This Seattle weekly article provides numbers and musicians personal experiences to make the economic case for giving music away (AND selling it.) I’ve quoted a bit from the piece here for you:
“If you look at the numbers from traditional record contracts, only the elite of the elite, the top 1 to 5 percent, would make [...]
A subtly dark story told with wide eyed irony, a kind of perfect one person Fringe show that sums up the odd moral landscape of the relationship between storytelling and audience.
Teaching the Fringe
Keir Cutler is in the Fringe pantheon, he is one of those regulars who returns with a new show or a remount of [...]
Review of Editors live at Club Soda in Montreal on January 20th 2007
I arrived at Club Soda at 9:30pm (about an hour before I usually think about leaving the house for a show), forgetting that larger venues like Metropolis, La Tulipe, le National, and Club Soda actually start on time, and on time is early.
Here’s [...]
A few weeks ago, one of my dance dates told me that she expects dance to either make her laugh or cry, that anything else is useless to her. While I don’t think I’m anywhere near as extreme as she is, I understand what she means; I do expect dance (or any art form for [...]
Fringe Festivals!! Good GAAWD I love them so. Why are they so effin’ fun??? What makes them so awwwwwesome? What magic potion of coolness do they brew?
Thoughts: collect thyself.
Ahem.
I just awoke from a surreal four/five hours of sleep, after an overnight “escape” from TO. We left the beer [...]