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Kneebody + Busdriver: Why Horns Matter
One of my favorite thought-experiments of late comes from some Darcy James Argue-quilled Secret Society program notes: “What if every time you turned on the radio, everyone from T-Pain to Rihanna to Katy Perry was backed by a big band? What if Animal Collective and Vampire Weekend and MGMT all had 13-piece horn sections? What if ...
Hating Pandora Today, Loving It Tomorrow
I hate you. I've had an iPod Touch now for several months. The experience is astoundingly unlike my former iPod. Years ago, blinded by choice, I may have listened to the same artists and songs more than I realized, but back then, I still made real decisions. Sometimes while sitting. Sometimes while driving. Always spinning my ...
Wow, YouTube Really Thinks We're That Stupid...
Sorry, the gig is up on free music. It isn't making bands rich, or even making ends meet, for that matter. If you need proof of this, check out this discussion thread about Spotify—it contains real numbers and testimonials about how paltry the payouts on free access are. It's not just Lady Gaga that's getting the ...
Defining Success: What It Means to "Make It"
This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. Throughout my young music career, I've encountered far too many people obsessed with this idea of “making it big"—of becoming some sort of popular music star; with the word “big" associated with attaining a high degree of fame. For these people, how much closer they are ...
Why Any Seat at Music Hack Day is More Valuable Than a Front Row Ticket to the Grammys
“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes." - Jason Epstein, The New York Review Of Books Epstein's ...
The Historical Accident of Artists Getting Paid...
Is the era of artists getting handsomely paid for their work over? Or, getting paid at all, for that matter? Was it just a fleeting moment that's now getting handed back? “You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money," Francis Ford Coppola recently expressed ...
Why the Decline of MySpace is Great for Musicians
This post is by Robin Davey of The Hoax and The Bastard Fairies. Interview. Before you could say “We're big on Myspace," it seems the foundations of this once burgeoning oasis of digital discovery have quickly crumbled. These days, it actually closer resembles an online Salton Sea. In retrospect and with hindsight we have to ask ...
Personally, I Don't Care if There is Another MySpace.
This is part two of my interview with Robin Davey. He is a musician, director, and producer. His bands include The Hoax and most recently the eclectic pop duo The Bastard Fairies. Davey has directed music videos and an award-winning documentary. In this interview he talks about how focusing on core fans grew his audience and why he thinks MySpace is in terminal decline. ...
"As Things Stand Now, Digital Music Has Failed."
That “delightful" quote comes from Forrester Research analyst Mark Mulligan. In a recent article in the New York Times, he states, “We are at one of the most worrying stages yet for the industry. As things stand now, digital music has failed." An entire decade is behind us and there hasn't been much progress. Record company ...
