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🔵 Can ORCA turn the tide for the indies?
The new indie research body aims to demonstrate music's value to governments. Can it succeed?
🔵 The music industry's stasis problem
AI aside, evolution in the music space is grinding to a halt
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🔵 Does the success of niche festivals point to a return of the tribe?
Smaller, more focused events appear to be the path forward for festivals it seems
🔵 If AI isn't the war, what is?
Equally, is it time to accept that music as an industry is just too complex now?

June 2024

🔵 Everyone calm down! A pragmatic look at AI and music
As lawsuits fly, let's try to take a balanced look at this all...
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🔵 Labels have forgotten how to do marketing
Why labels have lost their way with marketing, and what we can do to fix that
🔵 Why we need to think more broadly about the music ecosystem
The music industry is working hard to engage disruptive tech companies, but what is the focus beyond that?
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May 2024

🔵 From the vault: Music streaming services are gaslighting us
Re-publishing my 2019 article because it remains as relevant now as it did then.
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🔵 Big Tech's march on popular culture continues
Surely now the question has to be "when will the industry unite against a common threat?"
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🔵 The Great Escape's boycott problem is a symptom of wider arrogance in music
Why this issue merely signposts wider levels of growing hubris among the corporate music industry
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🔵 Why The Quietus may still have its finest hours ahead of it
The music website that continues to endure as a beacon of great journalism, and which might finally be rewarded accordingly
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🔵 D2C exclusives and the perils of ignoring the wider ecosystem
Or, why it is past time we all recognised the need for a full, flourishing ecosystem around music
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