Last week a friend of mine turned to me and not so politely asked, “why are those twins still in the show, they can’t sing and they just sent home a dope group”. My response was simple, “it’s not a talent contest, it’s a popularity contest”, very much like the rest of the industry and all the other “talent” shows on Tv. How well you sing has little to do...

The Game Has Changed The future economy is yours for the taking no matter how small you may be. As we keep on saying here at RMXPLAY, technology has changed the Game. The small players now have an equal footing with the big corporate players. In the music industry this is already prevalent with independent artists such as Ronald Jenkees amassing hundreds of thousands of fans and over 10 million views on YouTube...

Dead or Alive? I think it’s generally accepted that printed media is on it way out, and this trend is nothing new nor is it surprising. The ability for the internet to deliver the same news quicker and cheaper makes it hard to justify the value of printed media, let alone paying for it. Yet in 1999, the Metro newspaper launched, and by ignoring the generally accepted conventions of the industry has grown...

To replicate an mp3, how much does it cost? To do a simple copy and paste, what is the “real” cost? And by real, I mean money directly coming out of your pocket as a result of pasting the file. Not the electricity bill or the cost of the computer you are using. Now compare that to actually replicating a cd, or doing a live show again. Get the drift? The marginal cost of creating additional copies...

Musicians are going broke left and right while teens and adults a like, download all the music for free without sending a single penny to the artists. This is what the media is reporting. This is what the record heads at major labels are saying and mourning about. What do we here at RMXPLAY make of all this absurdness? Is there really no more money for us poor musicians? The answer is a resounding HELL NO!...