Peu de nouvelle musique qui me bouleverse ces jours-ci. Mais, compensant largement l’ordre des choses, l’album magnifique de Chvrches (The Bones of What You Believe) est sorti.

Deux lectures intéressantes sur comment être artiste aujourd’hui, et demain :

Alina Simone : The End of Quiet Music.

What I missed most about having a label wasn’t the monetary investment, but the right to be quiet, the insulation provided from incessant self-promotion. I was a singer, not a saleswoman. Not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur.

Sasha Frere-Jones, Damon Krukowski, Dave Allen, Jace Clayton : Cash on the Pinhead (How Will Musicians Survive on the Spotify Era).

Krukowski: Musicians don’t need to reach everyone; we just need to reach our audience. And we don’t need to make everyone pay a little, but we do need those for whom our work means something significant to pay enough to enable us to provide it.

PS: fuck yeah Lauren Mayberry!