Physical Pre‑orders Feel Outdated; Major Artists Prefer Surprise Drops
In my world, it's mostly to get as many physical pre-orders as possible before release day. But yeah feels anachronistic. If I was a major artist, I'd just drop albums as surprises.
Digital Revenue, Not Songwriting Style, Drives Music Decline
Adam If you think that a (partial) shift back to professional songwriting rather than the objectively paltry digital revenue scheme caused a decline in music revenues you’re gonna need a robust model to justify that. Cause digital revenue formulas explain the...
Gen Z Faces Endless Retro Music Retrospectives, Like 80s Fans
I wonder if my Gen Z students are seeing lists like this and having the same reaction we had in the early 1980s when Rolling Stone was one article after another about the same handful of classic 1960s hippy band...
Cracker Celebrates 30 Years with Full Golden Age Tour
For the 30th Anniversary Cracker will be playing The Golden Age in its entirety: June 10th The Middle East Cambridge MA June 11th Sony Hall, NYC June 12th The State Theatre Falls Church June 14th Rams Head Annapolis MD https://t.co/i47tD7L5SL
Camper Van Beethoven’s 1986 Live Kinks Cover Released
Happy to share today Camper Van Beethoven's cover of The Kinks’ ‘I’m Not Everybody Else’ recorded live in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1986. On the tour we were opening for REM. https://t.co/LG87Hcu9uQ As featured on Camper Van Beethoven's 40th anniversary II &...
Progressive Metal Is Today's Classical Music Landscape
The closest thing we have to classical music/composers today are all the progressive metal variants. The complexity, the tonality, the incredible musicianship. It's also the most global form of music. If I were forced to do...
Uniformity Dominates NYTimes' 30 Songwriter List and Reactions.
I don’t know what is more embarrassing the single std dev uniformity of the NYTimes 30 songwriter list, or the even tighter uniformity of the tweets mentioning which artists were left out.
Spontaneous Mezzanine Pop‑Up Performance Rocks The Cuban Club
I don’t know who this guy is, but he basically did his own unofficial pop up show on the 2nd floor mezzanine of The Cuban Club last night in Tampa. He was awesome. https://t.co/fqGOGUmK8J
Eilen Jewell Shines Backstage at Tropical Heatwave
Snapped this photo of Eilen Jewell and her band backstage @wmnf Tropical Heatwave festival last night. What a great show they put on. https://t.co/JJl12JujdK
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....