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'It Seems Like Major Labels Are Run by Pedophiles.'
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Quotes from the 2011 EMP Pop Conference: “Don't be under the impression that [major labels] have any concern for what anyone on this panel, or most of the people we know, do. It seems like it's run by pedophiles trying to push the next ring tone." - David Sitek Moby: 'Major Labels Should Just Die': “I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die... There was a time when the music business was incredibly monolithic and there were ...
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Will Lady Gaga End the Music Business? (Again...)
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This post is by Robin Davey of The Hoax and The Bastard Fairies. Interview. Lady Gaga isn't holding back, her new record is coming out and she wants everyone to know. With the fastest selling number one in iTunes history, and her new video amping up hits on Vevo, it seems an unstoppable force. Right? Well to me it stinks of everything that was bad about the old industry and continues that predisposed self-destructive bent. You remember the one that imploded when CD's didn't sell ...
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How Music Criticism Influences Fan Opinion
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"Bitter attitudes are surprisingly common in the trade; music journalists who play the part of hard-bitten cynics think their sarcasm lends authority to their opinions, when in fact it adds meanness to what should be a lighthearted game. There's nothing wrong with offering criticism and hard truths—that's part of the job—but at the end of the day people don't want to learn the reasons to hate something, they want to be turned on to something good..." - John Roderick, Seatle Weekly. Do ...
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What is the Next Big Thing in Jazz?
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
The music scene changes and at what point do we wake up and say, “things are different?" Probably a few years ago. In strictly musical terms however, the hundreds of jazz releases coming out every month, some produced in quantities of 300 or less, make for an almost impossible task for one person to evaluate. None of us can hear all of them, nor I suppose would we want to. The possibility of missing something seminally important is real, but ...
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Striking the Chord - Why Lyricists Matter
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Lyricists possess the ability to distill complex situations and emotions into sixteen syllable couplets. Most importantly, they possess the capacity to strike a chord in us, the listener. Why is that? Lyricists cut themselves deep down, often just for the sake of seeing themselves bleed. For some, writing is medication. Releasing that inner tension gives them room to breathe. For others, their writing is infliction. They feel their words—every single one. The knife in their side is twisted out of ...
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Unions-Bah! What Are They Good For?
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
This past weekend, the motley musical crowd I play with-The Second Line Social Aid Pleasure Society Brass Band (SLSAPS)- played at a rally at the MA State House in support of Wisconsin unions-and unions everywhere(put into decent context here) and at a rally for the Student Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Maybe it was being around so many scrufulous people, or trying to play with frozen chops, but the whole weekend really turned around my attitude about ...
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Peace
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Dear Brilliant Corners peeps,. Matt Lavelle here.Anybody that has spent any time with me here on B.C. It's mad appreciated. My time here,.is at an end. Brother Chris Rich gave me my start as a writer by hooking me up right here on B.C. Chris suggested I become a regular contributor and then hooked me up further creating a focus on me,.and then Steve.This is where I publicly cut my teeth writing about Jazz,.and more and more,.about life.My Grammar,flow,and punctuation ...
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News Flash: Your Music is Not Your Product
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This post is by singer / songwriter Jeff Macdougall (@jeffmacdougall). I'm tired. I'm tired of having the same conversation over and over again. The conversation about how we should go about dealing with “thieves" and “pirates" “stealing" our “product" like so many shoplifters. I'm just gonna say it. It's absurd. Music is not, and never was, a product. When a label executive tells you that they are “not in the business of selling discs," (or vinyl, tape, t-shirts, etc.) and ...
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