Artistic Courage Is Not Optional
Think for a moment about artistic courage. We’re all busy, right? We have a lot to tend to every day — family, friends, home, job, volunteering, watching cat videos on… Read More →
The Myth of Writer’s Block
- Categories: Art and creativity, Identity •
- Tags: composing, create, creative, creative inspiration, creativity, fiction writing, inspiration, novel writing, short story writing, songwriting, tips for writers, writer's block, writing fiction •
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- by Wampus
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
- Categories: Identity, Music business •
- 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
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- 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 →