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SanFran Music Tech Summit (May 18, 2009)
22 May 2009There’s a growing movement to re-establish connections between the fractalized digital technology and the already established local music scenes. There’s many more money making opportunities if these connections are seen more clearly as a two-way street, especially as the recording and distribution industries have made severe cuts in their ‘regional offices’ (or more autonomous locally-run subsidiaries) in recent years.
Three SF Bay Area Radio DeeJays
1 May 2009I think once having the internet in your car is a normal thing, FM stations will suffer heavily, escpeially if commercial free stations such as Soma FM still exist. I’m pretty sure that college stations will continue to broadcast on line and perhaps having these online station options available in cars will finally pull some of the stranglehold away from Clearchannel….Who knows, it might be just what the music industry needs to recover from this current dire situation it has fallen into.” (Elise Nordling)
Big Takeover #62 Out Now, and in the Stores! Selected Quotes and Highlights!
30 May 2008Big Takeover #62 with R.E.M. on the cover is on the stands! Look for it in your favorite store near you that carries good music magazines! Below is a slightly longer description of its contents than what I sent previously, with some good quotes from the issue! Like this one from R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe: “”I think that future generations will look back on this time in American history, it will be as foreign to them as slavery is to us. So I’m 48 now and I’m looking [back]; we were right in the middle of women’s liberation, we’d just come through Civil Rights, and I was in an environmental science course in seventh grade talking about pollution and how we’d gotten into this mess, and how we can easily get out of it with alternative energy sources. And we were going to change the world, and guess what? It didn’t happen!”
Christopher Guest - Berklee Performance Center (Boston, MA) - Friday, November 30, 2007
17 January 2008These go to eleven – Nigel Tufnel becomes a doctor
Time Enough at Last?
10 July 2007Content creators will have an increasingly tough time attracting a large audience as people find themselves with ever more options and ever less free time.
Trying to Make Sense of the RIAA's Latest Crackdowns on College Students
6 May 2007It’s odd that a younger generation of consumers is being punished for (and threatened) for exactly—or a very similar—thing that thrived in the repressive JOE MCCARTHY era …
Why Leaked Music Should Spell the End of the Promo
5 December 2006Guess what? I already have that album. I get to listen to it for almost three months before you.
Killing the Messenger: The Cynical Selling of the Dixie Chicks
10 November 2006When the congregation has left the building and all that’s left is the choir, the message gets boring pretty damn quickly.
The View From Beneath the Sand: The Walkman Was Better Than the iPod
2 November 2006Anyone (and now, everyone) can get an interview with (fill in the blank), the hottest new band out there.
My Love/Hate Relationship with Concert Reviews
11 August 2006I have a hard time writing concert reviews myself. The reason: it’s hard to write about a concert without it turning into a journal entry.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of February 7
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The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning (Pure Groove U.K.)
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The Joy Formidable – First You Have to Get Mad limited edition live LP (Pure Groove U.K.)
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Rogue Wave – Permalight (Brushfire)
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Sloan – Hit & Run digital EP (Murder)
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Catherine Wheel – Ferment (Cherry Red U.K.)
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Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
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Mission of Burma – The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador)
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Visqueen – Message to Garcia (Local 638)
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For Against – Never Been (Words on Music)
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The Dimes – The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry (Pet Marmoset)