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This seems like a bad idea for concert promotion

I won’t give specific examples today, but I see many concert promoters offering 50% off tickets to their email audience (or sometimes, brazenly, on social media as well) quite close to the show...

James Vincent McMorrow enters the chat

Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow followed his fellow James James Blake's well-trafficked post in late September with one of his own a few days later. He wrote another post this...

Doing the 4 New Feeling Fandom issue roundtable...

New Feeling is a cooperatively-run Canadian indie music website. Rhythm Changes' longtime subscribers know that I've watched the outlet for a while, though I've never been directly involved. In an...

1,000 free weekly email members

Rhythm Changes hit the milestone of 1,000 free weekly email members today. It took almost 1,000 days from the first free weekly on Feb. 22, 2022, at which point I...

The Rogue taking a bath

Here's an endearingly healthy attitude toward a show with lower-than-expected attendance, courtesy of the Rogue Folk Club in Kitsilano and its director Steve Edge: The Rogue took a bit of...

The James Blake post about mailing lists and reach

James Blake made headlines again yesterday for this post, which I've transcribed for you in its entirety and to which I'll add my own thoughts inline below. Blake's message originally...