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Please enjoy this special interview with the great Anders Osborne, in the lead up to his appearance at the Music on the Mountain festival, after the Divided Sky Fun(d) Run on May 18 in Vermont.
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Thanks for joining us for this conversation with Eggy!
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Happy New Year! In this episode of The Drop, we run down the NYE shows, talk about what's coming from Osiris, and look forward to 2024.
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We are back with a new episode of The Drop, with an interview with Tom Hamilton at the Ardmore Music Hall before his show with MORE! Thanks to CashorTrade for bringing us back. We're proud to be working with them to help fans buy, sell and trade tickets at face value.
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Today we're bringing you a special interview with Daniel Donato, recorded live at Ardmore Music Hall before his show there on Thursday 10/19. We talk about his music, his journey as an artist, his bucket list collaborators, and more. And you can hear Daniel play an unreleased song off his upcoming album, which you can pre-order here. You can listen to his recent shows here.
And thanks to Rythm, who helped make that interview possible.
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- HF Pod 40 for 40 continues on and hits 2006 this week.
- Mike Gordon on Inside the Musician's Brain!
- Stewart Copeland on Wheels Off!
- Stay tuned for an Undermine Special Report on Tom's new material debuted by Phish this tour.
- Check out Show on the Road, a new show with recent interviews with The Revivalists and Smash Mouth.
- Goose Chicks Pod recaps Summer Tour 2023.
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- The Mann / Ardmore Music Hall details
- Hold the date 8/5 at The Bitter End NYC for an HFP 10th anniversary party
- Alan Paul, author of "Brothers And Sisters." Check it out!
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- Osiris Live at Ardmore (7/25-26) and save the date for HFP10 in NYC.
- HF Pod Quick Hits after every show.
- We've Got A Band with Dan Kanter.
- No Simple Road with Bill Walton and Latin Dead
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- Events! Asbury Park (7/7) and Ardmore / The Mann (7/24-25).
- HF Podhits 2004.
- Inappropriate Happinessnew episode.
- Everything you need at Osiris!
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Karina Rykman on a Joyride. So fun to hear her talk about how this album came together with collaborators like Trey Anastasio, Aron Magner, and more.
We’ve Got A Band: Chris Witaske and Austen Kroll. Our first two interviews from this series are live, and they’re hilarious and informative. Hear stories about the Chicago Harpua from Chris Witaske, and about show adventures with Austen Kroll. More this week!
HF Pod on 2001. We dive into TAB from 2001 today live at 4pm ET. [link]
Flocking Outside—Megan and Brian talk Goose fandom. Brian from Attendance Bias is hosting this series about Goose from 3 Phish fans.
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We've Got A Band. Subscribe to the Undermine feed so you don't miss it. This special series includes interviews with people like The Bear” actor Chris Witaske, Bravo star Austen Kroll, “127 Hours” mountaineer Aron Ralston, The Sloppy Boys’ Mike Hanford, journalists Katy Tur and Jake Sherman, comedian Scott Rogowsky, musician Dan Kanter, and others. Sponsored by Section 119.
Brokedown Podcast new episode with Aaron Feder.
Beyond the Pond will be back with some 2023 / 2003 comparisons.
Things of Gold is back looking at a Snarky Puppy show from 2017.
And HF Pod continues on with our 40 for 40 series, looking at 9/15/00.
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New pods!
- The Jauntee on No Simple Road
- 40 for 40 on Phish 1998
- Chris Wood on Inside the Musician’s Brain
- Inappropriate Happiness on Jazz Fest
- Always Almost There on Goose Madison to New Orleans
- Goose Chicks Pod on Q&A with Twitter Friends
Reads: Why Steely Dan Sounds Perfect Right Now
Reads: The National: Moon Drop Light
And check out the April/May 2023 issue of Relix issue featuring a Dave Matthews Band cover story, plus Graham Nash, Wayne Shorter, ALO, Ivan Neville, Eric Krasno & Stanton Moore, and more.
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- Live Nation’s Michael Rapino on Bob Lefsetz’s Podcast.If you’re interested in and following the ticketing stories, this is a really good listen.
- No Simple Road with Jake from Eggy. New episode out now, where the team interviews Jake Brownstein from Eggy. They are starting their tour today, catch them at EggyMusic.com/tour.
- JamBase Podcast season 2.Our partners at the JamBase podcast have launched season 2 of the show with some great guests, including Nils Lofgren, John Medeski, Cory Wong, Oteil Burbridge, and more.
- Undermine / HF Pod new episodes! We continue our 40 for 40 by looking at 1996 on HF Pod (May 5, 4pm ET live), and Undermine is back with Island Tour episodes next week.
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- Goose! Kicking ass out there on tour, you can see recaps every day after the show on Always Almost There. Also, the Goose Chicks Pod has just recapped the Chicago run and has new episodes coming out every week.
- Phish! HF Pod is live today with part 2 of the Spring Tour recap, and we pick up our 40 for 40 series again next week. And Undermine comes back soon with Island Tour 25th anniversary recaps.
- Karina! Seth Meyers guest and phenom Karina Rykman is back with new episodes of Inappropriate Happiness every Friday.
- Hiss Golden Messenger! Chris Pandolfi's interview with MC Taylor of Hiss was insightful, inspiring, candid, and you don't want to miss it.
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Today we bring you an interview with Chris Pandolfi, the banjo player from The Infamous Stringdusters. They have a new album coming out today: A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs, via their label, Americana Vibes. We talk about the album and the launch of season 4 of Chris's podcast, Inside the Musician's Brain. The first episode, out now, is with MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger.
Also, Megan Glionna from HF Pod was a guest on No Simple Road this week.
And HF Pod recaps the first leg of the 2023 Phish Spring Tour today, check that out live at 4pm ET or listen to it later wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Undermine returns! We examine the New Year’s Run from 1997, and we’ll be looking at the 1998 Island Tour right after Phish’s Spring Tour wraps up. So look out for that, and catch up now.
- Phish on tour—HF Pod has you covered. Of course, Phish’s Spring Tour starts today in Seattle, and we’ll be recapping these shows on HF Pod. If you don’t follow HF Pod, please do. And we’re continuing our 40 for 40 series, today we’re going to do a live episode on 1995 at 4pm ET, and it’ll be released as a podcast shortly thereafter.
- Music Masters Collective. Shout out to our friends at MMC, a non-profit organization that produces unique music events, providing opportunities for fans and artists to meet and collaborate in an inspired and creative atmosphere. Every week, they host different events, all with the opportunity to learn from world-class musicians like our friends Oteil Burbridge, The Milk Carton Kids, and many more. This June, there’s an event called Magical Mystery Camp for musicians and music fans, and featuring a ton of great musicians.
- 10 New Albums. Pitchfork shares a list of 10 new albums you can listen to, which I find extremely helpful. Check out new music!
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- Boygenius album out today! It’s called the record and I can’t wait to listen to it. Here’s a Rolling Stone piece about them.
- The Lingering Beauty of Elliott Smith. This New Yorker piece looks at this complicated, but widely adored, artist. It’s a great read if you’re a fan, and if you’re not, you should be.
- John Medeski on the JamBase Podcast. The amazing keyboardist talks from Jam Cruise about the art of improvisation.
- New Music Check In on HF Pod Premium. If you want to support Osiris, and hear about some new music from Jonathan and RJ, check out Osiris Premium.
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- New show—Things of Gold! A Snarky Puppy podcast. Check it out.
- HF Pod 40 for 40—We're rolling on to 1993 next week, catch up now!
- Orebolo / Osiris at Garcia's—In case you missed that episode.
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Today we're bringing you "A Conversation and Music"—a show we held this past weekend at Garcia's, featuring Rick Mitarotonda, Peter Anspach and Jeff Arevalo of Goose and Orebolo. The show was hosted by Tom Marshall and RJ Bee of Osiris Media. The song and discussion timings are below. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for tuning in.
0:00-8:15 — Intro conversation
8:15-22:45 — Silver Rising / Honeybee
22:45-41:20 — Discussion
41:20-57:40 — Dripfield / Thatch
57:40-1:16:40 — Discussion
1:16:40-End —Meat / This Old Sea
Note: We had an audio recording issue, so the last 20 minutes of the recording are from a backup source. Thanks for understanding.
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- Women’s History Month pioneers: the women of Osiris! We have some amazing podcasters I want to give a shout out to, including Dawn from Phemale-Centrics; Karina Rykman from Inappropriate Happiness; Leah and Taraleigh from Groove Therapy; Maggie Rose from Salute the Songbird; Katie Pruitt from The Recovering Catholic; Leslie, Alexius and the team from Goose Chicks Pod; Megan from HF Pod; Mel from No Simple Road; and Kirsten and Christina who helped grow Osiris. Thank you.
- New album from Page and Trey! This album, January, just dropped today and it’s awesome. Atmospheric sounds, beautiful songs, don’t miss it.
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- Women’s History Month pioneers: Beyonce. This incredible artist now holds the record for Grammy wins, with 32. Not only is she an amazing singer, performer, and songwriter, she’s also pushing new boundaries, like in her most recent album, Renaissance. Here’s a Beyonce Spotify playlist.
- Dance Yourself Free. This is a podcast from NPR’s Throughline, which draws a line from Beyonce’s Renaissance to Chicago’s house music origins. Great listen.
- Love Rising in Nashville. To try and counter some of the extreme anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that has been passed in Tennessee, Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, Brittany Howard, Hozier, and more will perform in a benefit concert in Nashville on March 20. Tickets go on sale today.
- Festivals festivals festivals. Just this week we have new or updated lineups from Summer Camp, Catbird, Sound on Sound, Rye Bread Music and Arts, and more. And a new Inappropriate Happiness tomorrow will dive into some of these.
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- Women’s History Month pioneers: Billie Holiday. This month, we’re going to look at some of the countless women who have transformed the music we know and love. Here’s one Billie Holliday playlist.
- Karina and Marco back on tour. There’s a Marco Benevento tour coming up this weekend, featuring our friend Karina Rykman. Check them out if you can, and check out her show, Inappropriate Happiness.
- HF Pod hits 1990. We’re continuing to celebrate 40 years of Phish, most recently looking at 9/13/90 from the Wetlands.
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- AI Creeping Into the “Functional” Music Market. There are millions of AI-powered “songs,” dreamscapes, sleep sounds, etc. Is this good, or bad?
- Dark Side of the Moon at 50. The Ringer does a great breakdown of the legacy of this classic album, which we’ll be hearing about all year.
- Phish Summer Tour on sale today! See you out there.
- Goose at The Cap. Live streaming all 5 shows, and let us know if you have questions you want us to ask during our show on Sunday 3/12.
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Please share and review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Today we're doing something a little different. I asked people on social media to share albums they're listening to. I couldn't get them all onto the show, so here's 10 to check out.
- Charley Crockett: The Man from Waco (from Stu Kelly)
- Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World (many)
- Sunny War: Anarchist Gospel (Graig)
- Maggie Rose: Have a Seat (from Dave)
- Wet Leg: Self Titled (YouEnjoyMySocks)
- House Band: 1 (Gregg Carey)
- The Arcs: Electrophonic Chronic (many)
- Dawes: Misadventures of Doomscroller (Ryan Molnar)
- Weyes Blood: And In The Darkness, Hearts Algow (Ed)
- Elkhorn: Distances (Vinyl Guru)
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- Oteil, Medeski, Maggie Rose, Vernon Reid, and more LIVE from Asheville. The full set of music played last night is up on YouTube, check this out. This is part of a new show called No Simple Disruption, which is a platform for young poets and spoken-word artists to share, collaborate, and engage.
- Joel Cummins Keyboard Rig with Storm Sound. Joel breaks down his full keyboard rig for Ryan Storm.
- Always Almost There live with Peter Anspach Thursday 3pm ET! Ryan and the team, who are in the middle of their “Jam of the Year” bracket, will talk with Peter about all things Goose.
- Today in Phish history: 2/16/03. This really great tour starts to pick up steam in Vegas.
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- Phish Summer Tour! We’re getting 7 shows at MSG, and a lot more. What do you think?
- Today in Phish History. A few shows to check out—2/15/03, 2/15/93, 2/15/91.
- Phish’s 40th anniversary. What do you think they’ll do to celebrate the 40th? All ideas welcomed. We discuss this on a bonus HF Pod episode, which will be live next Monday. Support Osiris Premium here.
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- Steven Hyden “wildly speculates” about an Oasis reunion. What do you think? Could they come back? Should they come back?
- Rob and Chuck from moe. on Comes A Time. As you may know, Chuck Garvey survived a coma and stroke and Rob recovered from cancer, and they’re still going!
- The Sphere is on! U2 announces their shows in a Super Bowl commercial last night.
- HF Pod 40 for 40 hits 1988 today. We’re live with another show this afternoon, join us!
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- Steve Albini on why he hates Steely Dan. This is kind of his schtick, he has said negative things about Phish and lots of other bands. Here’s what he said: “will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan… Christ the amount of human effort wasted to sound like an SNL band warm up.” Do you love or hate Steely Dan?
- Jack Antonoff on Ticket “Chaos”: It’s Not ‘Cause of Artists. If you want me to stop talking about this, let me know. In this interview, the superstar producer and musician opens up about the ticket fiascos we’re seeing.
- Pavement live on Austin City Limits. There’s a rare television performance by the band on PBS. Check it out.
- David Byrne’s Valentine’s Day Spotify playlist. I’m not even really a Valentine’s Day person, but hey, it’s David Byrne.
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- Skull & Roses coming to Ventura County Fairgrounds. We’re proud to partner with this festival that explores unique interpretations of Grateful Dead music at California’s legendary Ventura County Fairgrounds April 19-23, 2023.
- Backstreets closes after 43 years. This Bruce Springsteen fanzine that was founded in 1980 decided to stop publishing. We’ve talked a lot about how fans typically don’t hold artists responsible for this rise in ticket prices, but here’s an example of something that happened as a result. And fans who are holding the artist accountable. We’ll see how much more this happens.
- Goose Chicks Pod talks about Goose and love. As we approach Valentine’s Day, we have a new episode from the Goose Chicks Podcast about the people who have found lasting love and connection via the Goose community. Really cool.
- HF Pod 40 for 40 rambles on! We're continuing our celebration of 40 years of Phish! This year we cover 1987. And today we have a great show in Phish history, 2/8/91 from Portsmouth, NH.
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- Congrats to Snarky Puppy! They won for the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, which is amazing. We should mention, of course, that we produced a podcast with them about the making of this album. This is their 5th Grammy. Congrats to their whole team.
- Congrats to Eric Krasno! A song he co-wrote with Dave Gutter for Aaron Neville and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, “Stompin’ Ground,” won Best American Roots Performance. Check out his podcast, Eric Krasno Plus One.
- Huge night for Harry Styles, Brandi Carlisle, Beyoncé, Bonnie Raitt, and more. And Kim Petras and Sam Smith won a Grammy for the best pop or group performance for their viral hit “Unholy.” Petras is the first trans woman to win in the category. And Beyoncé goes on to have the most Grammys of any individual artist. Congrats!
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- New Inappropriate Happiness with Karina Rykman and Isaac Slone. Karina and Isaac are great—they talk about tours, shows they’ve seen, and a lot more. I look forward to hearing from them every week, and there’s a new episode today.
- Merck Mercuriadis talks about the future of acquiring song catalogs. I mentioned last week that Justin Bieber’s catalog had been acquired for $200M, that was Merck’s company, Hipgnosis. In this interview, he talks about the acquisition of catalogs and what it means to him. They’ve sent about $3B over the past 10 years, acquiring 60,000 songs from huge artists across the board. Fascinating.
- New Unknown Mortal Orchestra double album coming March 17. The New Zealand based band is set to release their first album since 2018, and they have a new single, Layla, out today. You can watch that on Relix.
- Springsteen is back on tour! This is so exciting. Bruce kicked off the first E Street Band tour in six years in Tampa on Wednesday with a 28-song set that lasted almost 3 hours.
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- The New Weird Virtuosos Making Jazz for the Post-Internet Age. From our friend Andy Cush, there’s a profile of artists like DOMi & JD Beck (who also happen to be nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist) and how these amazing, young jazz players are mixing in the humor and viral potentiality of the online age to create a new following and very interesting music.
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced. This year has a really eclectic list, from Willie Nelson, Missy Elliott, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael and Sheryl Crow, to Kate Bush, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, The Spinners, A Tribe Called Quest, The White Stripes and Warren Zevon. Who got snubbed? Who should be next?
- New music for 2023! Pitchfork released a rundown of a lot of music coming up in 2023. Too much to name, but check out the list. I’m looking forward to new albums from boygenius, The National, and Yo La Tengo.
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- Marc Brownstein rig tour with Ryan Storm. Our friend Ryan has a few of these video rig tours lined up, if you haven’t seen them, you gotta check them out. Brand new today is Marc Brownstein! Next week is Neal Francis, and Joel Cummins of Umphrey’s the week after that.
- Rock Docs Pod on Born To Run with … me! I got to be a guest on this podcast to talk about a documentary called Wings To Wheels, about the making of this classic Bruce album. It was a lot of fun.
- Re:SET music festival aims to change the way music festivals engage with fans. Just announced, Re:SET will hit 12 cities this Summer, featuring LCD Soundsystem, Boygenius and Steve Lacy. In each city, fans will have a unique experience—allowing the headlining acts to curate the lineup for their respective day.
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- AI coming for music. One of the big stories of the past few months has been ChatGPT and how that affects our lives. I’m following this story about Google’s creation on the music side, called MusicLM.
- Warner shifting vinyl production to decrease environmental impact. One of the big 3 labels says it’ll shift from 180g to 140g vinyl, investing in ways to produce records without PVC, and adopting recycling from production offcuts. They’ll also move more production to the US. Here’s a fact to keep in mind for collectors: Pressing plants can use antiquated steam boilers and a toxic brew of chemicals to make records, giving vinyl 12 times the greenhouse gas emissions of other physical media production like CDs.
- No Simple Road trucking on. If you’re a Dead fan, or a fan of the jamband and music community, this show is for you. The team does 2 episodes per week, one focused on a weekly rewind, and one with an artist interview. Their family vibe and warmth and intelligence produces some really insightful and unique interviews.
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- Deadicated: Taping the Dead, 1965-1995. Relix has an interview with Mark Rodriguez, who put together a beautiful book and project that goes deep into the origins of taping, tape-trading, and has thousands of images and documents from the band’s archive.
- RIP Tom Verlaine. Best known as the frontman of Television, Verlaine was a staple of the New York scene for decades. If you never have, or even if you have, give Marquee Moon a listen.
- Get some Section 119 gear. I want to give a shout out to our friends at Section 119, who is now an officially licensed partner of Phish.
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- Music from boygenius + The National. We got 3 new songs from boygenius, and a new single from The National. All extremely worth listening to. Check those out wherever you listen to music.
- Tours aplenty—what will your concert going look like in 2023? We’ve had a lot of tours announced for this year. Will you be going to more or fewer concerts in 2023?
- Margo Price launches new cannabis line. Alongside of my favorite albums of 2023 thus far, her album Strays, she has launched a special collection of “Mom Grass.” You can order this online now. Right on.
- Mike and Oteil are solo on Comes A Time. Check that out.
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- California venue owners react to Senate hearings. Ineffable Music Group, which owns venues in Santa Cruz [The Catalyst, which may be familiar to Phish fans], Ventura, Berkeley, and several other cities, said that effective immediately they won’t take 20% merch fees from artists anymore.
- Ace turns 50. Bob Weir’s first solo album, the genesis for so many great songs, gets a deluxe edition reissue this year to celebrate this anniversary.
- King Gizzard unveils monster Red Rocks live release. This week we got an 86-track King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard live release from their 2022 Red Rocks run. They played 3 long shows, and wow, this is a great live release. Part of their interesting Bootlegger program.
- Goose Chicks Pod features GrooveSafe. One of our newest podcasts, Goose Chicks Pod, features an interview with Ashley Driscoll, founder of the amazing GrooveSafe.
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- More ticketing controversy. Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday about whether Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s merger in 2010 has stifled competition and hurt consumers.
- Bieber Sells Catalog to Hipgnosis. For $200 million, Hipgnosis Songs Capital has closed its deal to buy 100% of the artist’s publishing, as well as his artist royalties from his master recordings and neighboring rights.
- The Sphere is Coming. Per our friends at JamBase, the Las Vegas MSG Sphere will be open by Fall 2023. This place is going to be absolutely incredible. The largest LED screen in the world, 164,000 speakers, and “4D features including scent and wind.”
- 40 Years of Phish on the Helping Friendly Podcast. We are rolling on and through 1985 with our walk through all 40 years of Phish, with new episodes every Monday.
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Tuesday, 1/24/23
- Music Industry Layoffs Continue. Per Digital Music News—Alphabet / Google, Amazon, Audacity, BMI, CD Baby, Meta, Microsoft, Patreon, SoundCloud, SoundHound, Snap, Spotify, TikTok and Twitter.
- Everyone hates Ticketmaster. Is everyone wrong? An in-depth article with lots of interviews and perspectives on whether Ticketmaster is really to blame about all the increases in ticket prices and the horrible experiences fans have.
- RIP David Crosby. We encourage you to check out the podcast series we did with David, called Freak Flag Flying. As reported by many, he was working on a new album and tour, right up until the end.