Transmission: What We've Been Reading

DIY Musician Why you should treat your band like a startup

Noisey Rappers shouldn’t be underrepresented in music funding

FYI Music News Fighting the good fight: CIMA battles for indies

MMF and Music Supports The Music Manager's Guide to Mental Health [download]

NOW Toronto Toronto Music Advisory Council is supporting the Agent Of Change principle to help save music venues

CityLab Why Cities Can't Afford to Lose Their Artists: A look at America's leading arts hubs and their roles in economic development.

Crain's New York Business Staying live: With fewer venues and shrinking pay, New York's musicians are getting ever more creative when it comes to making a buck

Music Business Worldwide YouTube music not be allowed to benefit from 'legalised piracy on an unimaginable scale'

New York Post Music industry blasts YouTube’s ‘value’ report

Music Business Worldwide YouTube has a new label relations boss: Soundcloud’s Stephen Bryan

Noisey Why are Spotify pretending they don’t decide what we listen to?

Billboard Spotify settles class action lawsuits filed by David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick with $43.4 million fund

NPR In $43 million settlement, Spotify forced to confront a persistent problem

Rolling Stone Inside the industry's long, slow embrace of streaming music

The Conversation How data is transforming the music industry

Voir Les musiciennes québécoises dénoncent le sexisme

Noisey Laura Marling will happily answer the “being a woman in music” question

Metro Winnipeg Exchange District becoming too expensive for artists: report

Toronto Star Affordable-housing project in Regent Park envisioned just for musicians