Why Big Music sucks and local/indie music is where it’s at
From an article in The Guardian, yet another case study of a band being chewed up and spit out by the recording industry:
This, of course, is something that has been happening to all moderately successful groups since the dawn of rock itself, thanks in part to the music industry’s innate refusal to ever learn the lessons of history. So what if the fate of Kurt Cobain, Syd Barrett, Ian Curtis and every other sacrificial victim of the rock whirl suggests that the talent of creative types might not be best served by endless graft? They rarely complain, do they? And so, to paraphrase Allen Ginsberg, we watch the best minds of successive generations destroyed by drum sound checks, in-store appearances, a surfeit of free drink, and the eventual hatred of their own art
The article relates the state of a new band, The Kaiser Chiefs, back from their first tour in support of a big label CD, and pulls no punches about how they are treated.
Administrator said,
January 3, 2006 at 8:28 am
Here’s another sobering look at how the music industry screws musicians:
Steve Albini article