It’s always good when a skim of blogs and newspaper sites reveal a common topic, and today has been a bumper harvest, so here’s a few links to some rather interesting points of view:<\/p>\n
First up there’s this article<\/a> in the Guardian by composer John Woolrich about ignoring musical categories. One sentence sticks out beautifully:<\/p>\n “Many people are hungry for anything that sounds a bit different, uses sound in a new way and sets itself apart from the naked consumerism of commercial pop.” Onto the permanently outspoken Victor Stone at Virtual Turntable<\/a>, who, not content with having just completed an excellent five part series<\/a> debunking many myths and giving many splendid pointers about music composition, now picks up the ongoing discussion about the pros and cons of signing the “big record deal”, initially in response to an article on Brad Sucks<\/a>, which itself was a comment on an Ask Metafilter<\/a> thread, and then carries it back to his own site, the better to state his case<\/a>.<\/p>\n (If you’re digging through this and are interested, or have never read them, don’t fail to check out Steve Albini’s “The Problem With Music”<\/a> and both of Courtney Love’s speeches (one<\/a>, two<\/a>) that are referenced within the above links – although now both a few years old, these articles eloquently target the perpetual problems that still exist in the ol’ Music Biz – Eye-peeling reading for the uninitiated, indeed).<\/p>\n
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\nCommon sense to some, maybe, but it’s always good to see it written about with such enthusiasm, especially from one who probably has very little interest in the week-to-week changes of fashion and taste that usually blight newspaper music journalism.<\/p>\n