Streaming services like Spotify and Rdio erode musicians’ ability to support themselves and sustain their musical careers. In order to earn a US monthly minimum wage, an artist would need to sell 143 self-pressed CD’s a month, 155 CD’s on CD Baby, 1,229 album downloads on iTunes, or get 4,053,110 track plays on Spotify. Lady […]
Deer Tick must be one of the hardest working bands around. In the four years since they graced The Media Club’s floor and played a fantastic set to the lucky fifty or so people that turned out that night, they’ve recorded five albums and played masses of shows all over the world. From their humble […]
photo by Daegal Almond[/caption] With day one of Vancouver’s freezing fog touching down on the city, we prepare for a night of ‘70s horror synth driven prog. With a fitting sense of unease, we stroll down glorious East Hastings, past the Wild Man Fischer lookalikes, to the wonderfully unassuming Rickshaw Theatre. Being unfashionably early, I […]
Streaming services like Spotify and Rdio erode musicians’ ability to support themselves and sustain their musical careers. In order to earn a US monthly minimum wage, an artist would need to sell 143 self-pressed CD’s a month, 155 CD’s on CD Baby, 1,229 album downloads on iTunes, or get 4,053,110 track plays on Spotify. Lady […] 