It’s only taken 8 months but I feel comfortable back in the captain’s chair at my record label after having not done it for the past 5 years. Re-issuing old albums will continue to be my bread and butter but I will always keep supporting and promoting independent music. It’s where I started and will always have a special place in my heart. The spirit of original and new music is what drives creativity forward. Nostalgia is full of sign posts but without new music to build and cultivate new paths the road ends and the sign post will read ‘dead end’.
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JAIMIE VERNON – HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL INDIE ARTIST
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags biography, Bob Segarini, Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, CD Baby, David Komie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, email, entertainment lawyer, Facebook, Haileerosemusic, incorporate, independent music, Instagram, iPhone, iTunes, Jaimie Vernon, Myspace, original music, Pandora, Photos, Pinterest, Presence, Reverbnation, Rock and Roll lawyer, self-promotion, Soundcloud, sounds incorporated, Spotify, success, SXSW, TuneCore, tweet, Twitter, Unsigned Sealed & Delivered, You've Got Mail on May 7, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON: UN-MERRILY DOWN THE STREAM
Posted in Opinion with tags advances, All About That Bass, Bob Segarini, boogieman, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, digital sales, digital streaming, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Glade Air Freshener, Jaimie Vernon, Katy Perry, Kevin Kadish, killing music, Lady GaGa, Major Labels, Meghan Trainor, napster, ninja assassin, Pandora, physical sales, producer, revenue, songwriters, Spotify, strawman, taping, Taylor Swift, Tidal, Title, video, vinyl, YouTube on October 3, 2015 by segarini
This week came the revelation that digital music streaming services are both ripping off artists AND generating no revenue. Rarely has there been a non-story generating so much sucking and blowing simultaneously.
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JAIMIE VERNON – TIDAL WAVE
Posted in Opinion with tags Beyonce, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Coldplay, compact discs, DBAWIS, DeadMau5, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jaimie Vernon, Jay-Z, Kanye, Madonna, Major Labels, MTV, Much Music, napster, Pandora, radio, Rihanna, Sports Radio, Spotify, Talk Radio, The Tube, Tidal, Top 40, VH1, vinyl on April 4, 2015 by segarini
During the 50 years preceding the collapse of the music industry – i.e. Before Napster – the music we knew and loved was carefully spooned out and fed to us proportionally by record companies who knew how much we’d consume and for how long. This was done via a sifting process controlled by radio.
Frank Gutch Jr: Thank You Music (and other reasons I love the indies); Digital Streaming Heats Up; New Albums of Note; and a Note…
Posted in Opinion with tags andrew davenhall, bill jackson, Cowboy, David Bullock, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., hannah gillespie, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jon Gomm, Kirsti Gholson, Lady GaGa, Lindsay Clark, music, Music Radio, No Small Children, Paige Anderson, Pandora, Records, segarini, Son of Man, Space Opera, Spotify, Taylor Swift, the fearless kin, Tom House, Tom Mank on November 25, 2014 by segarini
But before I begin passing out (No, wait! There is more!) awards and kudos to those who made a huge difference in my attitude and my life, let me point you all to a problem we in America (including the hat— that be Canada) should embrace— the media. Not that the media itself is the problem, but (as pointed out by Roxanne Tellier‘s DBAWIS column of just two days ago) how we have allowed politics to destroy it.
Frank Gutch Jr: Musicians to Corporate: This Is War!; Mad Anthony’s Brand-Spanking New Video; and Notes Even You Can Play
Posted in Opinion with tags Beggars Group, Billy Bragg, Christopher Harrison, Chuck Stenberg, Clear Channel, Clive Davis, Dan Phelps, Dave Trenkel, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Hawkwind, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Hunter, Louie Louie, Mad Anthony, music, Music Radio, music videos, Pandora, radio, rebecca pidgeon, Records, Roger W. Morgan, Rosanne Cash, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Shook Twins, SIRIUS, Soundcloud, Spotify, Suzana Barbosa, T-Bone Burnett, Tim Westergren, Trichordist, Van Dyke Parks, Warm, Xenat-Ra, YouTube on July 29, 2014 by segarini
Strap yourselves in, sports fans, because this is going to get ugly. The past few days have given us a flurry of comments and actions to chew on in this fast growing chaos which is the new landscape of music.
Frank Gutch Jr: Research Turtles: An Update, The Digital Streaming Wars Heat Up, Plus Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags andrew davenhall, atoms for peace, bandcamp weekly, copyright act of 1976, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, erin lunsford, Fire Tapes, flamethrowers, Frank Gutch Jr., hannah gillespie, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jon Gomm, jud norman, Kink Ador, Lisbee Stainton, music, Nick Holmes, No Small Children, Pandora, planting seeds sampler, real gone music, Records, Research Turtles, Spotify, thom yorke, toxic melons, Warhen on July 23, 2013 by segarini
I thought Research Turtles had a solid chance. I really did. They had everything going for them— solid music, a great attitude, a growing following. Evidently, though, you need more than music and attitude in today’s music world. You need a honey boo-boo (whatever that is) or need to be a two year old master of the guitar or something. I told Jud that. He said it was too late, that he was already past the age of incredulity. It ain’t easy being an adult.
Frank Gutch Jr: From Africa With Love: Dirtmusic, Tamikrest and Gary Heffern; Pandora vs. Pink Floyd: The Digital Distribution Debate Continues; Music History 101; and Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Arborea, Berkeley House Concerts, Big Star, Buck Curran, Chris Brokaw, chris eckman, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., gary heffern, George Bunnell, Hugo Race, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Zentner, Michelle Malone, music, Pandora, Pink Floyd, Records, Tamikrest on July 10, 2013 by segarini
I’m going back to school. I’ve been going to school since I graduated, in fact, because if there is one truth in the world it is that as much as we know, we know too little. About people. About science. About truth. And about music, among a few thousand other subjects. We are a defective lot which is to say in vinyl terms that we are warped or scratched or that we skip. Us humans are, in effect, not the top but the bottom of the food chain as far as I can tell because we are the only species who think we know it all.
