January 2012
15 posts
The Post-Ownership Music Industry Part 2: Job Descriptions of our Heroes and the Evolution of Listening to Vs. Owning Music
As a ’90s kid, I’ve always looked down on artists who don’t write their own songs (except for genre-bending covers.) But that’s naive. For most of music history music hasn’t been written by performers.
speeches yesterday and the order in which i paid attention to them (a haiku)
State of the Union
Republican rebuttal
Romney ‘prebuttal’
Santorum is the Tebow of the Republican Field
A Non-Profit Record Label?
Can a very indie label pay it’s artists? By not making a profit?
Kind of continued from my last post…
“Espresso should be:
sweet as love; black as night; and
as hot as all hell.” —Enrico Beretta
sweet as love; black as night; and
as hot as all hell.” —Enrico Beretta
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“I thought tomorrow
Was yesterday. Turns out it
Was the day before.” —
Was yesterday. Turns out it
Was the day before.” —
Better Late Than Never: Matt's Top 10 Albums of 2011
Here you go Gumshoes. Sorry for the late notice.
A Rock Band in the Post-Ownership Music Industry
it’s not a coincidence that the heyday of hip-hop samples was followed up by Napster or that the success of Girltalk is being followed by Spotify. Each represents a distinct step in the way that we think about music ownership. These are the sorts of things that you think about when
