'This is what ya'll brought me here for.'

HIGH FIDELITY was released 24 years ago this week. One of the most successful adaptations of a Nick Hornby novel, and as popular with music lovers as movie fans, the behind-the-scenes tale has to be in the Top 5 making of stories…

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If we want quality music somebody is gonna have to pay for it. Streaming services don’t pay properly, labels want a bigger cut than ever and just sit and wait for you to go viral, TikTok doesn’t pay properly, and touring is getting prohibitively expensive for most artists.

Which would be the harder pill for the majors to swallow -

abandoning pro-rata for a fan centric model?

or adopting a 90/10 revenue split?

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Happy bday to Detroiter James Jamerson, b. 1/29/36. He was, as Charles McPherson says, the Charlie Parker of the electric bass. Rhythm, melody, harmony, chops, groove. That m.f. had a pocket a mile wide and a mile deep. The Motown sound starts w/ Jamerson. youtu.be/imsB543zqSM?si…

David Byrne practicing his moves for Stop Making Sense

Some of my fondest memories of college are from Richard Davis’ lessons and stories. One of a kind. 💔

Once again thinking about Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise pitch to Ethan Hawke

Man, it's a wonder that Allen didn't get hurt with that landing.

What an unreal dunk.

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Hip hop group De La Soul is finally on Spotify and Apple Music after decades of legal restrictions surrounding sampling. Dan Charnas on how music copyright law hasn’t caught up to how music is created nowadays: bit.ly/3TmHDWb

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It’s official. Marquette Basketball are your BIG EAST MBB CHAMPIONS

If Spotify paid what Tidal or even Apple paid artists, it would result in a mass transformation of the industry and allows tens of thousands of independent musicians to earn a living.

Instead, they're moving to a sweatshop labor-for-exposure model.

'Renaissance' aus der Kult-Serie #WhiteLotus zum allerersten Mal l-i-i-i-i-i-v-v-v-e-e vom RTO Ehrenfeld 🪷