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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:38 +0000

It’s an odd world indeed in which Cheryl Cole fills in for...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:11:30 +0000

It’s an odd world indeed in which Cheryl Cole fills in for Martha Wainwright. Verdict: not brilliant, but not bad either.

"Sting is right in what he says about The X Factor. If I was a TV commissioner, I wouldn’t take..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:31:10 +0000

“Sting is right in what he says about The X Factor. If I was a TV commissioner, I wouldn’t take the show off the air, but I’d put on one that showcases new songwriting talent, featuring unique voices. Doing covers, impersonating other artists should not be the only option or goal to aspire to.”

- Behind the music: Peter Gabriel on the future of the industry | Music | guardian.co.uk

"The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:28:59 +0000

“The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” isn’t the right question anymore—starting today, we’ve shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, “What’s happening?””

- Twitter Blog: What’s Happening?

"Sure, those with large followings have a lot of people receiving their messages but, and this is the..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:07:08 +0000

“Sure, those with large followings have a lot of people receiving their messages but, and this is the mistake people who come from a broadcast background always make, that doesn’t mean they’re actually listening. Nor does it mean they’re going to act.”

- Influence is weird « ASH-10

"The reason they want you to fit in is that once you do, then they can ignore you."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:02:55 +0000

“The reason they want you to fit in is that once you do, then they can ignore you.”

- Seth Godin (via anunreliablewitness)

loopier: The illustration to the most recent of a series...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:02:27 +0000

loopier:

The illustration to the most recent of a series (first, second) of moving and fascinating posts about making music, art and minds. YoungMinds in particular.

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"The joy of creating something out of nothing and giving that to people far outweighs any desire to..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:39:14 +0000

“The joy of creating something out of nothing and giving that to people far outweighs any desire to make money. We operate on a torn and tattered shoestring at the best of times, but that just goes to show the level of commitment between us all. We love what we do and want you to have the opportunity to experience it. What would be the point in doing it otherwise?”

- THE CURSE OF THE MIRROR WICKED (EP)) - LUPEN CROOK & THE MURDERBIRDS - - -

The view from above - pixeldiva

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:31:38 +0000

The view from above - pixeldiva

"Fame is the downside to success. Don’t be taken in by a dead industry that doesn’t care about your..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:44:16 +0000

““Fame is the downside to success. Don’t be taken in by a dead industry that doesn’t care about your music, but instead wants you to be famous.””

- Transformative Vs Incremental Change. - MTT - Music Think Tank

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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:17:39 +0000

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"We’ve been watching the ping pong, back and forth, for nearly a decade now. ‘Filesharing..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:12:19 +0000

“We’ve been watching the ping pong, back and forth, for nearly a decade now. ‘Filesharing hurts!’, ‘Filesharing helps!’, ‘It hurts a little!’, ‘It hurts a lot!’, ‘It both hurts and helps a little?’ Good studies are appropriated by opposing sides, reduced to slogans and then rendered meaningless. Even if the entertainment business could wave a magic wand and end unauthorised use of its content, it would face many of the same crisis questions. How much of the legacy business was dependent on market inefficiencies that won’t come back (paying $18 for a CD when the customer wants only one song)? How much is free, legal listening (Spotify) cutting into purchases (iTunes, CDs)? […] Piracy was/is only one expression of a much more fundamental problem: the customer can choose to pay or choose not to pay. You could call it An Inconvenient Music Truth.”

- Eric Garland of BigChampagne, quoted in Behind the music: Can we ever measure the impact of downloading? | Music | guardian.co.uk

"Mubla 2.0 is what it says on the tin – music made in front of you. It’s a complete journey of music..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:48:24 +0000

“Mubla 2.0 is what it says on the tin – music made in front of you. It’s a complete journey of music creation. You’ll see us start with next to nothing and hopefully finish with a complete album – professionally mixed and mastered. Along the way we’ll be documenting everything it’s physically possible to document and making it available to you exclusively on robandkal.com. Mubla 2.0 is music made in front of you and it’s a journey we hope you’ll join us on.”

- Mubla 2.0 | Rob and Kal

"If you wish to be reliably rewarded for your music, then get employed to make music as your job. If..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:45:45 +0000

“If you wish to be reliably rewarded for your music, then get employed to make music as your job. If you want to make the music that moves you, that will hopefully create meaning for people, and that will perhaps earn you a sustainable living, then you have chosen risk, and you will have to be as smart with the entrepreneurship as you are with the music if you want to survive and thrive. The odds are stacked against you. History is littered with musicians who are disillusioned, embittered and broke. This was true before the internet just as it’s true now. The internet is neither your saviour, nor your enemy.”

- 9 out of 10 dentists - MTT - Music Think Tank

Lo! A Monster Is Born

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:42:49 +0000

Lo! A Monster Is Born:

Via Transpontine.

"I wanted to look at another way of presenting music rather than just putting on a show,” said..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:41:17 +0000

““I wanted to look at another way of presenting music rather than just putting on a show,” said Cocker. “Can it work in an art gallery? Will people come along?””

- Jarvis Cocker sets up three-day gallery gig to break down barriers | Music | The Guardian

"Little girls will stop for a closer look: Daddy, what sort of doll did this come from? And Daddy..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:15:10 +0000

“Little girls will stop for a closer look: Daddy, what sort of doll did this come from? And Daddy will say, its body was hidden from us, we didn’t think about it much. Its limbs were long seams of a greasy midnight that used to be trees, and had been buried halfway to forever in the hearts of mountains. And when we moved the mountains to disinter them, streams and rivers died, the lungs of miners turned black, deadly mercury spread across the earth.”

- Incandescent | Via Negativa

"[Small venues] are disappearing because of short-sighted licensing legislation, and that vital..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:50:49 +0000

“[Small venues] are disappearing because of short-sighted licensing legislation, and that vital creative ground, that has served music so well over the years, will disappear for ever. They cannot be replaced by X Factor, which merely clones existing entertainment stereotypes. We desperately need music pubs and music clubs. They are a vital part of our cultural landscape.”

- Ministers urged to keep promise on live music | Music | The Guardian

(via doctorwhotvuk) “Water is patient… Water just...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:29 +0000

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“Water is patient… Water just waits. Wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins.”

"Sixty years ago, a young woman named Mary Douglas studying tribal custom in Africa, came across the..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:09:25 +0000

“Sixty years ago, a young woman named Mary Douglas studying tribal custom in Africa, came across the following belief: if a woman had been unfaithful, she risked miscarriage in pregnancy. This was viewed not as bad luck or magic, but as a law of nature, as today we might regard gravity. At the time she thought the tribe primitive, exercising a crude means of asserting power and ignorant of science. Later, Douglas, a celebrated anthropologist, came to the view that their behaviour was not primitive at all but normal in all societies. That is, what we call “risky” is often an expression of disapproval - though we might not be aware that this is what it is - as much as a measure of real danger.”

- BBC NEWS | Magazine | A risky business