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    21 Jun, 2024
    What is famous?
    celebration, famous names, Ramones, Uncategorized gossip

      When you work in the music industry and you are at a party or a gathering with people that don’t work in the industry and you say that you work in the industry it never goes wrong that someone

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    7 Jun, 2024
    Why don’t I get paid on a showcase festival?
    Showcase, Showcases, showcasing, Uncategorized

      I am still flabbergasted over that many people in quite high places really don’t understand how a showcase festival works? By now people that work in the industry should know that. I even lecture on Universities for new students

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    9 May, 2024
    Music is not driving the trends anymore, we are followers.
    blog gala, Grammis, Grammy, musicindustry

    I guess the music industry for the past 50 years or even more, maybe since the start, calculated that we are the ones that set the trends for the youth. We have always been proud to be the enemy number

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    7 May, 2024
    Darling, you got to let me know. Should I stay, or should I go?
    blog, Showcases critism, gossip, musicindustry, showcase, value

    I posted this on the Future Echoes homepage today. I guess it will confuse people, and it should. People don’t get that it’s the end of an era. We are now going for the next in the music industry. The

    Continue ReadingDarling, you got to let me know. Should I stay, or should I go?

    3 May, 2024
    I left the last group. I seek a professional group.
    blog critism, gossip, musicindustry

    After over 25 years as a member of the indie record label association and over those 25 years I was on the board for twelve years, this week I left. I have since left the publishing association, the manager association,

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    17 Apr, 2024
    The death of supervisors, fake artists and streams.
    blog AI, gossip, musicindustry

    A lot of AI right now since Udio, Suno and Stable Audio just got into the spotlight by offering anyone to make their own song. Just check the post before this one about What is an artist? And you will

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    16 Apr, 2024
    What is an artist?
    blog AI, artist, musicindustry

    Yesterday I did a song in AI. I tested it on my friend who has a really good ear and has introduced me to a lot of good music. He was complaining that the Swedish Eurovision was so bad this

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    6 Apr, 2024
    If you are successful, you are no longer culture.
    blog critism, musicindustry

    I was on a panel not long ago about the future of the music industry. The moderator came from an organization for mainly classical or experimental musicians. The panel was like a broken record on repeat. Since the moderator is

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    8 Mar, 2024
    We can’t move back.
    blog musicindustry

    Confusion is the biggest word I can describe right now. Since we are in a shift in the music industry you see all these people thinking that you should revive stuff that is dead. We saw this also in the

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    1 Mar, 2024
    Mind the gap.
    blog musicindustry

    When you work with mainly new artists, artists that are very new to the industry the interesting reflection is how professional they are if you compare them to the people who work in the industry but are middlemen. Then you

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