Nobody Cares about Music (remix)

[Isabeau]

I wish people in general spoke more about what they enjoy than what they don’t.

 

[Sid]

Wow, Spotify is really, really bad. Worth watching this vid.

Spotify is the best invention since sliced bread. (And the other streaming services)
The payments are something between the music industry, the artists and the streaming industry.
For 9,95 a month I have access to an astonishing music archive.
And that totally legal.
That the music industry isn't particularly happy: Excellent!
They screwed us and most of the artists for about a century (and lots of young attractive female wannabe stars) .
Now every new artist who isn't tied to a music company, can put music directly on Spotify and get payed for that, if a song is successful without the music companies taking the largest part of the revenues.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The problem is that the artists, especially independent artists, are NOT getting paid. Spotify just adds an extra layer of people screwing over musicians.

 

[Sid]

The artists and music companies decide themselves to publish there.
It might be interesting to read the fine print before doing so.

And no, not everything that is published gets a lot of listeners.
Same as with the radio, most songs don't get any airplay at all or only at more specialized stations with 0.5 listeners on average per hour.

Every Friday I get a new list with new released singles. 90% of that has very little potential to attract a lot of listeners.

I think radio stations are far more suffering from streaming services.
If I'm not in the mood to handpick numbers, Spotify takes over and lines up song after song that I'm interested in.
They do a lot to keep their listeners happy, and rightfully so, They take our money,

 

[Free]

I wish people in general spoke more about what they enjoy than what they don’t.

Fear for the Twitters!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Review of the weird keyboard/calculator mix Casio VL-TONE VL-1, which Trio used in "Da da da":

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[bubblesort]

I need more heavy metal Taylor Swift in my life.

 

[Free]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ballaké Sissoko: picking up the pieces after US customs broke his kora

Last February, Sissoko’s historic instrument was disassembled on a flight home to Paris. Bolstered by a new kora, his latest album revives their borderless journey

www.theguardian.com

The original story

US customs dismantled 'impossible to replace' instrument, Mali musician says

‘Would US customs have dared to dismantle a Stradivarius?’ asked Ballaké Sissoko after harp-like kora arrived in pieces in Paris with note from TSA

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

Here’s how the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records

A peek at the Internet Archives preservation of old records

www.theverge.com

The Internet Archive, in partnership with George Blood LP, has been working since 2016 to digitize thousands of 78rpm records, some of which were made in the early 1900s. Over 250,000 records have been preserved, and the archive posted a Twitter thread yesterday detailing how each record is cleaned and filed away.

 

[Free]

 

[Romana]

Next up, Van Morrison, Morrissey,and Ted Nugent superbigot band?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Caete]

 

[Free]