As of today, We All Make Music is going on what a publicist might call “an indefinite hiatus.”
I’m not going to get into the whys and the wherefores here. Instead, I want to focus on how amazing it was to run this site for a year and a half.
I learned a lot, I had some great experiences, I got to poke some fun at people, and most importantly, I got the chance to advise musicians trying to navigate their industry’s uncertain waters.
The economic underpinnings of music as a profession – licensing and royalty rates on streams, the attitudes that ISPs have toward anti-piracy enforcement, the public’s attitudes about purchasing (versus accessing) recordings, to name just a few – are going to change. They should change. How and why that will happen remain fascinating topics of debate.
At a more granular level, the types of tools and tactics artists use to get ahead continue to evolve, as do the prospects for a career in music. I don’t know where any of those things will go, but I do know that music will always endure. People will always need it, they will always love it, and in some ways its future will show the way forward for art in general in the 21st century. I hope it goes to a good direction.
Thanks to everybody who contributed, everyone who commented, everyone who read and spread and Liked and Tweeted. It meant so much to me that people read this site, and even more that there were so many people out there who felt passionate about ushering the music industry into the 21st century.
See you around,
Max
