Tag: music industry

• Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind

  June 12, 2020

  In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses mortality, drawing inspiration from the past, and his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”A few years ago, sitting beneath shade trees… more ›

• The Red Hand Files

  May 2, 2020

  The great beauty of contemporary music, and what gives it its edge and vitality, is its devil-may-care attitude toward appropriation — everybody is grabbing stuff from everybody else, all the… more ›

• Music Publishing Glossary

  April 28, 2020

  https://www.songtrust.com/music-publishing-glossary more ›

• Ten Things You May Not Have Known About Ghostface Killah’s Classic ‘Supreme Clientele’ Album

  February 7, 2020

  In the year 1999, the empire that was built by the Wu-Tang Clan was crumbling. After two years of sub-par solo efforts it seemed like the Clan’s best days were… more ›

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”

  December 1, 2019

  Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele,… more ›

• Ludmilla Teixeira, la riposte à Bolsonaro

  November 21, 2019

  PortraitFéministes ! (4/6). Sa lutte contre le président brésilien, « mysogine de la pire espèce », l’a propulsée comme figure de proue de la contestation citoyenne. A travers les réseaux sociaux,… more ›

• The Record Label of The Future is No Label At All

  November 3, 2019

  Spotify’s announcement of Anchor and Gimlet seemed inevitable given the companies quest to dominate all things audio. In his blog post on the acquisition, Audio-First, Daniel Ek stated: https://medium.com/@denishakuhlor/the-record-label-of-the-future-is-no-label-at-all-75a0b52a4995 more ›

• FKA twigs: ‘An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate’

  September 28, 2019

  FKA twigs lives in a real house, in the real world, though this seems hard to believe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/28/fka-twigs-in-shadow-of-man-robert-pattinson-surgery-new-album-miranda-sawyer more ›

• Pop’s need for speed: ‘You have to drop new stuff constantly’

  September 19, 2019

  The music industry in 2019, says Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, could be compared to a Pez dispenser. He is not talking about big heads – rather, the seemingly endless, instantly… more ›

• Urbano Reached Critical Mass in 2018. Now Can It Be Normalized?

  September 14, 2019

  Cardi B’s Instagram typically serves as a roving press conference on personal matters, quelling rumors of infidelity or amplifying existing beefs. But on a recent live video, she addressed dembow… more ›