Many  will be going, who, what to the subject of an article on David & David that has been written for Crawdaddy (here).  However, you may be more interested if I was to say that one of the David’s (David Baewald) did a lot of work with Sheryl Crow’s debut album and was a member of the Tuesday Night Music Club.

Apart from David & David I’d highly recommend David Baewald’s solo work – particularly Triage.

The spoof blog – The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs  has a rather scarily accurate picture of the where the record industry is today.  It would very funny if it wasn’t for the fact that in the process of messing around as Universal are they’re likely to trash the livelihoods of some of the more niche artists, and because of their ‘loan sharking’ business model it will be the artists that will pick up the tab for it as well in lost sales.

It is interesting that Apple don’t seem to have tried to deal with artists directly yet, for example Paul McCartney who signed to Starbucks earlier in the year, and licensed the physical media sales back to the ‘box shifters’. Is it only a matter of time before Apple take the last step and setup a record label, like Starbucks and other media delivery operations such as Yahoo.

 Crawdaddy have got another good article on their site looking how in some ways the music industry has come full circle since the days of punk. But in other ways – so far away such as the rapidly fragmenting music scene and the technological impact upon music tribalism.

See the full article here – Crawdaddy! – Feature Story – Jesse Malin Comes Full Circle.