Category Archives: Music Business

Pop culture and counter-culture: Mutually antagonistic symbiosis

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 30 June, 2010

There is a symbiosis between popular culture and counter-culture. Both camps deride, and seem to feel threatened, by the other but they need each-other and form a dynamic system. That dynamism is vital. Cultural evolution is important whether in the mainstream or not, though perhaps for different reasons, and both camps stimulate evolution in the other. The genesis […]

Also posted in Music | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Attribution Matters

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 13 August, 2009

The imaginary band album cover game has come back up on Facebook, perhaps it never really went away. It’s a chance operation game where you, Find a bandname via the Wikipedia random article function. The article title is the bandname. Find an album title via The Quotations Page random quotations page. The last three to five words of the […]

Also posted in Intellectual Property Rights | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Ideas are like piles, sooner or later every a**ehole gets them

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 29 July, 2009

Ideas are just a starting point. The real trick is taking an idea and making it happen as well as possible. Derek Sivers defines ideas as a multiplier and I think that’s a useful way to look at it. He even gives some definition to the values with a so-so idea worth half as much as a good idea and that […]

Posted in Music Business | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

  • Follow me on Twitter

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales
This work by rubken.net is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales.