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Love It Or Loathe It, Learn To Live It: Musicians Must Be Entrepreneurs
Suits You Sir: Can you play the music game? The business of music is often anathema to artists. Equal parts strategy and schmoozing, some do one well but fall down on the other. Whatever strengths an...
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Ch-ch-changes
Breaking out of my bubble(Image Credit: Las Vegas Cosmopolitan) As some of you may know, for several years I wrote about the other side of music… you know, the side where you just listen and enjoy,...
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Quick Cuts: Typhoon – ‘Young Fathers’
“Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.” Ever true, not a month flows by that I don’t find some song that captures my mood and comes to define a certain moment or period. As a part of my...
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Rough Trade NYC: Branding, Fan Experience and the Polarisation of Music Sales
“The internet has polarised record stores,” says Rough Trade East’s store director Stephen Godfroy. “At one end of the spectrum you have the complete commoditisation of music, and at the other end the...
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Led Zep, Beyoncé, and Why Neither’s News Matters to Independent Musicians
In short, they’re big news, yet old news. They made their names at a time when the game was completely different and can trade off their superstar status until they’re gone. How many up and coming...
View ArticleChange 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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