OBLIGATORY TENUOUSLY-RELATED IMAGE AND CAPTION: Boilerplate should never be anything but a creepy, late-Victorian, steampunkish, fictional robot in your life— it has NO PLACE in your bio! Via Ted Gioia on Twitter, here’s a good piece […]
Category: music business
Creative Apocalypse coda
No, it’s this. Since my last update, there have been many more responses to Steven Johnson’s New York Times Magazine piece The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t, but it was largely piling on, and the essential […]
Tech-boosting NYT writer beat up
For starters, I don’t believe anyone was predicting an actual apocalypse… UPDATE: More links at the end! Lots of people talking about this article. STILL MORE UPDATES: This thing is a hit. Will Buckley at […]
In which I call BS on Internet media
Cheaper than everything but outright piracy Internet era music consumership reminds me of this passage from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We […]
In which I give naked clickbait much more attention than it deserves
There’s TONS of this stuff out there. UPDATE: Ari Herstand at Digital Music News has also ripped the guy a new one. Here is something which is at best is clickbait— some drone working for […]
Tech is not your friend, part eleventy
A piece called Sleeping Through A Revolution, by Jonathan Taplin, who is a professor at USC, and the producer of a bunch of great movies— Mean Streets, To Die For, The Last Waltz. He’s not […]
Your big paycheck is just around the corner.
In Salon today is a conversation with Marc Ribot about the future of copyright, the Internet, and the state of the music business in general. What started the conversation was some statements by producer Steve […]
VOQOTD: Marc Ribot on the state of things
From the August 2014 Jazz Times interview with Guitarist Marc Ribot: It’s not an exaggeration to say that the recording industry has collapsed. There’s been something like a 60% collapse. And that last 40% could […]
Smackdown
This is fun. Musicians at all levels of the business are becoming increasingly incensed at the devaluation of our work by people with money, and in the culture in general, and are becoming vocal about […]
Just so we’re all on the same page…
While I’m working on some last-minute pre-tour adds to my book, I suggest reading this, from Digital Music News: The 13 Most Insidious, Pervasive Lies of the Modern Music Industry… One of my favorites: Lie […]