Why I HATE music as a business...

Many of you reading this blog are from and around the area of Detroit. Congrats. You are apart of what is considered to outsiders a scum of a city; where the amount of roaches and rats are as plentiful as the robberies and arsons (I hyperbolize of course). I'm willing to guess that many of you are also music lovers/junkies as well, (two for two right?). Well if you only concur to the latter of the two statements again, congrats, because Detroit seems to be one of the only "major" cities that doesn't get attention from independent and mid-level artists anymore. Now don't get me wrong, when I say mid-level artists I don't mean that in terms of quality. I intend to convey the artist that has less of a following/ isn't on MTV BET VH1 or Fuse (not that being on any of these channels should hold any type of standard). The reason is music has become a business. Fair enough. Why shouldn't people make money off of their personal works and creations? The trouble is I never get to see them live. Yeah I know I'm selfish, because it seems artists like Toro y Moi, Lil B, Flying Lotus (he was here twice, once at the majestic, once at DEMF). There are no market for those artists here. 

Thats why they don't play. I say that's a bit of bullshit. There are ways to work around that without having to necessarily give up all money.  Find an artist of the same general musical genre and open for them. You get a cut and the exposure is increased in that area. If an artist is worried about losing a bit of money, they're in the wrong game. I believe that any and every artist should be looking for the most fans, to expose their art to as many people as possible. Long term money comes in as that happens. Thats how social networking has been employed.
 The new generation of musical outlet is primarily focused on viral spreads, do it yourself projects and appreciation all via the internet. Mix-tape's are being distributed through sites such as Mediafire and Zshare and god knows if you have to buy an album digitally nowadays (I-tunes, Zune, Amazon, etc.), most people are going to look for the torrent first.


Fuck this, in the end I just disprove my point because sites like soundcloud can tell you where you're getting the most listeners and views. SO if you find that the most views and downloads are coming from L.A., you go to L.A. to play a show to get the most money.

But still, I feel like every fan counts. They make the artist as much as an artist does. Shouldn't those fans get consideration?

Nah money comes first.....

Fuck America.

Not C.O.L.D.