ISSUE 13: HABIT
With essays and features that touch on how our relationship with music becomes a habit – in the practice of music-making, of fandom, but also some of the destructive tendencies that are often part of the music industry.
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Would You Congratulate Me if I Got a Job at Spotify?
Together, we can resist precarity. In the same way that sharing pay rates with one another increases our collective ability to bargain for fairer compensation, finding commonality through the exploitative nature of our work helps build empathy and collective power.
Toronto Hardcore Legends Fucked Up Build on Their Galvanizing Sound 'One Day' at a Time
Toronto hardcore legends Fucked Up have always been a thoughtful group. So when it came to writing and recording their sixth full-length album in the middle of a time of lockdowns and uncertainty, they found that trying something a bit different could be just the right creative catalyst.
Hipgnosis, Song Acquisition, and the Elephant in the Room
On January 24, Justin Bieber joined a sea of music legends surrendering their copyrights, unloading his entire music catalogue to U.K. investment manager Hipgnosis Song Management for a cool $200 million USD.
Bieber’s catalogue, Hipgnosis’s biggest acquisition to date, is the latest blockbuster deal in an IP
Algorithmic Tastemakers and Seven-Second Wonders
FKA Rayne, Eve Parker Finley and the Tiktokification of the music industry
The Ones Left Behind
I have had many bad days in my life, so awful they remain burned into the black matter of my brain: the day I got my first diagnosis; the Christmas I spent stuck in the emergency room; the day my father died; and even the day I lost my best
ISSUE 12: Breaking Point
We consider what it will take for things to change, given that they weren’t working before the pandemic, and they certainly aren’t working now.