The most misunderstood people in pop #4: Bing Crosby
Wait a minute, Bing Crosby - that Bing Crosby? Was really popular with my great great grandparents or whoever, did White Christmas which...
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Wait a minute, Bing Crosby - that Bing Crosby? Was really popular with my great great grandparents or whoever, did White Christmas which...
So advertising, what happened? Advertising is one of the fuels of the modern digital economy. Advertising dollars pay for countless...
More big public spats in the streaming world - kicked off by the US Copyright Royalty Board’s proposed rate increase for songwriters and...
Any newly qualified lawyer wondering about where they might like to specialise now has a clear answer: tech anti-trust. Get into that and...
So happy to see this story in The Verge that Apple has been commissioning top music designers on the quiet to create beautiful images for...
Alice Guy-Blaché? Who? Only the world’s first female filmmaker, but more importantly than her gender, the first film director at all to...
Very interested in this news from Pandora about a new ‘Stories’ feature for music and podcast creators to add, well, stories about their...
Just finished reading Eamonn Forde’s highly readable ‘The Final Days of EMI - Selling The Pig’ (the porcine reference comes from some of...
Tensions between Spotify and one of the world’s largest music companies have just spectacularly erupted into full view as the two fight...
Great interview in the Guardian today with serial overachiver Mark Ronson. One thing that really caught my eye, when he said this: “All...
Clive Humby, mastermind behind the Clubcard loyalty scheme of UK retail giant Tesco, is generally attributed with coining the phrase...
Andrew Ridgeley, the pretty boy who had the good fortune to hang out with George Michael and ride his coat tails to fame. Didn’t write...
All the breathless coverage on Marshmello’s in-game performance in the juggernaut that is Fortnite left me rather cold. Video gaming is...
The transition to digital consumption, in particular streaming technology, has succeeded because of the many benefits it brings - ease of...
The current models of all the big streaming services are only stepping stones. To see what they’re stepping stones towards, look at the...
Milli Vanilli, the most notorious example of lip synching ever, a salutary lesson in what happens when you lie to your fans as they never...
For a while Buzzfeed and Vice looked like they were successfully reimagining the business model for news media in the digital age. Not so...
Impressive results for Netflix in the Oscar nominations with its first ever Best Picture nomination for Roma which picked up 10 in all...
That Yoko Ono - she broke The Beatles up didn’t she? The greatest band in history, ended because of her. That’s why every time a woman is...
Very interesting and well written Medium piece by music tech writer Cherie Hu on how Spotify can’t be just a music service if it’s going...