I’ve been reluctant to even mention the really obviously fake chart performances of fake AI music lately. I have no wish to accidentally give these fucks even that much publicity.
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Category: Industry
And it’s-a-one for the money, two for the money.
Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?
At least Songtradr, unlike Epic, is in the same business.
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Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.
You’ve never heard of current pop stars because they aren’t actually popular in mainstream culture.
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Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.
The black hit of space.
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Links: Virtual Reality still useless, why vinyl was bad, the Problem with Music gets tha roni, Nile Rodgers.
Here in the plague, I’m bored enough to write about music again, for my beloved audience of about a hundred. How are you all?
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2019 in music: your comprehensive and reliable global guide.
The punishment of luxury is in the air for all to see. And it’s ugly now, and it’s getting worse every day. Hey! Hey! Hey!
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Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?
Suspended in gaffer.
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Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.
The Threatin story is this week’s winner.
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Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy
I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …
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Links: eMusic can’t pay its bills, nobody buys CDs, catalogue prices, majors upset Spotify not rolling out the red carpet.
Welcome to the music industry! Here’s your accordion.
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eMusic releases its blockchain ICO plan! … it’s not very good.
eMusic’s plan: 1. Collect a large pile of money. 2. Write an all-new music platform that does everything! 3. Pay people in eMusic magic beans.
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Links: Windowing is passé, piracy lawyers go to jail, MP3 “restoration,” Damo Suzuki.
I blame the delay on blockchain. Taking a while between confirmations.
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Links: Albini on In Utero (again), the inbox flood, Level Music, blockchains (again).
“We’ll save music on the blockchain!” Ethereum can’t scale up to cat pictures.
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HARKII Of Sound Mind podcast Episode 1: “Why I don’t think blockchain will change the music industry.”
In which I go on a podcast and talk about why blockchains are still trash, particularly for music. Don’t fall for resentment-based marketing!
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Links: High-Definition Vinyl, Brian Hooper RIP, Eventbrite’s we-take-all ticketing contract.
At least Twitter reaps a bountiful harvest these days.
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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.
The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.
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Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment.
It looks like eMusic’s attempt at a comeback last year didn’t work out so well. Behold: the eMusic Blockchain Platform! … a Kodak moment indeed.
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Links: Chapter Music, Damned Industrial top 20, ZynAddSubFx terms, iTunes shutdown, vinyl clog.
Yes, I’m still here. More exciting things from the big world!
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Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.
Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!
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Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.
More fun in the big world.
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Björkcoin: Björk’s cryptocurrency album project dissected (impolite ranty version).
My restrained and professional assessment of the incompetence and stupidity all through the Björk cryptocurrency project was reasonably popular and widely read. This expanded version adds what I was actually thinking when writing up this collapse board cascade of slapstick coded-by-dildo incompetence.
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Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.
The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.
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Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain: EGO by RAC.
Today’s post, over on the blockchain blog, is about Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that yet again they fall down the stairs, hitting their head on every step on the way down.
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Links: Simon Draper, music industry sexism, US piracy site bans, punk rock presidential daughter.
and thank you Twitter
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Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.
You can guess who makes it big from streaming, and it’s not Spotify.
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Links: Rap as poetry; labels as services; where are all the pirates?
And Dave Graney on video, just because.
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YouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again.
I feel like I’m giving away the game here by revealing the truth to the terminally incompetent, but good Lord this is ridiculous.
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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.
And PlayMobil Joy Division.
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Entertainment on the blockchain with ICOs: Opus, Viberate’s convicted felon adviser, Kim Dotcom.
1. Steal underpants. 2. ICO. 3. Profit!
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How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.
You’d think people running a business would do things that would make money and have them still be around next year. But, welcome to music!
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