2008 was another bleak year for record labels, but their problems began years earlier. On today's show: A look at the secret deals, corporate backbiting and poor decision making that led to the decline of the record industry. Also: Tenor saxophonist Tim Ries joins us to talk about interpreting the Rolling Stones in the Jazz idiom and performs live.
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Tim RiesHow the Giants Fell
With his behind-the-scenes access to the most influential names in the recording industry, music journalist Steve Knopper was able to craft “Appetite For Self-Destruction: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry in the Digital Age," a sweeping history of the industry over the past three decades, from the birth ...
CD Picks of the Week
Three outstanding new releases, as picked by the Soundcheck staff. Read the full reviews here.
"DG Concerts: Shostakovich & Mosolov, In the Shadow of Stalin," Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) --picked by Brian Wise
Bill Alves, "Imbal-Imbalan: New Music for Gamelan" (Spectral Harmonies)--picked by ...
"DG Concerts: Shostakovich & Mosolov, In the Shadow of Stalin," Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) --picked by Brian Wise
Bill Alves, "Imbal-Imbalan: New Music for Gamelan" (Spectral Harmonies)--picked by ...
Jumpin' Jack Jazz
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and composer Tim Ries has created a career out of the creative fusion of classical and jazz idioms. Over the last decade, he has taken a dip into the world of rock and roll with a world tour with the Rolling Stones, an experience that provided inspiration ...
D.R.M: R.I.P
There has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the state of the music industry – much of it, I should say, coming from inside the music industry. But even casual observers have to worry – if only to wonder whether their favorite musicians will have to ...
CD Picks of the Week
'DG Concerts - Shostakovich & Mosolov: In the Shadow of Stalin,'
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon)
Shostakovich’s 1930 opera 'The Nose' is based on Gogol's short story of a civil servant whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. As the composer ...
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