NONALIGNMENT·PACT

I don’t put a lot of weight behind the sentimental value of holiday music and decor when November and December roll around. In part it’s family upbringing, both the way the family approached the holidays and the way the family approached everything else – distantly. In part, it is the craven way stores use [...]

First I’ll start with this page of pretty graphs, which imply that artists fare better as a result of file sharing. The question is why people are going to see shows more than they used to. Speculate in comments.

Now on to the various videos.

First, here’s a not particularly insightful audio only interview [...]

I sat in on a demo review session last week after a music business seminar presented by one of my colleagues. It was my job to give frank and constructive feedback on the music written and recorded by seminar attendees.

Everyone was supposed to send only one song. Of course, our music coordinator received [...]

I told her she could edit me, and she said “someone should.” Like “SOMEONE should” is how she meant it. She told me to consider a cap. She caused me to calculate an average word count for my blog posts (it’s 1476, I believe). She got me a little self-conscious.

And then she asked [...]

I came across this Anni Rossi person this week, whose music I like, but who also seems to be representative of a recent trend in sing-songy female vocals–a trend to which I am sadly susceptible. See also, Regina Spektor and Jolie Holland.

In other news, here is fun with rubber.

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