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Why Iggy Pop declined joining the Doors as a replacement for Jim Morrison

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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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The MP3 Is Officially Dead, According To Its Creators

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“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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How record companies use the data Spotify/Apple send them | That Eric Alper

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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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John Mellencamp on Bob Dylan, Stephen King, the Kinks – Rolling Stone

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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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