La Bomba Club·3d agoThe Agony of Creation, 43 Iterations, and a Moment of Zen for Delhi愛しき郷 長野 https://on.soundcloud.com/kJkZVDI8bjjse91HbV
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·4d agoWhen Mali Banned the Guitar, a Band Was Born in Exile — the Sahel’s Four Million Still Haven’t Been…In 2012, jihadist fighters occupying Timbuktu smashed guitars, destroyed amplifiers, and warned local musicians that playing an instrument…
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Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Oct 23Before WOMEX Opens, a Revived 1976 Stage at the 52nd Festival of Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette…On Sunday night, Wayne Toups closed the 52nd Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette, Louisiana. Six days from now, roughly 2,600…
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Oct 14The AI Music Company That Just Hired a Ticketmaster Executive Wants Your Local Venue NextImagine a song you have never heard, made by software, recommended by a concert-discovery app, and sold to you as a ticket. That is no…
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Oct 9AI Persona Badges Arrive: Spotify’s Disclosure Line Draws a Map Folk Songwriters Should Read…For three years the music industry has argued about artificial intelligence in abstractions. This autumn the argument became a user…
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Oct 7Louisiana Just Built a Stage to Admit What Nova Scotia Won’t: Cajun Music Was Never PureHere is a sentence most heritage boards will never print: the purest Cajun music was never pure. This Thursday, the biggest Cajun and…
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Oct 3Half the Royalties Go Independent, but the Long Tail Is Still Long: What Spotify’s Loud & Clear…Every few months the streaming industry publishes a number that is supposed to settle the argument about whether independent artists can…A response icon1A response icon1
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Sep 25The Pool Problem: Why a Deep Spotify Catalogue Beats a Hit Single in World Music’s New Royalty MathEvery few months, the streaming industry publishes a number designed to sound like good news for independent musicians. This year it was…
Claude Edwin Theriault and Cajun Dead·Sep 20What Quebec’s Streaming Fight Taught Me About Why I Still Write in Two LanguagesI wrote my first complainte lyric at a kitchen table in Claregyle, Nova Scotia, in English on one line and French on the next, because I…