What follows is a collection of some of my favorite music industry-related news articles to date. Most touch on areas of personal interest, so while it may seem like a random  assortment of information at first glance, this is a pretty accurate overview of where my hobbies and interests lie.

 

The record industry is dying. The concert industry is booming. The club scene is... nervous.

Nashville Scene | SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 | "Tomorrow's version of superstardom, in other words, means topping out at the Ryman instead of Bridgestone Arena. It means becoming part of a massive musical middle class of club-level headliners making a working-stiff living — a patchwork of decent "hard-ticket" headlining guarantees, better paydays for corporate cash-grabs, and lucrative appearances at destination festivals like Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza. It means acknowledging that the arena-act age is over, with one notable exception — Nashville's bread and butter, country music."

 

Women Feel Like Frauds at Work Because They're So Good at Their Jobs.

Business Insider | NOVEMBER 5, 2013 | "The evidence of working women underselling themselves is everywhere. Studies show that female employees apologize more—not because they’re addicted to saying sorry, but because they have a lower threshold for thinking they’ve committed an offense. They give themselves duller performance reviews, even when their supervisors rate them more highly than their male peers. A 2012 survey of thousands of political candidates revealed that “men were 60% more likely [than women] to say they were ‘very qualified’ to run for office,” according to Forbes. The depressingly ironic part of all this niggling self-doubt is that most women don’t even apply for positions unless they’re certain they meet 100 percent of the prerequisites. (Men, meanwhile, tend to send in their resumes if they possess a mere 60 percent of the job qualifications.)"