The Myth of Writer’s Block
Ever decide you were suffering from “writer’s block”? How did you define this mysterious condition? As a mental obstacle? A chronic ailment? A demon bent on tormenting you? Did you use… Read More →
Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce
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- Tags: amazon, artistic brand, artistic identity, artists, best buy, brand, CD, copyright, digital audio, digital media, download, facebook, free spotify, freeware, identity, indie artists, indie music news, indie rock music, intellectual property, media technology, megaupload, mixtape, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, napster, playlists, spotify, stream, streaming music, tower records, vinyl, walmart •
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- by Wampus
You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market.… Read More →
Jason Warburg: On Believing and Becoming
- Categories: Art and creativity, Identity, New books •
- Tags: activism, being and becoming, belief, believe, believe in me, believing, catch-22, daily vault, fiction, jason warburg, music, music novel, politics, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, self-awareness •
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- by Wampus
In his new novel, Believe in Me, Jason Warburg wrestles mightily with a Catch-22: to achieve something, we must believe we can achieve it. Yet if we haven’t achieved it before, how… Read More →
Lessons of R.E.M.: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- Categories: Art and creativity, Identity •
- Tags: accelerate, automatic for the people, bill berry, brain aneurysms, breaking up, identity, indie music, lifes rich pageant, michael stipe, mike mills, monster, murmur, music industry, peter buck, r.e.m., reveal, up •
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- by Wampus
Reactions to the recent breakup of R.E.M. ranged from shock to nostalgia to acceptance. After 31 years — effectively three times as long as The Beatles were on the radar, or… Read More →
Passion Is Like Coffee
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- Tags: commit, commitment, independent artists, indie music, passion, publishing •
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- by Wampus
It’s de rigueur to talk about “passion,” how it informs our destiny, and how following it is the most important thing we can do. And surely passion, in its mad… Read More →