I came across the music blog music think tank last night and found an essay by Rhodri Marsden entitled Please Buy My Record: The Futility of Flogging Music. [Flogging is an English expression for selling.] I encourage all musicians to give it a read. Here’s an excerpt -
One thing that nearly all my bands [...]
In one of those random and yet surgically precise ways I electronically met Howard Wolfson yesterday. Wolfson was Communications Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and is currently continuing his career as a political commentator for Fox News. He also runs a music blog, Gotham Acme, that I learned about by reading an article [...]
The New York Times reports - LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46. R.I.P.
Here’s Ian back in 2007 extolling on his ideas of what exactly musicians should be doing when they think about releasing a CD. Example: He says why are you touring to support the release of the CD? The CD should be released to support the touring Mackaye says. Good point. Thanks to Rodger at Strange [...]
The UK’s Independent newspaper asks the question. It’s too long of an article to summarize efficiently so I encourage you to read it here and then discuss.
Also I’ll send a free Gang of Four 7″ single with a Shepard Fairey artwork cover to the person that tells me what the image above is parodying [...]
David Gutowski is the man behind the music blog Largehearted Boy. He recently contacted me to ask if I would be interested in submitting my thoughts in writing for a new area of his blog entitled Why Obama. It is a series of guest essays by musicians and authors, where they share their support for [...]
As CNet reports today, Hollywood and YouTube may be edging towards their own version of Pax Romana. Meanwhile, beyond the learned walls of the law courts and Google’s battle with Viacom, we here at Social Cache have been scratching our heads over Viacom’s position.
Obviously Viacom is up in arms over what it argues is [...]
My Online Marketing Presentation About Radiohead from iaintait on Vimeo.
If every musician or music group could operate at this level, and every major record label could have had the brains and the courage to sign more bands like Radiohead, the industry would be huge and stable, unlike it is today.