Admittedly, it’s far simpler to assess the terminal virus shared by record labels (see my previous post) than it is to predict what will rise to take their place. Given the Internet and 3G/4G iphones continue to be the lifelines for those in the connected generation, then I’m underplaying things to say there will be a vast interstellar galactic shift in music promotion and distribution ahead. Tangible change is already [ Read More ]
A call to the halls of Congress: as you bail out the banks and institutions that have been part of the problem, consider dropping a few million to another problem child, the U.S. pop-music industry. Once considered a stalwart up there with General Motors, the industry that cranked out those terribly terrific top ten tunes since mom and dad hit adolescence has now slipped into Alzheimer’s and can’t remember how [ Read More ]
To read what’s out on the web, it appears a surprising number of brake mechanics have made their way into the music industry (see previous post). Surely, the web commentators say, we have a level-6 pandemic on our hands. There are blog lamenters like djaroma out of Berlin [myspace]: “Listening to so much music this afternoon, longing for some new tunes, and all I hear is so predictable…everything is sort [ Read More ]
I’m certain I’m committing an unpardonable sin of prejudice, but if a car mechanic said he was a composer, then I’d turn and run to have my rotors and pads done at another shop. [Sound effects: car speeding off into the distance] I confess, in my prejudiced mind there’s just too much of a gap between the never-vary-from-the-book approach for a safe brake job and the never-the-same approach for good [ Read More ]
