Wanted: A PROperly designed royalty payment system
Some thoughts on a recent upswell of news about local businesses coming under fire from US PROs: Exhibit A: Bauhaus Kaffee Exhibit B: Nine separate businesses…
Musical score and four years ago…
Today, Throw the Dice and Play Nice turns four years old! This has been a particularly hectic, unpredictable and amazing year. Made new friends in…
There’s nothing better than talking up a band’s “Negative Qualities”
Don’t worry, this is no slanderous band rant. This all about the London, Ontario based, garage punk band, Single Mothers and their debut LP, “Negative…
There’s “fun” and then there’s being “fundamentally cool”
It’s hard enough going through life trying to attain some definition of “majority acceptance” (especially in adolescence), to say nothing of the difficulty when one is…
UK Arts: Will they get off “Scot free?” Yes and no.
Yes, yes, the phrase “Get off Scot free” has nothing to do with Scotland or its residents. Yet who could resist the perfect word play? Regardless…
Is the way of traditional fan appeal and aggregation gone with the wind of subcultural change?
Just shy of a month ago, a fellow music industry writer and general knowledge enthusiast, Sunny Stuart Winter, posted his essay on “The Importance of Sub-Cultural Identity,”…
Amy Lynn and the Gunshow: Firing on all cylinders for their debut album: “Don’t Trip on the Glitter”
There’s something about sax, soul and sass powered group, Amy Lynn and the Gunshow, that makes one believe they have already long discounted and dismissed the…
Breaking free of the broken record: Misogynistic misgivings in the music industry
Social justice isn’t my thing. That’s not to say I do not believe in causes of a social justice nature but it certainly isn’t the vector…
I love the new folks at home! (with apologies to Stephen Foster)
This piece is a special guest post by Salina Sias; a confidently genuine, singer-songwriter / producer from Brooklyn, NY and a Jill of many genres (Folk, Jazz, Blues…
Winding down and wishing up some changes for 2014
2013 is nearly over and now that Christmas is behind us, the days that are left are likely to rush right by at an even faster…