{"id":190,"date":"2009-08-04T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-08-04T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T21:34:12","slug":"tuesday_night_music_club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/08\/tuesday_night_music_club\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Night Music Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, Charles Blow opined<\/a> in the New York Times<\/i> that “the music industry’s deathwatch kicked off about a decade ago, but it seems the vigil could soon be over.” <\/p>\n

Over?<\/p>\n

Over!<\/p>\n

What will we talk about at music industry conferences now? Wait, what? No<\/i> music industry conferences! Not even cocktails?<\/p>\n

I particularly liked the scary graphic<\/a>, which I can’t quite figure out how to read, but it certainly seems like a vision of Doom!<\/p>\n

Commenter Ladislav Nemec of California responded to Blow’s article by offering up a “Let them eat cake” solution: Sell only classical music. “I used to buy only ‘classical music’ written, for the most part by Very Dead White Men….Blow does not speculate what the future holds. It seems to be just wonderful: the Stars of Pop Music will get much, much less money, will not be able to build Neverlands and, possibly, will use fewer drugs.”<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that is exactly how it will play out. It may be the “anyone can make a record and distribute it online” age, but it still takes cash and\/or the talent\/skill\/equipment equivalent to make a great recording. And if recording still costs, it’s the performers already making bank on their live shows who are going to have the discretionary cash to keep putting record after record out into the marketplace. No, I worry about the folks who hustle and hustle and finally make a record, maybe even make a (relatively) big splash record and get to be interviewed on NPR and have nice things blogged about them. And then only a handful of people buy it. And then everyone goes home, on to the next thing, and the artist is left with a closet full of unsold cds and a creative hangover. <\/p>\n

So the supply and demand balance is off. The delivery methods aren’t attractive enough to consumers to close the deal. We don’t trust the major labels and there are too many indie ones for a consumer to track. Journalists and the music mags that once employed them are riding their very own personal downward spiral in the wake of the great, voracious, unharnessable maw that is internet chatter. And actually that’s the state of the music industry that I know, and it’s a crueler picture than any pie chart could present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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