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Back in October, Marnie Stern’s dense guitar, frenetic energy, and songcraft grabbed my attention. While sounding of her time, she also sounded unique and fresh. I made a mental note of her, but didn’t investigate further until coming across a recent article by Sasha Frere-Jones in the New Yorker (Jan 3, 2011). The article introduces [...]
In the arts and entertainment world, you often heard it said, “If you can’t take criticism, you shouldn’t be in the business.” This is largely true, but is often abused or misconstrued as a means of justifying outright mean behavior. To clarify, insightful critical analysis delivered in a *nonthreatening environment, generally as a feature of an [...]
I have not read Nathan Rabin’s new memoir The Big Rewind, but I did read and enjoy his recent A.V. Club blog post about his experience as a first-time author. It deals not with getting published or creating the book itself, but with the process of putting out his book. The article’s intended audience are those first-time [...]
A topic that’s been coming up a lot lately among the musically concerned is filtering (the process by which music makes its way from a musician’s living room to the awareness of the wider public). For most of our contemporary history filtering has involved record labels, managers, venues, broadcasting directors, publicists etc… Audiences chose from those [...]
Previously I linked an interview with Seth Godin about the music industry. One of the questions got me thinking again about whether or not there is any point to releasing a physical CD, or is that format on its quick way out? Here’s what Godin says: R&G: With the a la carte downloads offered by [...]
Here’s an interesting interview about the music industry with Seth Godin at Rollo & Grady. Godin is a marketing guru known for such books as Purple Cow and Unleashing the Ideavirus (which I read and liked). His latest book is Tribes. Here’s the interview: http://www.rollogrady.com/rollo-grady-interview-seth-godin/ What he says isn’t necessarily new to anyone who spends [...]
I read an interesting article by Miles Rayner in this week’s Chicago Reader Sharp Darts column. It’s about the glutony that is 00′s digital music consumption, and, more importantly, what some people are doing about it. Like the self-imposed music-listening regimine journalist Michaelangelo Matos calls the “Slow Listening Movement”. The idea is to create a strict diet [...]
