One of the recurring themes of this blog is the future revenue generation and monetisation of musical product in the post-BitTorrent world. Or, in non-bullshit speak, “Holy Fuck How Are We Going To Make A Living When Everyone Can Download This Shit For Free”. Because, dear Reader, I want the people who make the music [...]
All posts for the month June, 2010
Midyear New Music (Part Five) – Marco Mahler
Posted by loftandlost on June 30, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/30/midyear-new-music-part-five-marco-mahler/
Midyear New Music (Part Four) – Meursault
I’ve been meaning to write about Meursault for ages. Partly because they are, you know, really dead good and that; partly because they’ve released an album which I’ve been very much enjoyed this past few months (All Creatures Will Make Merry), and partly because their records are released by a reasonably well-known Scottish music blog, [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 28, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/28/midyear-new-music-part-four-meursault/
Inbetweeners
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately (as opposed to writing, heh). In amongst the books on the politics of modern Country music (Rednecks and Bluenecks) and 1000 page histories of the 30 Years War (yes, really, and I’ve had a great idea on an article comparing the Spanish empire of the early 17th Century [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 27, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/27/inbetweeners/
Midyear New Music (Part Three) – Dissociates
I’ve been busy. And, if truth be told, I’ve got a bit of writers block. Much as I love doing this blog, the bit of my brain that gets the rest of me moving and writing and thinking of interesting things to say has been staring out of the window listlessly for the past week. [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 18, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/18/midyear-new-music-part-three-dissociates/
Totally Wire-d
Music, in case you hadn’t read the memo, is as much about tribalism as anything else. Some music – like gospel, Welsh close-harmony singing – brings people together. Others, such as the massed choirs of football fans, or genres like Emo and Oi, are as much about separating a group of people from their peers. [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 9, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/09/totally-wire-d/
Midyear New Music (Part Two) – Club 8
“Right, here’s another chirpy indie-pop number from Sweden” “Sweden? Again? All you ever bloody write about is bloody chirpy indie-pop from Sweden“ “That’s not true. I write about plenty of other bands. Like Mew, for example” “Mew? They are from Copen-bloody-hagen. If you go to the top of the Carlsberg building you can see bloody [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 5, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/05/midyear-new-music-part-two-club-8/
Midyear New Music (Part One) – Tonspender
Back in January, I did a series of posts of new music called, unoriginally, New Year New Music. As I’ve been ignoring both this blog and my inbox over the past month due to Crappy Real Life Issues, everything’s kind of backed up a bit, and as the Crappy Real Life Issues are now slowly [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 3, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/03/midyear-new-music-part-one-tonspender/
Inappropriate Songs (Part 313 of an ongoing series)
Recently, my new iPhone was stolen and as a result, I’ve had to go back to my old one, which I’d previously given to my son. Unfortunately, I hadn’t removed my old songs from it and as a result, he’s been happily playing my music. Which, on the whole, is a lovely thing. We had [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 1, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/06/01/inappropriate-songs-part-313-of-an-ongoing-series/
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