Sign Crushes Motorist: The artist actively trying to release music anonymously and failing
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George Harrison’s ‘Wonderwall Music’: the Beatles’ first solo album and weirdest one too
An Indian-inspired, genre-bending soundtrack.
‘Eight Songs for a Mad King’: the most insane piece of music ever written
Baritone shrieks across five octaves in a cage-like opera.
The rise and fall of Tower Records and how the music industry screwed the pooch in the late ’90s
I just finished watching Colin Hanks’ impressive documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records, titled All Things Must Pass. While I’d recommend the…
Chubby Checker’s *extremely strange* open letter to the music industry
Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans, holds a place in rock history as the man who popularized “The Twist,” a song originally a minor hit for…
Sexbot, Victim, One of the Girls: Charlotte Church’s talk on music industry misogyny
I don’t know what kind of profile Charlotte Church has in the US any more, if she has any. Five million Americans have bought Church’s…
Blues Singer Lester Chambers: Reality of the Music Industry for the 99%
Lester Chambers, former lead singer of The Chambers Brothers, highlights the hard reality of the record company’s exploitation of its artists. Chambers sang such hits…
The music industry may be dead but music lives!
The age-old advice given to musicians of “don’t quit your day job” has never seemed so prescient. But if your day job is in the…
David Quantick: ‘The music industry hates you’
Smarter than your average bear, the multi-talented writer David Quantick recently popped up on BBC’s Newsnight Review to rattle cutlass with the Music Industry. Quantick…