ... More >>

Why EDM is thriving while other genres aren't

DJs are the new rock stars? Maybe. (Although chefs are already the new rock stars.) Still, the big name DJs do seem to be living pretty large, what with the constant travel to exotic locations, goofily-clad fans, eager women, drugs and parties. Just swap MacBooks for guitars and it doesn't look so d ... More >>

The ten best concerts this weekend: October 5-7

Welcome to the weekend, amigos! Cold enough for you this morning? Yeah, we're feeling all sorts of brrrrrr over here. Only in Colorado can you go from eighty degrees to the thirties in the expanse of a couple of days. Alas, though, there's relief on the horizion, plenty of hot music this weekend to ... More >>

Chris Heckman of the Epilogues on the new album and working with Greater Than

The music industry sucks, and the Epilogues know it. They're no strangers to being let down by the business. Over the course of the band's nearly six year existence, its members have gone through the label dance enough to know what a downer it is. Waiting in limbo, the band went through some serious ... More >>

Columbia Records came up with a solution to saving the music industry over a decade ago?

After an exhaustive 72-month long search in which we literally sacrificed the best years of our young lives combing through and examining reams and reams of articles, spread sheets and op-eds, and wading through countless more hours of supposed expert opinions miring us in endless conjecture on the ... More >>

The ghost of Denver's hair metal past visits and comes bearing a holiday gift that keeps on giving

​In the hierarchy of things that happened in the pop metal world after Nirvana's Nevermind was released, this one has to rank pretty high in the pantheon, at least locally. The year was 1993: The music industry was booming, hair metal was fading and a handful of Denver rock enthusiasts were ma ... More >>

Live Nation and Universal Music form super-company

​Live Nation Entertainment, which now houses Ticketmaster, House of Blues and Ticketweb has announced a partnership with the Universal Music Group to create a joint-venture management company for managing and strengthening the label's acts. This is the first time a major label has teamed up di ... More >>

As the music industry circles the drain, Netflix tops torrents in traffic. When is the music industry going to catch up?

​Earlier this year, a report surfaced detailing current BitTorrent usage, with porn being the number one most torrented media and music sinking to a miserable 2.9 percent. Now, Sandvine company has detailed the biggest data hogs of the past year, and Netflix's streaming is on the top. When is ... More >>

American Idol is giving us a ticker-tape parade of the same boring B.S.

Guitar Hero franchise overdoses and dies

​In a statement alongside it's quarterly and annual fiscal report, Activision, the company behind the Guitar Hero series, effectively put the axe on the series. Over the course of the last two years, the series has seen dropping sales due to a market that's completely saturated and an expensiv ... More >>

Rihanna, Gareth Emery, the fickle internet and the problem with Next Big Sound's Social Charts

Gareth Emery: Next big sound?​Billboard recently debuted a pair of new charts compiled by Boulder-based company Next Big Sound, the subject of a recent Westword feature. The charts, called the Social 50 and the Next Big Sound 25, track bands' online presence, whether it's Facebook "likes" or ... More >>

Meet Nathan Reid, studio wiz extraordinare

​Many people in Denver may not know Nathan Reid by name. Just the same, over the course of his career, which spans three decades, he's had the chance to work with a host of prominent acts from Ghostface to Damien and Stephen Marley. Currently operating out of Mercury Sauce, his private produ ... More >>

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It's 2010, and some members of the music industry still have no clue

​This magical Internet machine has been up and running for a while now, transmitting music from the ether to our ears using a mix of faerie dust and marketing panache. It seems, however, that there is still a decisive split on what this new mystery machine means for the future of music. You' ... More >>

Matt Morris is no longer a Tenmann Recording artist?

​Yeah, that headline threw us for a loop as well. "Dear Family, Friends & Fans," begins Matt Morris's Tumblr post yesterday. "There's some news I have to share. It's pretty big, so Mom - if you're standing, you better sit down. As of today, I am no longer a Tennman Records Artist..." WTF? Th ... More >>

Randall Frazier faced some Massive hurdles running an independent promotions firm

​Being in the music business is tough these days. Ask Randall Frazier, who, as reported yesterday, recently shuttered Massive Music America, a fairly successful independent promotions firm he launched in 2003. "The digital music/iPod world that we are now living in has greatly changed the music in ... More >>

Just how much sense — and cents — does it make for an indie band to give away its music?

Vintage Q&A With Lil Jon

Taking the World On

After five months of interest, Meese signs with Atlantic Records.

Hard Chargers

Sox’s Place is the heart of Denver’s underground hardcore scene.

Beatsource.com Sets the Pace

The hip-hop arm of Beatport.com is ready for the big takeover.

It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

The year in unfair shares.

Coping Skills

Citizen Cope has built a loyal following without much help.

Coming Down the Mountain

Thee Silver Mt. Zion blazes its own trail.

Best Swan Song

Antidote
The Gamits

Music Tour Tunes Up

Ropeadope blends musical styles while hitting the road.

Best Prog Label

ReR USA

The Beatdown

Kiss me, I’m a rock star -- at least for one night.

Backwash

Radio waves: Clear Channel clears the air about independent promoters.

Internet Interruption

Web-radio legislation gets tangled in politics.

The Lapse of Luxury

After a four-year hiatus, Girls Against Boys is back in the high life again.

Backwash

Music everywhere: Music Lowdown 2002 and the Westword Music Showcase covered both the recording industry and live, in-the-flesh performances.

Another Piece of the Rock

Nuggets II strikes gold by mining new territory.

Radio Rumble

Clear Channel takes on all comers, including the largest ratings service in the country.

Ace in the Hole

Hip-hop's Aceyalone looks for ways to climb up from the underground.

Seller's Market

Jimmy Eat World doesn't have a record label, a distributor or a care in the world.

The Bad Luck Club

After years of struggle with record labels, Automatic 7 is slowly returning to the business of punk rock.

Best local kids' recording

Wheeeeeeeeee: Songs & Stories for Kids by Front Range Artists

Backwash

Please, don't try to classify Tony Furtado.

Backwash

Dire predictions for music in the Y2K.

Shine On

Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse is running the race his way.

Getting Big

Ex-Denver DJ Big Jon Platt on how to succeed in business by really, really trying.

Going to W.A.R.?

The inside story of the little Boulder label that could.

Keen Thinking

Robert Earl Keen won't dumb down his music for country consumption.

Hawkins Flies Again

Two new CDs add to the legacy of the late Ted Hawkins.

Chants Encounters

Here's something to meditate about: singing nuns and a Tibetan flutist.

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