Video of the Week: Interview with Alice Cooper on Late Musician Glen Campbell
11 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: alice cooper, glen campbell
Video of the Week: Glen Campbell–A Better Place
11 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
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With no more income from album sales, a 69-year-old rock legend has to go back on tour
05 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: artist royalties, donald fagen, music revenue, music streaming, spotify, steely dan
(via Quartz) by Amy X. Wang
For musicians, it’s the best of times and it’s the worst of times. Streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify are booming, helping the long-suffering music industry grow for the first time in decades.
But these new services make very little money for artists, with ephemeral streams paying out only a fraction of the revenue of actual album sales and downloads. Beyoncé, the highest-paid artist of last year, made the bulk of her money from a world tour. So did Guns N’ Roses, the second name on that list, and that band hasn’t even released a new album in a decade.
Another sign of the times is Donald Fagen, the 69-year-old cofounder of rock band Steely Dan, who has just announced a new tour in the US and Japan with an entirely new backup band called the Nightflyers. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), Fagen’s explanation for the new tour was decisively blunt
Songs You May Have Missed #616
04 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: find yourself, lady gaga, lukas nelson
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: “Find Yourself” (2017)
Self-described “cowboy hippie surf rocker” Lukas Nelson and his band Promise of the Real have frequently opened for Lukas’ father Willie Nelson, and Lukas follows his own live set by playing in dad’s band.
Here he duets with none other than Lady Gaga on the roots rocker “Find Yourself”, with Gaga channeling Bonnie Raitt to deliver exactly the type of muscular performance the song requires.
On a personal note, this song, like others I’ve posted here, came to me at the exact moment–literally the very hour–when its message was most pertinent in my life:
I know the love that I deserve
I hope you find yourself before I find somebody else to be my lover
History Of Rock Written By The Losers
04 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in General Posts, On a Lighter Note Tags: the onion
(via The Onion)
BOSTON—Fifty years after its inception, rock ‘n’ roll music remains popular due to the ardor of its fans and the hard work of musicians, producers, and concert promoters. But in the vast universe of popular music, there exists an oft-overlooked group of dedicated individuals who devote their ample free time to collecting, debating, and publishing the minutiae of the rock genre. They are the losers who write rock’s rich and storied history.
“The city of Boston is about more than just Mission Of Burma or Galaxie 500, and it’s certainly about more than Boston or The Cars,” said 28-year-old Dana Harris, a rock historian. “The scene in Boston is full of history, but it’s also vibrant right now. Someone needs to record all the amazing things going on here, even if it means that person will never have a social life.”
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Every Moment Has A Song 