Music Industry

Is this nuts? Have we entered the most twisted era yet of late stage capitalism? Would anybody like to directly stream my catalog but side step the streaming giants?

📈 Just over a year ago, ICMP launched its first ever tech driven copyright enforcement tool for members - The Anti-Piracy Platform (APP) powered by MUSO. The APP crawls for illegal content and automatically notifies websites, search engines, social media, cyberlockers, bit torrents, payment services and many other digital services of unlicensed us... See more

Aye yay yay. Tonight I saw a Story shared by the great @the_dead_dirtbag who spotted a strange looking band on his Spotify. The “band” is Velvet Sundown - a clearly obvious AI creation with a chatGPT style bio, 300k followers, and two weeks of existence. We ta... See more

“When musicians can afford to pay rent, put food on the table, make music and play shows, everyone benefits”. But when they can’t, the entire economy suffers. – Luc Rinald, The Walrus In “The Death of the Middle-Class Musician”, Rinaldi lays bare the quiet collapse of a once-vibrant ecosystem and the plight of the worki... See more

Really grateful for @rollingstone taking the time to interview me about @austere @artisthous.e and The Iconic Artist Blueprint. 😫🥹 Swipe to read it here or on their site in my bio 🔗