The Product is Music |
Around the various music online sites, some of the discussion is focussing on new ways in which music listeners are going to be consuming music, more specifically: new ways in which artists are going ...
Posted by Ridinghood on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:24:00 PST |
The Record R.I.P. |
At a recent Q&A session organised by the WMF, the venerable Keith Harris (whose CV includes stints managing Stevie Wonder and running Motown) made the frankly provocative statement that the music indu...
Posted by Ridinghood on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:24:00 PST |
Scritti Politti (Aqua vs. Radiohead) |
A few more stray thoughts on the discussion that was held at: http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/02/12/aqua-radiohead/In my early teens, I was deeply engrossed in bands like Foetus, Einsturzende Neuba...
Posted by Ridinghood on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:26:00 PST |
Aqua yes, Radiohead no |
The genius of Radiohead lies in their ability to market their mainstream music as underground art. They are the Starbucks of the underground. They target music lovers who have never been able to get t...
Posted by Ridinghood on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:04:00 PST |
Aqua vs Radiohead |
In response to a blog over at www.newmusicstrategies.com I innocently typed in the sentence: In case anyone is still in doubt as to the confusion that is rife with regards to aesthetic standards:...
Posted by Ridinghood on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:25:00 PST |
The Democratization of the Music Industry (Part 7) |
The Sixties In the field of popular music, the Sixties have come to be regarded as the pre-eminently brilliant decade of the twentieth century. Compared to our current age, one would surely have to ad...
Posted by Ridinghood on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:19:00 PST |
The Democratization of the Music Industry (Part 6) |
Art is hard The creative process is, of course, not miraculous. (Although it might seem so to Axl.) The conventions and creative limitations that constitute an art form can be easily explained. Anyone...
Posted by Ridinghood on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:10:00 PST |
The Democratization of the Music Industry (Part 5) |
Guns 'n' RosesI am certain that Axl Rose did not study literature, although, in his case, even if he had, I remain unconvinced that he would have thought better of writing, in the opening line of 'Swe...
Posted by Ridinghood on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:50:00 PST |
The Democratization of the Music Industry (Part 4) |
In former ages artists understood that their work of art's effectiveness was significantly enhanced if audiences were kept in the dark as to the process of its creation, not unlike magicians, who refu...
Posted by Ridinghood on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:33:00 PST |
The Democratization of the Music Industry (Part 3) |
In the early days, when making a record, record companies relied on the concerted efforts of trained artists.Regardless of whether you were hired as a musician, singer, songwriter, lyricist, arranger ...
Posted by Ridinghood on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:29:00 PST |
