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Strange as it sounds, most of the big independent distributors are owned by the same companies that own the major labels. Specifically, RED and the Orchard are owned by Sony; Caroline is owned by Universal; and ADA is owned by Warner.
Donald S. Passman • All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition
Lou Reed, 1970: “In his mansion Brian Epstein kept Spanish servants, none of whom could speak English. Let that be a lesson to us all in discretion.”
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
Ricardo Villalobos’s Heike (Mood Mix) kicked
Matthew Collin • Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
Song Exploder on Apple Podcasts
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podcasts.apple.comLewis Hyde published a beautiful dot-connecting book in 1983 called The Gift, which tackles the elusive subject of what Hyde calls “the commerce of the creative spirit.”
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
The label didn’t seem to understand that we didn’t work like a pop band. We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
En 1995, à l’âge de vingt-six ans, il a créé un magazine alternatif, The Idler (Le Fainéant), qui célébrait l’éthos de la génération X : partir loin des courses de rats et mener une vie de plaisir, de créativité et d’apathie politique.
Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name,” John Lennon famously said, “you might call it Chuck Berry.”