Posts by Russell Brown
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Hi all. Just leaving up the above spam while we sort out who's doing it. It doesn't seem to be the company themselves.
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My son, as a supported living allowance beneficiary, cops the secondary tax problem. He has a half-day a week job which I don't think takes him into another tax bracket (it's not even nearly enough to abate his benefit). It's frustrating.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to nzlemming,
IFPI’s figures are a long way out and always have been. They don’t exist to accurately report on the music industry but to justify introduction of “protective” regulation.
The revenue figures are a different thing from the vast piracy claims. They're a pretty good survey of the mainstream industry at least.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to bob daktari,
Bandcamp is awesome as a platform and means for artists to sell direct – but also really painful to use, if you know what you want or have a direct link you’re sweet but discovery in itself its pretty useless – as are most digital stores to be honest, fantastic intuitive search engines they are not
I'd probably get something from Bandcamp as often at once a week, but I gave up trying to discover new things there. I'm 100% sent there by the artist or whoever, and in that situation it works brilliantly.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to Dastardly Bounder,
As a producer unaffiliated with any labels I’m using the triumvirate of Souncloud-Bandcamp-Facebook to publish, publicise and moneterise my music
Argh! And I was going to play my part in the blessed ecosystem by featuring your track this week! Soz! Best wait till next at this point.
I'll be in touch about Entrain too.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to Andrew Dubber,
Bandcamp’s $69m to artists so far might not outweigh the sales of the hits as Anderson suggests, but leaving that number out entirely as Mulligan tends to also significantly skews the figures.
Is it that significant? That’s about 0.5% of global recorded music revenues since Bandcamp launched. Although I agree, it’s pretty poor leaving them out, especially given that in this country anyway, Bandcamp sales contribute to chart positions.
Point taken about IFPI figures. But they'd have to be a long way out to really falsify what he's saying.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to Jason Kemp,
A big yes to what Andrew says above. I have been happily listening to non- superstars since ages ago. I take some interest in what is happening in music but much of my listening is off the grid and is not superstars.
Mine too. Well, maybe. Who knows? If I alert a few people who end up buying the brilliant Race Banyon record on Bandcamp, that presumably shifts it out of the long tail and into Mulligan's Core Catalogue (5m songs) or maybe even Frequented Catalogue (1.25m). It's arguably no longer part of the long tail.
On the other hand, as is obvious to readers of this blog, I'm often doing my listening on Soundcloud, some of it to derivative works (remixes and edits) that actually can't be commercialised.
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Turns out this was in the pipeline all along ...
The Psychoactive Substances Regulatory Authority has withdrawn and recalled six products on the basis of adverse effect reporting.
This casts an interesting light on Peter Dunne's claim that available reports could not be linked to any particular products.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
In the mean time, here’s Austria’s entry: Miss Conchita Wurst, an elegant bearded-lady diva. Her song “Rise like a Phoenix” is like a long lost Bond theme.
I gather several former eastern bloc countries are in open uproar at the prospect of this impeding spectacle of western moral collapse.
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Cracker: The Colorado Experiment, in reply to Steve Curtis,
So this is how you get the bias in your finished work, talk to the wrong people !
Hey Steve, back off a bit. Whatever your views, you have no basis for accusing Damian of "bias" in his work.
Also, this:
But a new report contends that fourteen years later, even after Colorado legalized the sale of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use on Jan. 1 of this year, violent and property crime rates in the city are actually falling.
According to data from the Denver Police Department, violent crime (including homicide, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) fell by 6.9% in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the same period in 2013. Property crime (including burglary, larceny, auto theft, theft from motor vehicle and arson) dropped by 11.1%.
A study looking at the legalization of medical marijuana nationwide, published late last month in the journal PLOS ONE, found that the trend holds: Not only does medical marijuana legalization not correlate with an uptick in crime, researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas argue it may actually reduce it.
It's early days, but for the time being claims that legalising cannabis would lead to surging crime in Colorado are not not being borne out by evidence.