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Goodbye, Steve.

It was only appropriate that I found out about the death of Steve Jobs while checking the news on my iPhone, during a band practice where my Macbook Pro was triggering samples from Apple MainStage....

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The 2011 Nully Awards: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of The Past Year’s Music

The Good: Epic Tales of Epic Epicness Award Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials Another big, brash, over-the-top album from Florence Welch and company.  Big drums, lush orchestrations and...

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You Decide Why Your Band Sucks

Your album is brilliant! And yet it’s so overlooked! All people want is pabulum like what’s on the radio! I got news for ya, pal. The crap on the radio? It may be crap, but it’s extremely well-crafted...

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Adversaries and Industries.

On this blog I’ve shied away from addressing much about industrial music, because despite my history as an industrial/goth club kid in the 90’s, Null Device hasn’t really been making that sort of music...

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“Just Play Live” Is Not A Sustainable Business Model

David Lowery’s blog post “Meet The New Boss” recently hit Slashdot, and as these things often do, generated a lot of commentary.  Most of which was pretty uninformed and baseless, unfortunately (but...

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Vertical Integration for Musicians

In every discussion of the “new paradigm” for music distribution, at least one person always suggests “buy direct from the artist” and cut out the middlemen (oft referred to as “parasites” or “evil” or...

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On Volunteerism, Bad Timing, And Being Professional-ish.

Null Device is looking for horny string players for every city!  Professional-esque players only – you don’t need to be a pro, but you need to be the type of person who can play Bach’s Chaconne three...

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Kickstarter Fatigue

Crowdsourcing for artists is steadily gaining traction. The infamous Ms. Palmer (of whom I have Opinions) had her big TED talk about it, that seemed to wow all the silicon valley types that attend...

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The Musical Middle Class, and the False Dichotomy of Musician/Everyone Else

I was having another one of my long, nerdy discussions with Dan Clark, and he expressed some consternation at the fact that much of what’s out on the internet and media regarding “the music industry”...

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Audio Misogyny

sE Electronics, a maker of some often nice audio products, recently put an ad in Sound On Sound magazine for their new low-end condenser mic, the “Magneto.” Nothing too unusual about that. What was...

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