Tag: music industry

• Breaking the Circle These women are playing for huge crowds who love them

  April 21, 2019

  But in the 1930s, the Brazilian government began to recognize the power of samba, and looked to co-opt it as part of a new, unified national identity. The music once… more ›

• The global value of music copyright topped $28bn in 2017

  April 17, 2019

  What is the global value of music copyright? This intriguing question was addressed by Music Business Worldwide for calendar years 2014, 2015 and 2016; and we can now reveal the… more ›

• ‘Be urself’: meet the teens creating a generation gap in music

  April 17, 2019

  It is a disconcerting experience to look at your tweenage daughter’s Spotify playlists and realise that you have never heard of any of the artists. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/29/be-urself-meet-the-teens-creating-a-generation-gap-in-music more ›

• Anderson .Paak: ‘People are like – Damn! How are you not on crack cocaine right now?’

  April 13, 2019

  Some musicians have the misfortune to discover, at a certain point in their careers, that it is possible to lose everything. Anderson .Paak had learned this harsh lesson twice over… more ›

• Roc Marciano, the Man Who Would Be King

  April 9, 2019

  Roc Marciano’s biggest goal isn’t to achieve the riches that mainstream success brings, or to go platinum. He just really wants to score films. https://www.complex.com/music/2019/04/roc-marciano-profile more ›

• When the Web Loses Its Memory

  April 4, 2019

  Diana poured her passionate fandom into Thorvaenn, her Tumblr account, for years. Marvel and Thor in particular became the primary focus for the GIFs she made, for her meticulous recommendations,… more ›

• Warner Signs Algorithm to Record Deal

  March 26, 2019

  Skip to main contentTagsSigningIndustry NewsVideoWTF https://pitchfork.com/news/warner-signs-algorithm-to-record-deal/ more ›

• SoundCrowd: Tokenizing & Collectivizing Soundcloud

  March 21, 2019

  I’ve been thinking about this a lot since the recent, somewhat unsurprising, news of Soundcloud’s troubles. My intention is to put these thoughts out there, but also to run a… more ›

• Protocols: Duty, Despair and Decentralisation transcript

  March 21, 2019

  Just dumping the transcript from this talk given at CTM:Persistence here, if you prefer to read stuff. The end gets messy as it was largely adlibbed. Gratitude to Liz Pelly,… more ›

• Changing the Face (and Sound) of Rap

  January 5, 2019

  “TIK TOK,” a zippy and salacious celebration of late nights and mornings-after by a new artist named Ke$ha, has spent the last few weeks zooming toward the top of the… more ›