Musiker

Nasse Füße machen krank Spotify – der, die oder das ist in allen Ohren. Wer hat es nicht, wer nutzt es nicht und wer regt sich nicht über die Werbung auf, weil man sich den Premium-Account nicht leisten kann oder will. Es ist eine Selbstverständlichkeit, Millionen von Musiktiteln kostenlos zum anhören dargeboten zu bekommen. Da…

I think it is a wonderful development of our time that so much music, and other media are streaming and available to anyone on the internet, regardless of physical place. To me, it’s an exciting thing when someone in the most seemingly remote part of the world, has discovered your music and was able to…

As a personal user, I like the ease of Spotify, and being able to access all that music at once, from anywhere. However, as a musican who knows how Spotify works, and how poorly it pays to artists, I kind of feel bad listening to bands through Spotify, and I try to buy any record…

Raj Dawson von Mystery Pills: For totally unknown artists (like me) who aren’t selling much music in the first place, it seems like streaming services can’t do much harm, but without at least the offer of paid download options there isn’t much incentive for me to park my music somewhere unless there’s some social component…

In response to the question on the world of streaming, I can only answer as a consumer and not as a band. I’m afraid we’re too new in terms of releases to really be able to tell what’s profitable and not. I can tell you that the music industry has taken an obvious shift. Bands…

„I think for convenience streaming is good for music fans but for a musician it’s just another case of somebody else making more money from my own music than I do. The pennies are just a PR expense for them.“ Dies ist der zweite Teil einer kleinen Reihe, in der ich Musiker zu ihrer Sicht…