For the last few years, the music industry has only known one direction: up. Global sales have climbed 5 years in a row, buoyed by the rise of streaming services Spotify and Apple Music, while concert ticket sales eclipsed $10 billion, a new high. The pandemic changed all that. Concerts have been canceled for most… Read More…
David Foster
They say nothing becomes a legend the most as the legends themselves. Well, maybe that saying hasn’t quite entered the popular lexicon just yet, but after viewing the sprawling documentary, David Foster: Off the Record, which debuts today on Netflix, one might be tempted to share that thought regardless. Directed by Barry Avrich, the film allows the… Read More…
Cancellation vs Postponement
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side – Hunters S. Thompson. From the inside of the music business, I have experienced the dark side, but usually it is well insulated from… Read More…
Any good news?
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. How are we to live in an atomic age? I am tempted to reply: Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking… Read More…
Home studios now legal
Metro Council voted Tuesday evening (July 7) to approve the Home Occupation Modernization bill (BL2019-48) in Nashville, an ordinance amending Section 17.16.250 of Title 17 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws relative to home occupation, which regulates people operating a small business from home. The council voted 25-14 to approve the bill, which was sponsored by Councilman… Read More…