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Here are the posts that have appeared in the New Music Lives™ Group on Facebook this week 04/05— through 04/11...
04/05
04/06
• Garth Brooks Got Rejected After His First Audition for a Record Company from tasteofcountry— Garth Brooks is the most commercially successful artist in country music history and a man who changed the Nashville sound as much as any who came before or after him. The singer made country cool on a national level with shows that were as alive and rowdy as rock concerts.
04/07
• You don’t need talent to make music anymore. Just these prompts from travisnicholson on medium— AI music generators can be incredibly powerful, but also incredibly frustrating. If you’ve ever typed random adjectives into Suno and gotten back something bland or off-target, you’re not alone.
04/08
• In Partnership with Daniel Parris & Stat Significant
At the TrueFans AMP™, we’re big believers in helping Music Artists not only make great music— but smart music career moves. That’s why we’re proud to feature the work of Daniel Parris, the sharp and super-savvy mind behind the Substack publication Stat Significant.
Daniel is one of the rare thinkers who brings data to life— turning numbers, charts, and trends into powerful insight. His writing uncovers what’s really happening in music and culture today— statistically, historically, and with uncanny relevance for Music Artists who want to understand where the industry’s been, where it’s going, and how to make their mark make it.
Whether he's tracking the real impact of genre shifts, analyzing what decade changed music the most, or cutting through hype to uncover hidden truths about streaming, fans, or tech, Daniel delivers the kind of clarity creative people can actually use.
If you’re a Singer, Songwriter, Band Member, or behind-the-scenes Music Maker, Daniel Parris is a name you’ll want to know— and Stat Significant is a read you’ll want to subscribe to.
Check it out and subscribe here: Stat Significant
... and here's the more...
04/08
• the True Fans AMP™ Magazine 130
In This Issue... 17 pages (about 25ish minutes to read)
• Recommends — Two Essential Music Docs: Immediate Family & The Wrecking Crew
• Your BIZ — What Ariel Hyatt Gets Right About Music Marketing (and Why It Matters Now)
• Greatest Music Artists of All Time— Dolores Keane: A Voice That Carried Ireland
• in partnership with Joel Gouveia & The Artist Economy
• TrueFans Editorial— Connect Or Die by John Fogg
• P.S. from PS— Payola Never Died… It Just Learned to Code
04/09
• “That thing’s got great breaks”: Watch Anderson .Paak riding through the suburbs of LA… playing a drum kit on wheels from musicradar— Just another day in Los Angeles: the rapper, producer, singer-songwriter and drummer Anderson .Paak was spotted earlier this week riding through the city's suburbs on a drumkit on wheels.
04/10
• Is Hip-Hop in Decline? A Statistical Analysis from statsignificant— Nothing is sacred in popular music. What feels ubiquitous today can quickly become obsolete. Consider four defining genres of 20th-century pop culture: rock, hip-hop, pop, and soul. Each one of these formats has ridden its own wave of adoption and irrelevance.
04/11
• In defense of hip-hop from ted .com— following up from yesterday "Is HipHop In Decline?" Hip-hop often gets blamed for its controversial lyrics. What if there was a way to actually measure its impact on people's lives? Analyzing 40 years' worth of radio station data and lyrics from rappers like Tupac, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar, economist Roland Fryer puts one of culture's most notorious debates on trial.
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