Editorial

According to Bobby Borg’s article in Music Connection Magazine Vol. XXVII, No. 03, you probably are too old for a typical mainstream recording career. Major labels tend to favor artists in the 18-25 age groups. Why? Because as one A…

Curt Rosengren, whose weblog has become a daily must-read for me, highlights an article about factors that can inhibit your creativity. Two big a-ha’s: to be creative, you must tell yourself you are creative; you must also give yourself the…

Diane Rappaport has posted an article at Just Plain Folks that’s essential reading. “There are two parallel music universes, one imploding, the other growing healthier. Growing numbers of major label business professionals that are finding themselves out of work in…

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A group of our colleagues share notes on why — despite all its guilty pleasures — American Idol is rotting our industry from the inside out.

Andre Grey from DEMO has posted one of the most concise, coherent explanations of the current state of music commerce. I don’t know that I agree with him about how swiftly this will happen (I think it will take a…

You heard me! Whenever folks get in front of an FCC panel to rant about the state of radio, invariably someone gets upset about the lack of independent music on major market radio playlists. We should be upset about radio…

Ha! Suddenly, Sub Pop Records has rediscovered its sense of humor, with this parody of Pitchfork Media and scattered references to new services like the “Ass-Kick of the Month Club.”

Okay, a TEN HOUR ALBUM is way too indulgent. This is why ProTools has the Edit function. /rant

Following an outdated link on a band site, I swung by the discussion boards at MP3.com the other day. It strikes me as sheer lunacy that a number of otherwise talented folks are sitting around waiting for some other company…

Another illustration of why we’re going exclusively with CDBaby in 2004. This is the kind of company that people laughed at in the nineties. It’s (relatively) low tech, but high touch. Instead of investing zillions in offshore servers like other…

Dunno, but so much is summed up in this bulletin board posting.