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But Who’s Buying? A Column About The Music Business
A few weeks before Britain's historic Brexit referendum -- before John Oliver eviscerated the whole thing on Last Week Tonight; before Noel Gallagher broke his legendary silence on the matter; long...
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You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby: Thoughts On The Nielsen Music Mid-Year...
Is there even such a thing as good news anymore? Man, if there is, please share, because I'm not hearing it. The whole world is a hot mess (literally!) and even those sources to whom we'd usually turn...
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We’ve Passed Peak Vinyl – Here Comes The Collapse
From 1996 - 1999, I worked at a New York City record store called Rebel Rebel. I was a student at NYU when I got the job, and then I graduated from school but stayed at the shop. These were the Golden...
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Skewed VIEWS: The Huge Truth About Drake’s Record-Breaking Chart Run
There's no point anymore in trying to keep up with the records broken and set by Drake's VIEWS because its legacy further swells every week. Billboard tried to catalog the album's many historic...
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No Control: Thoughts On The End Of The Headphone Jack And The Future Of...
Do you know who Lyor Cohen is? This isn't a rhetorical question. I have no perspective here. If you work in the music business, he's a household name. If you don't work in the music business, why the...
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Countdown To Extinction: An Update From The Front Lines Of The Festival Wars
Back in January, I wrote this story for Stereogum about an unusually public clash between two music festivals. Both were happening in New York City, both would go down in summer 2016, both looked...
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CMJ Sure Seems To Be Over. So How Come Nobody Is Talking About It?
The CMJ Music Marathon has been around longer than many of its participants have been alive. Like infinite waves of incoming NYU freshmen, the marathon arrives in New York City every fall, without...
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No Wave: Is This The End Of Tidal? And If So … Then What?
On June 30, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was in talks to acquire Tidal, the on-demand music-streaming service launched by Jay Z (and co-signed by a country club's worth of Jay's...
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