What kind of crazy, f*cked up world do we live in where Taylor Swift leaves country for Top Forty and Beyoncé leaves Top Forty for country? One in which the story is almost always about the personality and the money but almost never about the music itself. There’s a lot to say about Beyoncé. Her […]

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“How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?”:  “The Guardian”: https://shorturl.at/mCIJ6 This is what I hate about America, it’s all about self-interest, people believe they’re entitled to a living, and the truth is irrelevant. Mr. Krukowski was in the band Galaxie 500. Their albums were released by Rough Trade. Assuming the label gave […]

I’m surprised there’s something here. That’s how far we’ve come, or fallen. When there’s a bidding war over an artist, when we start reading about it in the trades, it’s usually dismissible, a youngster in a traditional genre spewing generalities. But that’s not Dasha. I’ll be honest, I only heard about her a few days […]