Great stuff Darren, thanks as always. If you'd like to be a jazz messenger and spread the word about the Jazz on the Beach radio show and Substack, that would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks Darren, great post and recommendations. I have to admit I was quite angered by Blake's post. In my 25 years of professional music journalism, I haven't witnessed or even just heard of someone getting paid for a review by a label. I've never received such an offer, nor do I know of someone who ever got one. That's just utter nonsense. Also, everybody knows we've lost any gatekeeping, trendsetting or tastemaking power long ago.
There is so much to criticize in this industry, yet this is clearly not an issue even worth discussing. But this hits a deeper point you're alluding to in your piece as well – an environment where no one trusts anything to be authentic is only desirable to those that create and profit off inauthenticity.
when people have grown up as followers chasing likes when at the end of the day you are seeking artistic validation.... Things get muddled. Yes big tech is laughing because they know the deeper psychology which has taken place. They gave you an illusion of easy to do but truly hard to succeed even more from the prior analogue era. It is all redundant balderdash with people going deeper into this temporal digital drowning pool. It will get worse till people take themselves out.
Great stuff Darren, thanks as always. If you'd like to be a jazz messenger and spread the word about the Jazz on the Beach radio show and Substack, that would be greatly appreciated!
The Internet Enclosure Movement and its Discontents, in three articles
Hi Darren, just to say your newsletter is great - keep on keeping on!
Thanks Darren, great post and recommendations. I have to admit I was quite angered by Blake's post. In my 25 years of professional music journalism, I haven't witnessed or even just heard of someone getting paid for a review by a label. I've never received such an offer, nor do I know of someone who ever got one. That's just utter nonsense. Also, everybody knows we've lost any gatekeeping, trendsetting or tastemaking power long ago.
There is so much to criticize in this industry, yet this is clearly not an issue even worth discussing. But this hits a deeper point you're alluding to in your piece as well – an environment where no one trusts anything to be authentic is only desirable to those that create and profit off inauthenticity.
never forget: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9I62SVMsAJQ
when people have grown up as followers chasing likes when at the end of the day you are seeking artistic validation.... Things get muddled. Yes big tech is laughing because they know the deeper psychology which has taken place. They gave you an illusion of easy to do but truly hard to succeed even more from the prior analogue era. It is all redundant balderdash with people going deeper into this temporal digital drowning pool. It will get worse till people take themselves out.