Steely Dan – Why Their Music Matters.
I remember first hearing Steely Dan at a record store on Bloor Street in Toronto in 1977. At seventeen years of age, I didn’t have a surplus of cash, so …
Run For Cover Records
Many of us with a passion for music would love to turn this into a career. Most of us don’t have the musical talent to be the next Kanye (speaking …
Caverna Magica by Andreas Vollenweider
I have a very vivid memory of first hearing Caverna Magica by the Swiss electro-harpist Andreas Vollenweider. It was about 10:30 am December 22, 1983. I had been married for …
6 Plus Reasons to Own Your Music
The idea of listening to music that you don’t own isn’t new. It was originally called radio. But you were limited to whatever the stations that you could receive were …
Do You Know the Canadian Connection to Sgt Pepper?
As this article states, there is not a word sung, spoken or whispered by the Beatles, or anyone remotely associated with the Fab Four, that has not been analysed to …
The MP3 is Dead
I remember my first MP3 player. It was a thumb drive with a couple of controls for volume and play/pause. It held 128 meg of music – maybe 35 songs …
Music Listening in Canada
Wow – 93% of Canadians were listening to music in 2016. I’m not sure why it isn’t 100%, but that’s a personal bias. Still, this represents an increase from 89% in …
More About Music Creators’ Revenue
The more I read about the compensation that music creators receive for their work, the more frustrated I get with the seemingly myopic perspective of the streaming music services like …
Streaming Music and Musician Revenue
Very interesting article that follows up nicely to a post on where streaming music subscriptions go. Sharky Laguana presents a case for a new revenue sharing/distribution model for musicians and …
Productivity and Music
“Music has a strange temporal permanence; as art decorates space, so does music decorate time.” Very interesting article about the increasing importance of music in our work life from the …