Saturday, March 5, 2011

Music Industry at a Low High


Cake just topped the Billboard Top 200 with 44,000 copies. That is the lowest-selling #1 album in 20 years, however, so the news for the band is more than a little bittersweet. In a recent interview with Melissa Block on NPR’s All Things Considered, lead singer John McCrea admitted he was pretty pessimistic about the future of the music industry as a profession. He is apparently looking forward to one day putting touring behind him and trying his hand at subsistence farming.

Perhaps the music industry is doomed. Or perhaps it just needs a reboot. [READ MORE HERE]

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