As rumours continue that a well-known indie is potentially heading for a sale to a major, I wrote a few thoughts on indie sales in general, and how we're going to see more and more of it. Read on below...
I wrote a few thoughts about how we now need action more than just words if we are to prevent the majors swallowing the music industry whole. But there are companies out there bringing options, and so there are options. It's not all bad, I promise!! Read on below...
I wrote a few words about how the Universal/Downtown situation is getting personal, but that it really misses one pretty fundamental point. Read on below!
This didn't come as a shock; more of an "I knew it!" kind of sentiment, but hats off to London Centric for confirming what I think Londoners sensed was the case.
Inspired by a JonWayne video I watched, I wrote a few words about how we in the music industry might be focusing on the wrong places to build audiences that might actually drive sales and revenue. Dive in below...
That, my friends, is how to write brilliantly. Zachary Lipez, take a bow! 🙌🏻👏🏻
"Teenagers – a recently invented term for a class that had previously been a source of cheap farm labour, whose numbers were determined by luck, vermin, and a Papal workaround known as the rhythm method – were, all of a sudden, the judge, jury, and executioners of culture."
"Once upon a time, during what was not so much a “golden age” as an ejaculatory age of denim and leather (and occasionally lace), there was no higher human aspiration than to “rock”."
The turns of phrase in this AC/DC piece elevate it to high art. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Someone give this piece ALL THE AWARDS. I shall share two examples....
A rare exclusive today, detailing how NTS has taken out a loan with Universal that, if defaulted on, will see the major taking ownership of the entire NTS business: properties, IP, the lot. Not a great development for the indie music landscape.
I wrote a few thoughts about how I feel Universal is, if anything, battling to remain relevant amid changing times and a fundamental shift in where the power sits in the music space - that is, solely with the artists. More below…👇🏻
Do, it's a gem!
Here's a sentence I never saw myself typing today: that new Hawkwind album is magnificent. Absolutely loving it. album.link/gb/i/1799083...
I'd imagine at some point that all has to break though. The money isn't endless - especially now that the world economy is getting hauled over the coals. Something will give there.
Yeah, and that's the real issue for me. It's doing good things! But it's been sold as some kind of all-pervading thing that should be in every corner of our lives, and that's just nonsense. It reveals the trenchant greed of Big Tech.
Fair enough
Yep, but I don't see them as wholly negative either. Hence my point in my piece really; they do a load of harm, but they also do have some positive uses. Much like computers. I don't really buy into that view that they're unilaterally bad. They're just being wildly overstated and forced on us all.
I feel like there's a bunch of leaps there but I get what you're saying. I mean, if you post AI shite day in day out for clout on here then... you're wasting a lot of good life 😆 But I don't think it's as b&w as "using AI is bad". But I don't think that's what you're saying?
What's the "agree to disagree" on that? I wouldn't disagree with that at all, LOL
I wrote a few words about the music industry and AI. And whilst I think some people would rather stick a fork in their eye than read another post about AI, I'd argue that this piece is recognising that, and calling for a bit of calm amid the constant doom-mongering. Read on below...
These people sound like AWESOME fun to be around. Proper "tell me you fall for every TikTok trend going without actually saying so" vibes. Anyways, BRB: just off o 'biohack' myself into relaxation with 4 pints of Moretti. #OKthanks
There needs to be some kind of "saw them at the Underworld in '92 and they were just OK" bot to respond to posts like this.
I've heard that people have almost gone blind if they get sap in the eye. Gardening: more dangerous than you think 😆
Entirely tangential but this is reminding me of gardening and getting sap from Euphorbia on my skin. Didn't realise it totally kills the skin's ability to deadly with UV, causing blistering in the areas where it touched you (and which then see UV on them). Nasty plant!
Good uses of AI? OK - how about having it create an image of Brian Blessed as an 80s rapper? You're welcome.
Man that sounds like anyone's worst nightmare. I really don't get these forced obsolescence policies; your response to it is entirely normal and expected, so how are they a win for anyone?
