Comments on: Music Industry and the Mindless Artists It Produces http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/music-industry-and-the-mindless-artists-it-produces-570 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:36:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: New year, new bands, new music « COPYCATS Media Blog http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/music-industry-and-the-mindless-artists-it-produces-570#comment-99 New year, new bands, new music « COPYCATS Media Blog Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:04:45 +0000 http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/?p=570#comment-99 [...] 2, 2009 · No Comments As we kick off 2009, I thought I’d share a post I read from UK music blog.  The author vents some frustrations about big record labels, commercial radio, and the monotonous [...] [...] 2, 2009 · No Comments As we kick off 2009, I thought I’d share a post I read from UK music blog.  The author vents some frustrations about big record labels, commercial radio, and the monotonous [...]

]]> By: Jessie http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/music-industry-and-the-mindless-artists-it-produces-570#comment-73 Jessie Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:22:17 +0000 http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/?p=570#comment-73 Thanks Christopher. Thank you for your feedback on this. The reason I wrote the article is becasue of a few local bands I know who are extremely talented, one in particular who was screwed over by a management company and they had no protection from it. I'm sure your advice will be a big help to those struggling artists out there. It is sad that we are not seeing the artists come through nowdays that will reach the status of those great bands from yesteryear. Maybe its just too diluted now. In the meantime, there are some good bands out there and I'm happy that live music has made a huge comeback over the last decade. Thanks Christopher. Thank you for your feedback on this. The reason I wrote the article is becasue of a few local bands I know who are extremely talented, one in particular who was screwed over by a management company and they had no protection from it. I’m sure your advice will be a big help to those struggling artists out there.

It is sad that we are not seeing the artists come through nowdays that will reach the status of those great bands from yesteryear. Maybe its just too diluted now. In the meantime, there are some good bands out there and I’m happy that live music has made a huge comeback over the last decade.

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]]> By: Christopher B http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/music-industry-and-the-mindless-artists-it-produces-570#comment-71 Christopher B Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:02:35 +0000 http://www.talkaboutrockmusic.com/?p=570#comment-71 Good points. But that's the great thing about the way music is distributed these days. You no longer have to look to the radio or MTV to discover new music. With MySpace and other internet sites, you can access all kinds of new music that you never would have heard otherwise. I work at a CD replication place and hear a lot of great music on both the local (Minneapolis, MN) and national scene. And the young people putting it out there are very savy with promoting it through social networking websites. I have a friend who grew up with me in rural North Dakota. There isn't much for radio play up there (classic rock, oldies, country, and top 40), but they grew their fanbase through MySpace and are constantly touring throughout the country on top of playing many shows in Fargo and the rest of the region. Their music would never get radio play up there. It will be very rare to see any new band reach "legendary" status on a wide scale like the ones mentioned above, but there's still really great stuff out there. You just have to use a different medium. Good points. But that’s the great thing about the way music is distributed these days. You no longer have to look to the radio or MTV to discover new music. With MySpace and other internet sites, you can access all kinds of new music that you never would have heard otherwise.

I work at a CD replication place and hear a lot of great music on both the local (Minneapolis, MN) and national scene. And the young people putting it out there are very savy with promoting it through social networking websites. I have a friend who grew up with me in rural North Dakota. There isn’t much for radio play up there (classic rock, oldies, country, and top 40), but they grew their fanbase through MySpace and are constantly touring throughout the country on top of playing many shows in Fargo and the rest of the region. Their music would never get radio play up there.

It will be very rare to see any new band reach “legendary” status on a wide scale like the ones mentioned above, but there’s still really great stuff out there. You just have to use a different medium.

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