The Problem with Music

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I found a music lawyer and showed him the contract.

Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

Be very careful when negotiating the term of a management deal. Many artists have lived to regret being tangled up in long-term contracts with lousy managers.

Donald S. Passman • All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition

sound recording, in its time, was seen by many as a major threat to the performing arts.

Warren C. Gibson • The World's Your Stage: How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love

Hunter S. Thompson once said that “the music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.” And then he quipped, “There’s also a negative side.”

Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

In the early days of social media, companies made blogging technologies with the promise that writers would be able to communicate directly with their readers. This pattern played out in industry after industry. But these changes left creators at the mercy of companies far more powerful, far more ruthless, and far less accountable than the record l... See more

theatlantic.com • NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don't. - The Atlantic

I didn’t know what was worse: that the owner of my label didn’t know who Radiohead was, or that he didn’t know that Radiohead had released a free record THREE WEEKS AGO in a move that had the ENTIRE MUSIC INDUSTRY talking.