Eyal Amir – ‘Bad News Jitterbug’ [Review]
In the music business, as in life, an overwhelming amount of lip service is paid to the notions of individuality, inventiveness, and innovation. But, of course, talk is not action. Record labels, and a great many people out there in the real world, don’t really want to stand out from the crowd; rather, they want to be second to market, and let someone else take that first step into the unknown. That first step takes some serious balls – not least because of the potentially paralysing fear that inevitably confronts explorers of all kinds. Read more…