Sometimes music defies genres. Sometimes it’s spot on true to it’s name. Either way as consumers we like to describe things, to categorise them in order to relate to them easier. Pitchfork have always made me laugh with their creative approach to describing artists. I went through the last few weeks of news to illustrate [...]
It just got older. Sure there’s a million artists flogging some shithouse hip hop right now, but just like any genre that is popular pretty soon it’s flooded with crap. Already we’re seeing a wave of rock bands playing synthesizers. So what? The original shit is still just as good as it ever was. I [...]
This article is partly in response to an interesting post by Tim Dunlop of Crikey music blog Johnny’s in the Basement, and partly because when I get started talking about music I get carried away… Tim’s article highlights a kind of interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about the difficulty of coming up with a [...]
Case 1: The note “A” There are a limited number of notes from which to make music. At what point is a note, or a progression of notes, copyrightable? I’m pretty sure someone somewhere has the copyright to a song that uses the note A (maybe Norm Lurie?). Could they then sue every artist to [...]
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