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Avoiding the backbeat since 1987. Damon & Naomi: / Dada Drummer Almanach: / Fedi: @dada_drummer @assemblag .es
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Jamie Raskin promoted a Mission of Burma show on Harvard campus my freshman year, 1981. It’s possible these are the only two in the room who know the Descendants
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Two years in and I don’t see how the music industry has made any changes in response - we can’t play live and we can’t press vinyl and we can’t sell CDs and we’re not paid enough or fairly for streaming. Change isn’t coming from the top and it won’t unless we force it from below
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With all the Tesla drama you might have missed that Spotify has also lost nearly 70% value this year. These geniuses just keep geniusing
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Wait Epic is 40% owned by Tencent who have stakes in… Spotify and the major labels. Did we just lose our independent digital record store
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Did you know none of the rest of us can get any vinyl pressed
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7.6M streams = $22,800. We own our masters so we keep 100%, divided by 3 band members = $7,600 income for 2021. Did you know we got a 10.0 on
@pitchfork
? To calculate your own
#SpotifyUnwrapped
multiply streams by $0.003, divide w/label and bandmates
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Invited to talk to a Harvard Law School class about digital music issues - for no pay. Maybe the lesson is complete already?
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Streaming is killing music, to borrow a phrase from the major labels of yore. But as Trent Reznor highlights here, it’s not the technology at fault, it’s the financialization of it. We can change that and rebuild a more equitable and sustainable environment for recording artists
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Let’s talk about how 8.8 million Spotify streams and 2,000 LP sales on Record Store Day made the same money for Galaxie 500 this year - no exaggeration. The same $
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My path in music was shaped by bygone economics much more than bygone technology: cheap rent, cheap rehearsal spaces, cheap venues, cheap gas, cheap flights
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Trying not to take it personally that people were ok with Spotify when they thought it was only hurting artists
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These instafest/spotify postings are salt in the wounds for musicians facing a collapsing tour economy and absurdly insignificant payouts from streaming. Dream on, people - this corporate-directed version of fandom is killing music in ways home taping could never have imagined
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Kate Bush and Steve Albini each earned $200,000 this week - via 57 million streams from a
#1
song, and the World Series of Poker. Don’t tell me music is a crapshoot
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Last week, Ek used $50 million of his own to prop up Spotify’s stock and it still lost another 12%… It’s now below its initial public offering price, meaning no one who ever invested in Spotify for the long term has made any money from it. Just like all us musicians!
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$900 billion relief budget and we get $600 each - congress must have hired Spotify’s accounting team
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Musicians’ expectations are so low, I’ve been shamed for complaining that Galaxie 500 made $33,440 for 8.8 million streams on Spotify this year. There are 3 of us in that band, so that’s $11,147 per musician (gross, not net). What are your expectations, and what should they be?
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Music is labor, labor should be paid fairly. It’s not complicated
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My musician friends and I are seeking a $50 billion bailout some of which will trickle down to the airline industry as we purchase tickets for future tours
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Today, Spotify announced more payola and no more pay than before ($0.0030 a stream). It will also now look more like TikTok - meaning without bribing them for placement in the algorithm’s vertical feed, artists will have even less of a chance of making this platform work for them
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At a penny per stream, you still need 250,000 streams a month to earn the equivalent of a $15/hr job. We aren’t asking for a free lunch. We’re demanding to be paid a minimum for our work. Music made Spotify a $50billion company. And Spotify is not sharing that with musicians
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Glastonbury sold out in an hour without any lineup announcement - which is I think the problem with festivals for artists. It’s the same as streaming: the primary relationship is not between artist and fan, it’s platform and user
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Btw to earn $15/hr it takes 657,895 Spotify streams a month. Per band member
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Working for Musk looks about as attractive as being in Smashing Pumpkins
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Spotify essentially shorted all recorded music, maybe you guys want to do something about that too?
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How a screenwriter explains why they may have to go on strike - to avoid becoming like musicians…
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Spotify bought two unionized podcast production houses for $300 million and ran them into the ground
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If every Joni and Neil Young influenced singer-songwriter walks, Spotify loses all indie rock
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Maybe it’s time for all our favorite music publications to stop posting playlists on Spotify?
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I love LPs but I’m no analog revivalist. I’m ok with the newfound possibilities of digital. What I want back are the economic facts that made a life in the arts more possible: affordable living for all. Fight for that and you’ll be fighting for music. And vice-versa
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And can we talk about credits? Lack of credits on streaming services is indicative of their disrespect to the labor of making recordings. Not only are we missing the names of producers, engineers, mastering engineers... but songwriters, and even the musicians themselves
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What gets me, as everyone faces the inevitable cancellations again, is that we have this miraculous recording technology to share our music at safe distance near and far, and it’s sustaining hardly anyone who actually makes music
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For how many years have we all been told to make up what we can no longer earn from recordings by playing live… read this article
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This would seem a good moment to delete your Spotify account
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Spotify wants to identify working musicians who aren’t benefitting from their model of streaming as amateurs. We’re not amateurs, we are working professionals who are not being paid fairly for our streams
#MakeStreamingPay
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Oh look they didn’t need to call the cops or expel students or cancel commencement
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Spotify says tracks without 1,000 annual streams are worthless. They also estimate their value at $40 million: "In 2024, Spotify expects this will move $40 million that would have previously been paid to tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams to those with more than 1,000 streams."
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If actors and screenwriters need motivation, they could look to music and see what what happens without collective bargaining. Spotify pays us $0.0030 a stream, max. Our touring expenses keep pace with inflation and our fees do not. We’re on our own for healthcare. Pensions? Uh…
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Inaugurating a $2.3 billion venue, Bono thanked the Trump supporter who built it, the highest paid paid exec in the music industry (from Live Nation/TicketMaster), the dude who was sued for monopolizing music publishing, the one who sold out the labels to Apple, etc etc 🤮
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Lars is always at the cutting edge of being an asshole. The rest of us are already waiting a year for access to vinyl pressing - what happens when the plants are not only monopolized but actually owned by Metallica, Ed Sheeran, Adele…
Metallica Sells So Much Vinyl It Just Bought Its Own Pressing Plant
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the super rich live in a hell of their own creation
NO BIG DEAL KENNY G IN MY LIVING ROOM!!! Happy Valentines Day 💋💋💋
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My new hobby is watching Spotify stock crash - another record low today
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I think it was better when tv was free and music cost money
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I’ve played lots of shows at 33% capacity!
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It would take 66 billion 666 million 666 thousand and 667 song streams to earn Joe Rogan’s fee from Spotify
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After 9/11, a group of us in music spoke out for peace and against the invasion of Afghanistan in response, and an exec at a record label I was doing business with said he would never speak with me again
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Bandcamp’s business model is easy to understand but it’s completely opaque what the companies buying and selling it are up to which means it’s only a matter of time till they destroy that sensible business model
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It can be hard to ridicule Spotify cause they do such a good job of that themselves
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if you'd told me 30 years ago that in the future, our records would be played 1 million times every month and we still wouldn't make a living from them, I'd have said: yeah that figures
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How Spotify spends your subscription money, instead of paying musicians fairly
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's multi-million-dollar deal with streaming giant Spotify is to end, report says.
The couple have produced just one series since inking the agreement in 2020 for a reported $20 million
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If you managed to make $1,000 in sales from
@Bandcamp
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Cause I'm vocal with critique about the music industry I get asked a lot, ok but how do you fix it? And the answer is not complicated, it will fit right here in half a tweet: Pay artists fairly for our labor. Pay all workers fairly for labor. You've tried crypto, why not try this
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Galaxie 500 was a “critic’s band” without critics we would just have been lame
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Stunned. Not a friend but a fellow traveler and always so wired full of life. Was seriously hoping a hoax
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My mom’s friend told her a story about trying to sign Sun Ra to a major label contract - Sun Ra refused to sign unless he could keep rights for Saturn. So they went to legal at the label, who refused: “If we give him Saturn, he’ll ask for more”
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Pitchfork’s new reviews explorer uses Spotify’s algorithm, which I guess explains why Naomi and I don’t turn up in “similar artists” for Galaxie 500. Nor does anything by Kramer, for that matter. All that code and you still can’t beat a back cover
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So good to see people look for alternatives to Spotify, but it’s a sign of tech’s deep swindle that anyone wonders what to do without it. Records and downloads work great. If you must stream, there are many commercial services but also some collectives and libraries - poke around
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I once asked Television’s manager why they had gotten back together after so many years - “They never broke up,” he explained. “They just stopped playing together”
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The artist with the lead rave review on
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Fair compensation for streaming royalties would change my life & many others. I make 11000$ a year as a full time/freelance cultural worker & less than 1000 is from streaming royalties. Nothing is driving these new payment schemes other than corporate greed. We need a living wage
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Saw the National once, made me realize what it must be like to be bored by our music
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I think if Brian Wilson had been recording digitally, he’d still be adding tracks to Good Vibrations
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If you’re not benefitting from the current music economy you’re probably a musician
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All this inflation but our recordings are still streaming for $0.0030 funny how that works
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Oh look they found another $235 million not for music!
Spotify is making more podcast moves, acquiring the podcast ad/tech firm Megaphone for $235 million
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Don't want to contribute to a "backlash," cause artists need space to fail - but - production seems fair game. And the album sounds like demos to me till the very last track (Clara Bow), when a group of musicians finally get a crack at one tune...
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In honor of
@BetoORourke
's DIY indie rock past, Naomi and I are auctioning an original Galaxie 500 Tugboat blue vinyl 7" to benefit the
#BetoForTexas
campaign. Don't let our country go to waste! Bid here:
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It’s important to cut through Spotify’s bullshit spin about this - it will benefit the major labels and no one else. No more money is being added to the system. But $40-$46 million will be shifted away from smaller artists/labels and to the majors. That’s all this accomplishes
Spotify has confirmed earlier reports that it will cease royalty payments for tracks with fewer than 1,000 annual streams. Read more ↓
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Neither of them own the rights to any lyrics
Did Google steal lyrics content from Genius? The annotation site says the proof is in the apostrophes.
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Daniel put out an amazing album this winter - 7.9 review in Pitchfork, and every time I play it for people someone asks me what it is and writes it down - but this is what it feels like for him, and for so many working musicians. This has to change! We need to support our artists
I feel like Ive reached the point where I can no longer afford emotionally/financially to do the artist thing. The problem is its all Ive ever done. I dropped out of HS to go on tour & only have spotty misc labor job history. Scholarly aspirations with no degree is even harder…
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We need to regulate streaming - Spotify is not designed to generate income for all of us on the platform. That’s now stated policy
Confirmed: From 2024, tracks on Spotify will have to be played 1,000 times before they start earning money
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Got a request for a song of ours in a supernatural scene of a movie lord let it do a Kate Bush
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Yes the changes in tech mattered - I wrote a book about it - but changes in the material economy for music have been greater than the shift from tape to hard drive
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Before you turn on that leafblower, think how many of your neighbors might be trying to eq a drum overhead mic track
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“a single RCA ribbon microphone suspended above the stage, with a line running to a reel-to-reel tape recorder” and judging by this sample I can’t imagine what more you could possibly want
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Contracts should never be “in perpetuity”
@UMG
won’t give the rights back. We’ve asked. Original advance was tiny, did 3 1/2 records with them that they won’t give back to us after 25+ years now. They keep licensing to crappy reissue companies and we see nothing. Meanwhile, we can’t tour anymore and tour was all our $.
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We need a betting pool for the next rock star to leave Spotify. Thom Yorke gets even money
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Tesla is now a fascist brand, sorry for any friends who might have one but I’d urge trading it fast if you can
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The solidarity in Hollywood is impressive - we have been missing musicians at the top joining the rest of us in common cause over streaming
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I have a friend who has toured the world with bands at every level, including all the prestige festivals and stadiums etc, and she says the ideal venue to see a band is 250 capacity
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