Songwriting and Music Production
Iggy and the Stooges made money mostly from tours and gigs. Iggy Pop says: “We make an album, everybody complains for the first five years. And after about 10 years, people say, hey, you know, that’s pretty good. The money kicks in about 20 years later.” Source: Why Iggy Pop declined joining the Doors as…
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Source: What 2018’s Breakthrough Artists Need To Do Now To Succeed – hypebot She says a band should, “Practice a lot and play a little.” Playing too much and too often is a killer for young bands. She adds, “You can play El Cid 10 times a month but then when you try to book…
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Former Stooges singer recalls wild tales ahead of new oral history book ‘Total Chaos’ Iggy Pop discusses touring, music and history of Stooges in forthcoming book ‘Total Chaos’ out November 15th via Third Man Books.Patrick Pantano
Six months after Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony he did not attend, the songwriter has fulfilled the award’s criteria by delivering a lecture on the topic to the Swedish Academy. Ahead of Nobel Prize ceremony, we explore how Dylan wrote not just songs or poetry, but history Recorded June 4th in…
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On “Wall of Glass,” which pairs a vintage Oasis attack with modern production sheen, Gallagher criticizes hypocrisy and mob mentality. “You believe in fascinations/ And designer vaccinations, love,” he belts. “You get along/ You were sold a one direction/ I believe the resurrection’s on, and you were wrong.”
The group was originally comprised of Bryan Ferry (vocals, keys, and chief songwriter), Graham Simpson (bass), Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe), Paul Thompson (drums and percussion), and last but not least, Brian Eno (VCS3 synthesizer, tape effects, backing vocals and “treatments”). Ferry had started the band alongside Graham Simpson. The cool suave…
http://www.cbc.ca/…/lou-reed-wild-side-university-guelph-st… — “There were also plenty of rumoured relationships with men, leading some fans to name Reed as the first “out” rock star. But why bother remembering any of this when you can invent some outrage, in return for a little validation that your opinions are worth something? That’s what students at the University of…
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Source: Inside Real World Studios, Peter Gabriels recording sanctuary Incredible slide show. Literally more equipment than God.
“The death of the MP3 was announced in a conference room in Erlangen, Germany, in the spring of 1995.” So opens Stephen Witt’s How Music Got Free, an investigation into the forced digitization and subsequent decimation of the music business, from which it has only very recently started to recover. That ironic conference room eulogy…
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A blockchain movement is growing at the United Nations, where transparency is key to keeping the funding coming in. Source: How Blockchain Could Finally Unite the United Nations – CoinDesk
The best thing you will see today. Source: Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Ever These guys had an other band, of humans. But this is the original line up.
At Next Radio 2016, Brittney Bean outlines how DSPs (like Spotify and Apple Music) provide consumption data to record companies and how they use it to retail more music. Source: How record companies use the data Spotify/Apple send them | That Eric Alper Kind of reminds me of the record player that plays the rings…
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Source: Benji Rogers | Keynote Conversation · SlidesLive dotBlockChain. A great video explanation by smart people as to how blockchain can work within the music business to make the music business great again. Sing it.
When asked why knowing every Beatles’ kit, drum piece, and hardware matters, Astridge answers plainly, “I feel The Beatles’ legacy will go on for centuries. My whole take on this and the reason why I collected drums and gear specific for his my whole life was to help bring Ringo’s kits back to life.” Source:…
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John Mellencamp discusses working with Stephen King, getting props from Bob Dylan, why his opinions are “hard to deal with” and more. Source: John Mellencamp on Bob Dylan, Stephen King, the Kinks – Rolling Stone Your friend Bob Dylan shouted you out in his MusiCares speech a couple of years back. What did that mean…
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