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🔵 Indie labels put in more value to the music business than they take out - will that ever change?
Our first ever guest post, courtesy of Keith Jopling
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August 2024

🔵 Recognising the true value of indie labels
In an age of music conglomerates with a myriad of interests, let's take a mo to appreciate the classic, traditional indie record label
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🔵 Could we maybe support Bandcamp more?
This "X is the next Bandcamp" line is getting a little tiresome
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🔵 About that Universal Music share dive...
Is this why Believe are so keen to go back into private ownership?
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🔵The unfeasibly strange way things are pointed…
Spoiler: if left unchecked, it doesn’t look great for social media, AI, the music industry and yes, even free speech
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Darren Hemmings
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🔵Suno’s legal defence is woeful as the cracks start to show with GenAI
Investors getting cold feet, share prices tumbling… is the bubble about to burst?
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Darren Hemmings
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🔵From the vaults: This image illustrates perfectly how Spotify are getting it wrong
A post from 2016 about Spotify’s playlisting that still rings true today
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Darren Hemmings
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🔵 Entropy, Ted’s Doom Loop, and the problem with tech’s vision of curation
Why noise is now overtaking signal
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Darren Hemmings
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July 2024

🔵 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?
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