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Notes on Financialization: May-July 2026
Welcome back! It’s been a few months since the last edition of Notes on Financialization, and we’re now well into the summer slowdown in major financial transactions in music. But don’t fret (see what I did there?🎸), plenty happened from M...
✘ The silence before the silence
selvita wrote the last song first, and she wrote it before she knew what it was for. She was working through an online tutorial, teaching herself to coax a lush, watery drone out of a single pure sine wave in Ableton, reaching for no sample...
✘ The reject arc: How taste gets built out of distaste
Taste, this word that everybody keeps banging on about but nobody seems to properly understand. When Coldplay first arrived lots of people loved them, but I was non-plussed. Their music was on in the background when I visited a friend and I...
✘ Culture is mispriced - where is the opportunity?
Before the pandemic the cultural and creative sector generated 4.4 percent of the European Union’s GDP, a bigger economy than telecommunications and one that employs more than eight times as many people. Yet, it feels like money doesn’t beh...
✘ The most crowded word in music
Is “Community” the hardest-working word in music right now? Every label has one or wants one. Every artist is told to build one. Every platform sells the promise of one. The word gets stretched to cover a mailing list, a Discord server, an...
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Chuck Fishman is a music industry consultant at TONAL Agency and Sounds Like Now and Label Manager of Soul Clap Records. A leader of FSQ, he works with independent artists and labels, plus the estates of Michael Jackson, Charlie Parker, and Sheila E.
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