Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Harry Styles At The Forum

It’s the girls who know how to have a good time. Boys think they control the show. That they are the inheritors of the scene. That they’re what makes it all go forward. But women are the grease, without them the engine doesn’t turn, and the engine was humming last night! So it’s a secret. […]

Article 13 (And The So-Called Value Gap)

I’m against it. That’s right, I could say I’m with the industry and have my inbox overflow, but that’s not how I feel. You can’t hold back the future. Enough with the “value gap.” The truth is songs are streamed more on Spotify than they are on YouTube these days. Furthermore, YouTube gives people a […]

Snail Mail

Spotify YouTube I ignored the hype. But then I got hooked by the banner on Spotify. Oh, you can turn it off. Over to the right, in grey, it says “Hide Announcements,” and then these banners will disappear, but do you want them to? I don’t want to read another story of a musician wise […]

Balkanization

Record companies used to have a formula, they’d cross tracks over from one format to another, ultimately ending up on Top 40 radio. That doesn’t happen anymore. Prior to the Beatles the music business was a backwater. Of course we listened, but there wasn’t that much money in recordings, music was the land of uneducated, […]