| Hardcore saved my life. Funny to say, but super unlistenable punk rock music made by total misfits got me better grades, got me off drugs, got me to quit smoking, become a vegetarian, live my life with purpose and eventually led to my career. |
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| Luh Luh land: Luh Tyler at Rolling Loud, Inglewood, Calif., March 4, 2023. |
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Pie v. Pie
Can we all get along? Music Business Worldwide takes a deep dive into indie label group IMPALA’s own deep dive into the streaming music pie, and the NATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHERS’ ASSOCIATION takes an angry dip into both, and one can’t help wonder why artists/labels and songwriters/publishers are still fighting *each other* over how to divvy up their smallish shares of 70-ish percent of the $9.99 you’re paying to SPOTIFY or APPLE every month. Quick context: Artists/labels get significantly more of that 70-ish percent, in gross figures, than writers/publishers. But the former, per Impala’s most recent report on streaming financials, thinks its net share is slipping. But why, in any case, is their beef with each other? Shouldn’t artists and songwriters, who are sometimes the same people, be on the same side of the table? Shouldn’t labels and publishers, who often are the same company, be sitting side-by-side, too? Do indie artists *want* indie labels to negotiate against their songwriter friends? Do you want your favorite football team’s offensive line and wide receivers arguing salary with each other? Or do you envision them both arguing with the owners, and maybe even arguing together? Does it get worse or better when the overall pie they’re arguing about (back to the music makers now) stops growing the way it’s been growing for the past several years? Does it get worse of better when (see next item) another major source of streaming music income is suddenly in danger of going away?
Butte Out
More than half the states in the US have joined the federal government in banning TIKTOK from government devices, but Montana has become the first state to ban the app altogether. The bill, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2024, has been criticized as being both unenforceable and unconstitutional and will almost certainly be challenged in court. “I rarely see a bill that is this technically stupid,” TARAH WHEELER, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the Atlantic in April. But Montana may go even further: GOV. GREG GIANFORTE has expressed support for legislation that would ban any app whose user data can be accessed by “a person or entity located within a country designated as a foreign adversary.” The music industry, for its part, has had several years to prepare for this; attempts to ban TikTok in the US and elsewhere date back to at least 2019. And while there are plenty of people in the music biz who would be devastated by the video’s disappearance, there are others who can think of other places where the money currently being poured into TikTok marketing campaigns might be better spent, for whatever that’s worth.
Etc Etc Etc
Do musicians need to watch out for AI name/voice/likeness clauses in their contracts? (Do you even have to ask?)... AM radio is quickly disappearing from new cars, but a bipartisan group of US lawmakers, citing AM’s importance during emergencies, is pushing back. The AM for Every Vehicle act was introduced Wednesday in both houses of Congress... WEEZER performed on the Hollywood writers’ picket line outside the PARAMOUNT lot Wednesday afternoon... LEWIS CAPALDI performed at the TINY DESK... French Canadian singer DIANE DUFRESNE, jazz pianist OLIVER JONES, country singer TERRI CLARK and rock band TROOPER will be inducted into the CANADIAN MUSIC HALL OF FAME tonight in Calgary. The CBC will stream the ceremony here.
Rest in Peace
SHAWN “GUS” VITALE, longtime sound engineer at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. “He was the first face folks see when they load-in for a show and the last when they load-out, and had the most welcoming smile every time,” the club said.
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HITS Daily Double |
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| Jody Gerson: The Hits Interview (Part 1) |
| By Lenny Beer and Simon Glickman |
| "Because financial companies, their investors and so many people have taken an interest in music publishing as an asset class, people have lost the sense of what a true music publisher is. It’s about identifying it early and believing in it, creating value." |
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| From Hardcore to Hardcore MUSIC Investor: Q’s With Matt Pincus |
| By Andy Gensler |
| Pincus’ venture MUSIC has invested $105M of equity capital in businesses including music tech company Splice and ticketing company Dice, and holds a controlling stake in Kobalt. He gives us his take on today’s music business environment, building teams, investment strategies and how his hardcore band Judge helped transform his life. |
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| Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the Business of Sound and Silence |
| By Shirley Halperin, Cynthia Littleton and Andrew Wallenstein |
| Bose is searching for the perfect software algorithm to evaluate the sounds around you and cancel out what you don’t want to hear. As CEO Lila Snyder describes it: “It’s almost tuning the dial on the volume of your life — which things you wanna turn up, which things you wanna turn down.” |
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The Ringer |
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| ‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” with Courtney Love |
| By Rob Harvilla and Courtney Love |
| Rob is back and ready to share his inner most thoughts on Batman movies, hearing Nirvana for the first time, and more as he looks back at quite possibly the most inescapable song of the ‘90s. Later he is joined by Rockstar, singer of Hole, and wife of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love. |
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The Honest Broker |
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| The celebrated pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center talks with Ted Panken. |
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| The Prince Mixtape: Nothing But The Funk |
| By Nichole Perkins, Patrice Rushen, Kat Okedeyi... |
| What made Prince such a unique performer? Musician and Prince muse Patrice Rushen, professor Kat Okedeyi, and writer Anil Dash explore how funk infused Prince’s performance style, including his Super Bowl Halftime Show and one of his last concerts ever. |
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| Next Big Thing In Music Production? |
| By David Barbe and Larry Crane |
| A curious reader who wanted to know, "What do you see as the next big thing in music production?" I passed this on to various Tape Op contributors and people we've interviewed to see what they envision. Here are some thoughts about the future of recording music! |
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VAN Magazine |
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| First Canceled, then Celebrated |
| By Nika Parhomovska |
| For decades, he embodied the classical jet set. Then he became persona non grata around the world. What happened to Valery Gergiev? |
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| Music of the day |
| “Can't Move Wrong” |
| Luh Tyler (ft. Trapland Pat) |
| From "My Vision," out now on Motion Music/Atlantic. |
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