Blog - If Society

The death of record stores? (Tommi)

- 05.11.2008

The biggest Finnish daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat issued a prophecy of doom for record stores today.

The article is based on a statement by a spokesman from one of the biggest digital distributors in Europe.

On a grand scale it's quite true. Record stores are staring down the barrell... click to read more

Ambition - and 10+ years on the indie scene (Tommi)

- 02.11.2008

All the people reading this blog probably read my post from a few months ago on the implications of the long tail theorem on small-to-medium sized indie labels. Well, that was my current stance on making music from a business viewpoint, here's something on the subject from a more personal... click to read more

EIYL in the studio (Tommi)

- 27.10.2008

There's no point in this post, so if you're reading this blog hoping for insights, opinions or anything resembling intelligence, please skip this entry.

We're at E-Studio in the basement of Kaapelitehdas in Helsinki, gettin' ready to record the new Echo Is Your Love long play.

Our producer... click to read more

Politics (Tommi)

- 25.10.2008

The municipal elections are here and I have no idea who to vote for.

I don't trust any of the parties and all the candidates seem equally lame.

I don't understand any of the key topics enough to have an opinion.

I thought the point of politics was to outsource the thinking process to... 1 comment click to read more

Music & Media (Tommi)

- 24.10.2008

I just spent a day at the annual Music & Media seminar in Tampere.

I've had a really strong hunch on a few things for a while now and today I got even more validation for all of them:

We're not really a part of the music industry today. They don't need us and we don't need them. Actually the...

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I'm a loverman (Tommi)

- 20.10.2008

I've spent quite a bit of time pondering the difference between amateurs and professionals lately, but from a bit different perspective than music, but most of it applies to this field as well, so here's a few thoughts.

Most of the key moments in musical history from my viewpoint have... 1 comment click to read more

...but seriously, Ilta Sanomat (Tommi)

- 08.10.2008

Yeah, I know I shouldn't try to read yellow press with a serious attitude and think of it as comic relief, but yet again, this shit is a bit too much to handle:

Loiri rikastuu 10 konsertin kiertueellaan 100 000 euroa

IS teki laskelman kiertuetuloista sen maltillisen odotuksen pohjalta, että...

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Goodbye, friend (Tommi)

- 24.09.2008

I know this ain't kosher blogging behaviour, but this thing is very important to me, so I'm just going to go ahead and post this here as well, even though this was originally written for the Viola website.

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Dear friends.

On Saturday, September 20th 2008, we lost one of the best... click to read more

An ode to Osku and Ike (Tommi)

- 24.08.2008

I wasn't always the enlightened sage of popular music I am today. I was once a teenage boy misled by peer pressure to listen only to mediocre metal and watered down classic rock and getting my musical guidance from magazines like Guitar World and Soundi. Luckily for me I had the opportunity to... 3 comments click to read more

Quantity or quality? (Tommi)

- 05.08.2008

Jeff Atwood wrote an interesting piece on quality vs. quantity in his Coding Horror -blog a few days ago. Although the post was about a piece of writing on making art applied to software engineering, I found it really thought-provoking in it's applicability to music.

In the text Atwood quotes... 4 comments click to read more

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