This blog is always happy to remind rich DJs and the like of things they’d rather forget. It’s with this in mind that I mention the defunct, short-lived Tour Managers Not Touring movement. Born...
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Make music all your life and earn a pittance through Spotify, or sign a $25million deal for 35 minutes work? With rules like that, artists should designate their tracks as podcasts!
Daniel Ek infamously said last summer that if artists and labels wanted to be paid more money by Spotify, they should make more music. He particularly took aim at artists who only release an...
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As it’s revealed 66% of US music streaming is old material rather than new – does that mean my brand of “cheap house” has a bright future ahead for it?
Fresh from the revelation yesterday that I currently have a troll whose decided it wants to bore me to death, I noticed with interest the revelation that 66% of all audio streaming in the...
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EXIT Festival took place last weekend with a reported 180k turnout – but was it an event to be “united as one”, or simply a risk too far?
So last weekend, a huge festival went ahead. Some 180,000 people, it’s been reported, were at the EXIT Festival in Serbia. The dance music press are reporting on the event in much the same...
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The links between Dominick Fernow of Vatican Shadow and the far-right the dance music press aren’t telling you about – but what will Resident Advisor’s new editor Whitney Wei do?
Update – this article was amended on 17th July to remove an erroneous claim saying Fernow appeared at a benefit concert in 2016. It was actually a collaborator who attended, not Fernow himself. This...
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