Archive for the 'Industry' Category
Here it is. This track “All Summer” by Kid Cudi, Best Coast and Rostam Batmangli ( from Vampire Weekend and rapidly become one of my favorite names) was created for and available on the Converse website. Is brand sponsored music the only outlet for new music? Are major brands now leading tastemakers for […]
Body Music
“Fleshmap is an inquiry into human desire, its collective shape and
individual expressions. In a series of studies, we explore the
relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation.
Using images of the body as pictograms, Listen offers a fresh look at
vocabulary use, ranging from the popular to the erudite. ” […]
Reports here that Lil Wayne is due to sell upwards of 900,000 copies of “Tha Carter III” this week. That is despite of Mr. Waynes protest against the mixtape dj’s unfairly profitting on his music and other album leaks. Lil Wayne could also surpass Kanye West 1st week sales of “Graduation” which reached 956,000 copies. […]
What do you do if your release date is 2 months away and someone in your camp has leaked your new album to the interweb? It happens alot. All the time. Your label has spent 6 months staging a marketing campaign and now everyone UMICH is downloading your creative genius faster than a greased […]
It’s not particularly a secret. In fact every artist and producer knows about it. Most every artist uses it. And some artist try to shine a spotlight on what has become known in the industry as the “Cher” effect. This week in the New Yorker Sasha Fere Jones breaks down exactly what the digital audio […]
My Morning Jacket plans to debut their upcoming album “Evil Urges” on the internet jukeboxes in dive bars nation wide one week before it becomes available in stores. This does seems like a new and interesting way to promote a new release. We thought that The Hold Steady would have beaten them to the punch […]
Perhaps I’m old fashioned, but I was brought up with the capitalist concepts of producer and consumer - someone makes something that I want, and I pony up the cash for my own copy of it. There are shared assumptions in this agreement - I believe that the company will make something that I […]
Drunks hitting pans with their dicks. PAUL FORD at The Morning News takes
one for the team. While I don’t know exactly how his habit of 6 word
‘twittering” (now a verb apparently) aides humanity, Mr. Ford has taken the
HUGE trouble of listening to 48 continuous hours of music from 763 of the
acts appearing this […]
Would you let this man recommend music to you?
According to MTV.com Mario Lavendeira ( a.k.a Perez Hilton ) is in talks with Warner Brothers records for his own label imprint. In the name of full disclosure I myself have taken some recommendations from Mr. Hilton. He picks some hits and some […]
The thing is…In this 20 minute interview, it does not sound like he is completely convinced by his own words. ( should we be?) Idolator has broke down the highlights but an example of Mr. Iovine’s uncertainty is:
On staying current with his label’s priorities
“Four million people watched Soulja Boy.” (NB: The official “Crank That” […]
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