This seems to come up over and over again: Is Starbucks really a viable launching pad for a new album? Well, I’m not any closer to figuring it out. With over 7000 company owned locations worldwide (15,000+ overall) as of Q4 2007, you’d think a CD with ubiquitous distribution in the company’s stores would sell like venti mochachinos. Read more »
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I’m tired of hearing about the decline of the music industry. Today, listeners are BOMBARDED by more ways than ever to experience their favorite artists as well as having near endless options to discover new music. This all means m.o.n.e.y. Read more »
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Just some random thoughts as I peruse the week’s articles…
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as a player…once you reach the age of 30 (+)…if you’d like to keep your self respect/sanity. Read more »
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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/10/22/071022crmu_music_frerejones
In May, I went with a friend to see the Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire perform at the United Palace, a gilded rococo church in Washington Heights that seats more than three thousand and doubles as a theatre. The band was playing to a noisily receptive crowd during what has been a very successful year. Arcade Fire’s latest album, “Neon Bible,” which was released here in March, has sold more than three hundred thousand copies—an impressive number for an indie band during an industry-wide sales slump—and the group was on its second visit to New York in three months. Read more »
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I’ve decided to coin another term use to describe the vast majority of serious indie acts - “The Music Middle Class”, or MMC for short. Picture a sponge cake put in the oven at 500 degrees, then taken out after 10 minutes. On the outside you have the burnt crust - the major label acts - zero innovation, zero inertia, way too fucking overdone. In the middle of the cake you have the batter or the “goo” representing the hobbyists, the amateurs and the wedding singers. Just not positioned well enough in the cake to really cook. Read more »
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In America, we have two sets of laws. (Some would agure more, yes.) Those that apply to citizens, and those that apply to corporations. It really sucks that large for-profit organizations can apply reprehensible policies that directly conflict with the ideals of our founding fathers and then, upon eventual backlash, diffuse accountability through publicists. Read more »
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This is a full reprint of an article that was set to post in LA Times’ music column last week. Applauding the benefits of Prince’s recent UK paper deal (see previous posts), the article was yanked by management to avoid a backlash by the major labels. Free speech my ass. Just another morally ambiguous business decision left to go unchecked in Bush’s America. God bless us every one. Read more »
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