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 […]
Category: music business
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 […]
Why you don’t need to get paid
This guy will tell youwhat you deserve. I see that the old downloader “culture”— always a sketchy-sounding crew, even in the early days when they were led by high tech vanguard types writing in Wired— […]
Look, just take whatever they want to give you
Something no one needs,yet strangely not free. What better way to welcome a new (he’s actually been doing this longer than me) colleague to my blogroll, and thank him for linking to my Playing Quieter […]
The club scene
Here’s a great piece on understanding the, well, near-dead state of live music in clubs (professionally, anyway), and what musicians can begin to do about the situation, by LA pianist Dave Goldberg. It opens: AS […]