Well, you cannot quite take your gigantic modular synth in the cabin yet, but the European Parliament calls for a revised "Air Passenger Rights" that will settle down and harmonize how air companies view musicians taking small instruments with them, in the cabin, in Europe. The precise wording will generate smiles on thousands of musicians' faces as it was, up to now, very much different from airport to airport and from companies to companies...
Thanx to the excellent Make It In Music for pointing us an article on CMU about Ten Tips for New Bands.
And looking at the article, we would say that those tips seem obvious from a distance, but many bands, even already established, do not take enough attention to point 4: "Write an agreement between bandmates".
It all looks great when starting a band with your pals and, honestly, it doesn't feel like anything bad can happen but when money is involved (we wish you to make some when selling your work) EVERYTHING can happen.
After all the displays of attention on the infamous Women's International Day, and while everyone is now cruising to the next WID without caring much, let's have a look at some numbers showing exactly how disproportionate the amount of women in music really is. Frightening.
female:pressure is a support network and database of women working in the electronic music and/or digital art. They have collect numbers that show how litle women are represented in these fields and call up for a welcome change indeed.
2013 does indeed feel different than the other 12 years since the Great Debacle that started in 2000. The latest IFPI document states it clearly: sales are on the rise, thanx to digital is taking more shares of the overall sales and the industry seems to have decided to go WITH it rather than fighting it blindly.
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., more known as Snoop Dogg, Snoop Lion or DJ Snoopadelic, is a man constantly on the move, something he may have promised to himself when being jailed as a teenager or standing
trial for murder (he was acquitted).
Lady Gaga started her "Born This Way Ball" tour last april in Asia and the (so-far) 98 concerts make up for one of the biggest grossing 2012 tour it's also an enduring process that can end up in tears if things don't go as planned....And it did happen: Gaga has to cancel more than 20 dates in North America...
What is there to do on 21/12/2012 while waiting for the End Of The World promised by the Mayans (the real ones, not Jake's friends from Sons of Anarchy) ? Well, you could go to Das Gift, a Berlin bar who's owners (Rachel and Barry Burns, a scottish couple deeply in love with Arts and Music....and Whisky. Actually Barry is in...Mogwai) lend their place to Lars and Peter and their bi-monthly Taste The Doom event.
There's something inbuild in our brain, and in the planet around us, that seems to breakdown advances in all matters as down to three factors:
COPYING
COMBINING
TRANSFORMING
Thru history, again and again, we can pinpoint changes are the effects of elements that have been studied by someone, then transformed and combine to get to a new level that, itself, later, will see new changes that will elevate in to the next level.
