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Putting events online 23 Jul 2013 | 07:02 pm
I’m currently working on a project that brings together musicians from areas of conflict around the world and has them collaborating, rehearsing and performing across the UK over a number of weeks. I’...
Podcast 10: The death of ‘the death of music’ 6 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
Dubber and Steve talk about the death of music, the stories we tell ourselves, experimental pragmatism… and there is pizza. Stuff we mention along the way: Guardian article: Music has died. DIED I tel...
Podcast 9: Numbers 6 May 2013 | 03:15 am
Dubber and Steve talk about statistics, paying attention to your numbers – and whether you might not be better off just not bothering.
Podcast 8: The 360 Deal 13 Mar 2013 | 01:59 am
A shorter-than-usual podcast to promote our new and exciting project: The 360 Deal. Available from Friday, it’s an ebook that brings together a whole bunch of great advice for people just starting out...
Podcast 7: What is music for? 30 Oct 2012 | 09:40 pm
We ask the question ‘What is music for?’ and then go off in many “well, it’s complicated…” tangents – in our usual way, as you’d expect.
Advice for Danish jazz musicians 15 Aug 2012 | 01:49 am
I spent last week at Vallekilde, about an hour outside of Copenhagen, at an annual event called Summer Session. It’s an intensive retreat for jazz musicians hosted by national agency Jazz Danmark. The...
The 3 types of music industry blog 4 Aug 2012 | 04:26 pm
I’ve taken what you might call a professional interest in the writing of ‘new music industry’ bloggers and pundits over the past decade, and while there is a great deal of disagreement among them, the...
Podcast 6: The Internet 12 Jul 2012 | 02:30 am
In which Dubber and Steve go to great lengths (55 minutes, to be precise) in order to attempt to explain the internet, how it works for musicians, and how to make sense of it. In this episode we ment...
Podcast 5: Record Labels 5 Jul 2012 | 05:17 am
In which Dubber and Steve talk at length about their own record labels from the past, record labels in general, the idea of signed versus unsigned artists, their motivations for starting a record labe...
Happy Independence Day, America 5 Jul 2012 | 01:22 am
Dan Krimm from Music Unbound posted this on a mailing list I follow today, and I thought it was a nice way to commemorate Independence Day in the USA. Enjoy. Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson 13 A...
