5 posts and columns on record industry

Now I Wanna Sell This Record Directly to the Fans

What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down?

– Iggy Pop, on why he decided to sell his new album himself

I Am Steve Albini, Ask Me Anything

There won’t ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that’s fine with me because that industry didn’t operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

– Music legend Steve Albini on Reddit

Voices

Record Exec Says Music's Future Is in the Clouds

in News on February 23, 2009 at 1:50 pm PT

Terry McBride thinks the smartphone is going to upend the current version of the record industry as profoundly as the iPod changed the last one. In a speech to college musicians, Mr. McBride said smartphone apps “will radically change the business.”