Posts filed under “Music”
1. The major music business, the “new music” business, is built upon radio, it depends upon it. 2. There’s a fiction that we still live in a monoculture. This concept has been blown apart on television, where there are five hundred channels available, but the Luddites in radio still believe the Internet didn’t happen, that…Read More
Rock and Roll, Economics, and Rebuilding the Middle Class David Vandivier White House Blog June 12, 2013 Today, at 7:00 pm EST, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger will deliver remarks on income inequality and rebuilding the middle class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As he’ll discuss this…Read More
Category: Economy, Music, Think Tank
1. E-Mail Addresses If you’re gonna sell anything, you’ve got to know who your audience is. Not generally, but specifically, i.e. their names, their addresses. In the old days it was important to know the gatekeepers. Now, whatever gatekeepers are left are less powerful than ever before. The Internet allows you to go direct. Why…Read More
Last week, we published Bob Lefsetz’ discussion of The Daft Punk Album. Tonite, a couple of outstanding covers of a few songs on the album: —————————————-——————————- San Cisco put a different spin on Daft Punk’s huge tune ‘Get Lucky’ with some very unique percussion (read: bongos). Like A Version is a segment on Australian radio…Read More
Category: Friday Night Jazz, Music
(Click Spotify before reading) Don’t believe the hype. Its success had little to do with the marketing campaign. Other than it motivated core fans! That’s the story here. Kind of like when Apple introduces a new product. Daft Punk fans, earned over two decades, track the band incessantly, and when they heard a new record…Read More
