It's worth noting that Dave Allen has major, indie and entrepreneurial experience. He's the founding bassist of Gang of Four.
I really like this essay for the fact that the problems of the industry are not solved by anything that exists at the intersection of VC money and label money.
Lets put it this way: if every one of the four majors stopped signing acts, fired their A&R staff and just focused on precision, AARRR pirate style marketing of catalog, they'd last a lot longer than they will at the rate they're going.
The problems of a diminishing business can't be solved by incrementally improving what is already being done on the backs of money that just sustains the hegemony. It will come with very real disruption.
I think that this will however offshoot out of the Pandora's, Spotify's, Grooveshark's, MOG's, RDIO's, iTunes' and Amazon's of the world. I just don't think we're there yet.
It's still too caught up on the song, file and data aspect of "play" rather than a real adaptation to the changing role of music and music as a holistic cultural experience rather than an artifact/entity.
I really like this essay for the fact that the problems of the industry are not solved by anything that exists at the intersection of VC money and label money.
Lets put it this way: if every one of the four majors stopped signing acts, fired their A&R staff and just focused on precision, AARRR pirate style marketing of catalog, they'd last a lot longer than they will at the rate they're going.
The problems of a diminishing business can't be solved by incrementally improving what is already being done on the backs of money that just sustains the hegemony. It will come with very real disruption.
I think that this will however offshoot out of the Pandora's, Spotify's, Grooveshark's, MOG's, RDIO's, iTunes' and Amazon's of the world. I just don't think we're there yet.
It's still too caught up on the song, file and data aspect of "play" rather than a real adaptation to the changing role of music and music as a holistic cultural experience rather than an artifact/entity.
Anyhooooo....