COOKING WITH COMMENTS, Musea issue #208, is online!
This is the story of how Evie turns an idea into a popular online video series! Do you love food ? This short story is a fun adventure!
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ROCK AND ROLL DOESN’T ROCK NO MORE
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
It’s turned middle age and become a bore.
It’s everything it used to oppose.
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
Rock and roll is corporate and dull.
It’s phony music that’s lost its soul.
It’s paint-by-number and rotten to the core.
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
Rock and roll has got to go.
Base, drums, and guitars are so so-so.
Enough of the clones of clones of clones.
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
Rock and roll has got to go.
Its taken 60 years but now it’s so.
It’s lost the beat and doesn’t roll.
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
It’s a has-been and It’s your father’s olds.
It’s spirit is gone and the choir all knows
Rock and roll doesn’t rock no more.
c Tom Hendricks, 2010
but free to reprint in full.
(Just one person’s opinion)
Letter to Music Journalists:
The music press should be about journalism not promotion.
When that returns, journalists will ask these tough questions of the music industry:
1 Should 3 CEOs control the entire music industry like they do now?
2 For twenty years sales have been half of what they were in 1999, why
3 Why does music never change? Never new stars or net trends?
4 Do you think auto tune is fake music to hide people without talent?
5 One percent of musicians make 70% of all the money, should they also make 70% of the charitable contributions?
6 Do you approve of NPR revenue sharing deals?
3 Golden Ages in the Arts
From 1990 to 2020 there was a golden age of technology but no golden age of content in the arts. The mainstream mega corporations invented new tech, but couldn’t find content to fill them!
Through the last 30 years there has been a consolidation of companies connected to the arts and media into fewer and fewer hands. This consolidation has ruined almost all the arts from music, writing, and art, to film, theater, and dance.
But there are these 3 exceptions. They all have something in common. They all developed outside the control of the giant media art conglomerates. That means that in every case thousands competed, not 5 or so mega corporations like in the mainstream generic arts.
These three still remain unappreciated and underreported by the mainstream media.
Here are 3 that stand out for me.
1. Zines. The late 80s and 90s were the last golden age of literature before the net.
2. Online bloggers, and original youtube channels, are the new radio and TV.
3. The Korean wave of both K-Pop and K-Dramas developed innovative music and TV / films.
Tom Hendricks
Musea since 1992.
What we could do for all musicians.These Ideas are covered in issues of my zine Musea.
Pennies for Play for all those who make creative content.
Fair no ad review site for a processing fee.
Radio station online, starting with a weekly blog of a panel talking about new releases.
Media source that covers arts news
Newsgroup to discuss all of this.
Continued protests against Big Three Labels that control the entire music industry and have ruined it
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