Each unique card includes an original illustration and colorful design alongside a transformative theme and short explanation. The trading

This week, Dmitri and Tristra get to chat with one of their music tech heroes: industry analyst and deep thinker Mark Mulligan. We talk a lot on the podcast about “seismic shifts” in the music industry, and Mark is a true music tech seismologist. If you’ve read his Music Industry Blog, followed his work with MIDiA Research, or seen him speak, you know that his data-powered approach is unparalleled for understanding, explaining, and predicting upheavals in the music tech lands

There was a time when album sales, ticket sales and radio airplay were the only numbers that mattered in the music industry. Now, streaming generates extremely granular data about who is listening, when, where, and how. Greg Delaney and Erik Gilbert of the data management company Entertainment Intelligence sat down with podcast host Dmitri Vietze and Tristra Newyear Yeager to dig into how this data explosion is changing the music business. Which came first, the profusion of d

The technology we use to listen to and make music is changing the very nature of music. Maximum album length was determined by how much data

This week on the podcast, Noah Becker chats with host Dmitri Vietze about how multiple claims on music usage keeps all parties from getting

Are the systems and laws keeping up or is the industry struggling to adapt to the rapid pace of change? This week on the Music Tectonics pod

It’s very easy to play music via voice commands (Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon and Apple are on the case), and music is by far the #1 use

This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, host Dmitri Vietze chats with Tristra Newyear Yeager, resident music tech deep thinker, about unex

In a 2002 profile in the New York Times, David Bowie said, “'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music

Music Tectonics has identified several seismic shifts that have created the music landscape of today and tomorrow. These are climate changes

Just like the old nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty, the music industry had a great fall and shattered. Vickie Nauman witnessed the fall when the Napster-driven shift from physical to digital hit in 2000, and is one of the digital music pioneers who put the industry back together again. Listen in as she explores the aftermath with podcast host Dmitri Vietze. How successfully has the music biz egg been mended? Where are there cracks left to fill? Is the reformulated indust

Globalization has been powering seismic shifts on planet Earth for hundreds of years. Now the world is shrinking faster than ever as nationa

Every week, Music Tectonics goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the way business gets done. Starting today, we’re taking that mission further. Music Tectonics has identified several seismic shifts that have created the music landscape of today and tomorrow. These are climate changes, tectonic shifts beneath the surface, unexpected flash floods, or meteor collisions. Today we tackle “Music is More Global Than Ever,” a look at th