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