music business Archives

Amon Tobin’s Two Finger Step Out With Nomark

26/06/2020

An interview with electronic pioneer Amon Tobin on his venture away from seminal label Ninja Tune to stand by his own beats. ...

SuperBrand to SuperFan

21/09/2015

he entertainment industry is a sprawling animal of celebrity, sober lust and enthusiastic deceit. ***rescheduled to oct 7th*** Toothed and tentacles, it is both predator and prey, in your house,...

Can Analytics Drive Creativity?

25/06/2014

For some this questions appears to be the unholy marketing spawn of a top floor baking table. For others, knowledge and data have always facilitated the creative market. ...

Top Ten Rappers Who Produce

28/10/2013

The rap game is hard to break into. Ask any "lyricist" trying to make it in the music business today - it's much harder to be successful as a rapper than it was 20 years ago. ...

Music in the Age of No-Effort

19/04/2012

‘97,751 albums released in a year’, Jeremy Schlosberg examines the implications of music market gluttony. I was talking to a music industry acquaintance on the phone not long ago and he...