“If an artist says something, but they don’t say it in their own voice, do they really say it at all?”

It wasn’t much more than a taunt, a ditty really.  The sort of thing you’d imagine school children chanting in the school yard.

The one-price-fits-all age of streaming has become instrumental in the shaping of our collective perception of the value of music.

Introduction: Echoes of Silence I spent my last four years of schooling at a Quaker school.  Every Sunday morning, we were required to...

Introduction: Social/Streaming Compactor “How should I put it?  It's like the trash compactor scene in the first Star Wars film. The...

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The individual voices of millions of artists are lost to the deafening din of en masse upload.

Rejection is so much a part of grassroots music-making, paying for the privilege is now entirely normalized on the independent music scene. 

In keeping with my "Electronic Silent Night”, the accompanying video is quirky and fun.  In it we imagine a very merry Christmas for Robots.

I'd been there for hours, I think. Inexplicably, unable to move under some great weight of indescribable terror.

Over the years, one way in which I have found it helpful to think about criticism, is as falling into two types.

Consider the tracks that fall short of Spotify’s new royalty model, the number of artists that will be financially disenfranchised is huge,

Introduction: Paint it Black “I see a red door And I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black” There is, in my...

For better or for worse, for hit or miss, “90 Seconds to Midnight” is exactly what I wanted it to be.  

Introduction: My Music. My Terms. In our brave new digital world, content has been rendered all but worthless, and the evolution of...

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