Label Revives Camper Van Beethoven Artwork Kerning Disaster
Our label has been having a lot of fun with the kerning disaster that was the original Camper van Beethoven II and III artwork. Check out the pre order webpage. https://t.co/TaxhUo8AAY https://t.co/kegk2wH7BB
Camper Van Beethoven 40th Anniversary Reissue with REM Live Disc
40th anniversary reissue of Camper Van Beethoven II and III. The original artwork (the album is kosher). Also CD has a live disc culled from Camper Van Beethoven tour with REM. Order link in first reply. https://t.co/vaW5Yn4eYK
Camper Van Beethoven’s ‘Tusk’ Double Vinyl Drops Tomorrow
Tomorrow is Record Store Day. Get the double vinyl reissue of Camper Van Beethoven’s Tusk. https://t.co/jiilVQcjce
Music Press Excuses Digital Decline, Faces AI Replacement
You know every time the indie rock music press has been confronted with digital shittiness they make excuses for the digital shittiness. It was understandable when it was Napster/Linewire/Grokster and no one realized these were just stalking horses for Silicon...
Straw Buyers Skewed Historical Music Sales Charts
This is really interesting first hand account of the old music business practice of using straw buyers to manipulate sounds an numbers from which sales charts were derived.
Undisclosed Promo Bots May Violate FTC and Copyright Law
As annoying as that probably was, this is quantifiably different. You know the Geffen rep works for geffen; you know the speaker has a strong financial interest in her success, you can use that information to analyze what they saying....
Avoid Fake-Account Promotion Services; They May Be Illegal
Yeah, posted earlier basically saying this has been going on for 50 years. But, no. It is not cool. Do not use a company that employs hundreds if not thousands of fake accounts to promote your artist. Also it...
Music Charts Are Manipulated by Paid Album Purchases
I remember friends being paid to buy albums release week at Hollywood tower records, since that was one of the chart reporting stores. The music business has always been a psyop.
Quantum Breakthrough, Not AI, Will Shatter All Privacy
While most of the charlatans are hyping a societal “singularity” event brought on by AI. The actual societal nuclear bomb is going to be when quantum computing gets figured out and there is no longer any encryption. Not just going...
Student Housing Shifts Pressure From Artist Neighborhoods
So on one hand, aesthetically I dislike this look and the whole sclerotic bureaucratic regime that necessitates this. On the other hand when you throw up a bunch of these in dead industrial and commercial neighborhoods near the university...
Ticket Sales Alone Mislead; Shows Profit From Ancillaries
I hate when idiots try to explain music some music business outrage that is in reality a nothing burger. Yes, on ticket sales many shows “lose money” but after you add in other revenue streams, food, drink, parking, upgrades, merch...
EFF Turns Into Google Mouthpiece, Loses Credibility
Whatever changes to the algorithm this post is misleading. This refers to specifically to EFF Twitter account. What has happened is the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn’t popular anymore because it clearly became a mouthpiece for Silicon Valley specifically Google....
AI Hype Is a Bubble; Impractical for Real Businesses
This is why AI is a bubble. If you run a real business why would you deploy this? This was a finite set of data it was looking at. This is not a free consumer grade version. ...
Inviting Japanese Visitors for BBQ and Mud Bogging
I’ve lost count of how many Japanese Twitter users I’ve now told they can stay with me if they come visit and I will take them for BBQ and mud bogging race.
Rare Band Cracker Outtake Drops on Summer Vinyl
There is a recently rediscovered @TheBandCracker outake from the album Greenland "I Know Your Sister She's Big In Japan." It'll be on the Vinyl release this summer. Just in time for the new flowering of friendship between Japan and...