Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘Wired’

Another Great Wired Piece With David Byrne On The Music Business

Along the same lines as the Thom Yorke interview, David Byrne lays out the “Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars.”

Great Wired Article On Music With David Byrne And Thom Yorke

Wired has put together an excellent multi-media article about Radiohead’s recent experiment and the music business in general.

Bob Dylan Thinks Technology Sucks

The iconic rocker says the music industry has no right to bitch about piracy when its modern recording technology only screws up good music anyway.
Dylan’s pretty tough on the current state of recording. He’s got good points too. We’ve lost almost all dynamic range in modern recordings. But there’s still good stuff out there so [...]

Music Makes Your Brain Happy

A neuroscientist explains why women want rock stars to father their children, and how melodies can work like Prozac.
This looks like a good book: This Is Your Brain On Music. I always get nervous, though, when scientists try to reduce everything to “The Brain.” There’s obviously a lot more going on in the universe than [...]

Rockers Work a Web-Savvy Crowd

Rockers Work a Web-Savvy Crowd, by Robert La Franco from Wired magazine.
Japanese alt-metal group Dir en grey’s first U.S. tour finds the band playing packed halls and moving mountains of merch, all thanks to the promo power of anime conventions, video games and MySpace.
If you aren’t promoting your music on MySpace yet, you need to [...]