If Society -Blog

As usual, Seth Godin is SPOT ON in his post Who will save us?!

Who will save book publishing?

What will save the newspapers?

What means 'save'?

If by save you mean, "what will keep things just as they are?" then the answer is nothing will. It's over.

This applies 110% to the music... click to read more

(creative commons image from Flickr by Saucy Salad

As most of you must have already heard, we're giving up the whole retail side of our operations.

I have no idea how long this thing lasted, but like so many others, we also started from trading out our own releases and running a tiny... 11 comments click to read more

The music market came down about 25% from last year.

Every time I talk to people about how records - in a large scale - are a thing of the past, they always hop into defense mode. "But I still buy records like I used to". Every single one.

So I'll be the first to admit: I really really... 18 comments click to read more

A Turku-based marketing agency has started a blog on exposing 101 clichés in corporate marketing (in Finnish, sorry foreigners). The idea is brilliant as I'm sure I'm not the only one ready to flip out in homicidal rage whenever I see that bland tripe on the web or elsewhere. Don't even get me... click to read more

The sales director of the Finnish branch of Audi resigned today due to a ruckus that was caused by him expressing some pretty last century chauvinistic attitudes towards women. Under his professional title, no less.

This has caused some people to cry out that there's no freedom of speech in... click to read more

I've played music as a rather serious hobby for well past 10 years now.
I've done my share of different kinds of sessions that have resulted in records a very limited people actually enjoy, but during all these years I've never participated in a session quite like this.

First of all: we had... 1 comment click to read more

This just in: one of Helsinki's coolest purveyors of hiphop-derived music, Lifesaver, calls it quits.

I've never been a part of their clientele, but they've done an awesome job at serving their niché of choice in the past 10 years. Hats off to the whole Lifesaver-gang and we'll be pouring a... click to read more

When you form a new band, even if you're from America - the cradle of all meaningful culture mankind has ever produced thus empowered to reign supreme over lesser countries, like Europe - please oh please oh please check if the name you're going for is taken. It takes like 5 minutes to do a bit... 5 comments click to read more

I used to think Manowar was brilliant. Not so much because I liked the music, but more because it was a perfect litmus test for testing how good a given person's grasp on reality is, judging by the amount of seriousness he or she had in her relationship with the band.

I had always trusted... click to read more

I noticed a really weird pattern of consumer behaviour in myself yesterday. I was on the very verge of subscribing to Spotify premium, but cut the process once I was presented with these two options:

1 month = 9,99 euros
1 year = 99 euros

Instead of getting the feeling of cheap vs.... 3 comments click to read more