pandora panel tonight
WHAT: Panel Discussion about the impact of the digital revolution in the music industry with the head dude from Pandora.com.
WHERE: Music Millennium
WHEN: 6pm too-nite! (woo-man!)
From Pandora.com:
"I'll be heading up to Portland, Oregon for a couple days of musical exploration and conversation. The main event of the trip is a 'town hall' get together at Music Millenium (801 NW 23rd Avenue) on Tuesday evening at 6pm to talk radio and digital music. Terry Currier, the longtime owner has generously agreed to host us at this indie music mecca. I'll be joined by Rick Emerson, a much beloved local radio personality, active blogger, and longtime music industry commentator for a provocative discussion on 'radio in the digital age.' Peter Carlin, journalist for the Oregonian, and a thoughtful writer on media will moderate, incite and lead what will hopefully be a lively and informative conversation about the impact of the digital revolution on the modern music industry, with a particular focus on radio.
Tim (Founder)"
WHERE: Music Millennium
WHEN: 6pm too-nite! (woo-man!)
From Pandora.com:
"I'll be heading up to Portland, Oregon for a couple days of musical exploration and conversation. The main event of the trip is a 'town hall' get together at Music Millenium (801 NW 23rd Avenue) on Tuesday evening at 6pm to talk radio and digital music. Terry Currier, the longtime owner has generously agreed to host us at this indie music mecca. I'll be joined by Rick Emerson, a much beloved local radio personality, active blogger, and longtime music industry commentator for a provocative discussion on 'radio in the digital age.' Peter Carlin, journalist for the Oregonian, and a thoughtful writer on media will moderate, incite and lead what will hopefully be a lively and informative conversation about the impact of the digital revolution on the modern music industry, with a particular focus on radio.
Tim (Founder)"
2 Comments:
I was kind of interested in how that went. Learn anything from it?
Well... we learned that everyone agrees that commercial radio sucks ass. Many people love services like Pandora, but also love being guided by talented DJs allowed to have a mind of their own, and also people love the relevance of traffic, weather and other info of a local station -- both things that Pandora and similar services lack. Also we learned that everybody loves Gustav! :-)
Basically, it was concluded that all of these things can exist simultaneously, it doesn't have to be one or the other, and that when you want local talk or news, you tune into a local station, and when you want to hear what guys in basements a million miles away are doing, you tune into Live 365, and when you want to hear a commercial- and talk-free "sounds like" playlist, you tune into Pandora. The only truly irrelevant piece of the puzzle is the present commercial formats of stations like The Buzz and so forth, which seem to be universally despised by anyone with any sense of taste or independent thought. That's what I got from it, anyway.
Also, Peter Carlin is dreamy, and Rick is an asshole.
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