Change is Inevitable. Growth is Intentional. Songza is ?
Just as I’m struggling to decide the best way to get the writing rolling again, up pops suggestive streaming app Songza with the required inspiration.Unusually though, it isn’t the service’s music...
View ArticleOn Spotify’s Train Wreck Recommendations
Back in secondary school, resting on one’s laurels would earn the dreaded “Must try harder!” remark from the teacher. Fast forward to 2014 and that’s exactly the treatment that hardcore music listeners...
View ArticleQuick Cuts: The Gaslight Anthem – ‘Get Hurt’
Release dates have all but faded into music industry history, to my mind. There was a time, probably not so long ago as it now feels,when I’d scour the release schedule – particularly at the start of...
View ArticleU2 and the End of Push Marketing in Music
Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the nadir. Push marketing of music can go no lower. Last week U2 and Apple, under cover of hype, conspired to Like Santa, if he chose to deliver only one gift to...
View ArticleHappy New Year (or Begin Again, Again)
Well it’s been a good three months (that’s bad) since last I wrote here, so any summing up of the year gone by seems redundant. I can still wish you and yours a Happy New Year, however. And I do,...
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