With paltry streaming royalties and a cost-of-touring crisis, it’s harder than ever to make money as a musician. Claudia Cockerell on the household names who are taking up side hustles, and what it says about the state of the music industry
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I was under the impression that while streaming was garbage for money that touring was the cash cow. Apparently it’s a loss for these artists.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJSp-yRMrsY

    why you do this - a self documentary from car bomb on why people still make music/tour despite monetary hardship.

    There are tech death musicians out there that give some classical composers a run for their money that still have day jobs, mostly in computer programming of some kind.

    (side note : turns out that technical death metal appeals to the same kind of people that enjoy working on applied mathematics. who could have guessed)