Music Industry notes

Since December 2015 I have been a member on the infamous music streaming app Spotify.  I joined as my ambition for a career in the music industry was heightening rapidly, I was happy to start paying/signing up to subscriptions that were necessary for an aspiring music industry worker. For the first half a year that I was paying for Spotify, I was always unsure about keeping my subscription.  This is because although I very much enjoyed the experience of listening to new and old music offline for the first time, that was the only thing I would gain for £10.00 pm whilst all my other friends were getting the same thing illegally downloaded for free.   Of course it was brilliant to have so many albums available to me without the adds, but I fel t as such a famous music app, Spotify could of given a bit more features-wise. As another year went by and it was now the end of 2016, I noticed that a lot of my friends were now subscribed to Spotify or Apple mus...

Now that it is coming to the end of the year 2017, I am aware of which bands and artists have grown into my favourites over the year.  There has been a mixture of genres I have become a lot more aware of due to the positive influence of many different characters around me encouraging me to listen to new, more underground styles of music.  All of the people in my life have varied music tastes meaning that each year I have more and more influences.   I delved deeper into genres this year such as emo (and emo rap), rock, indie, blues, alternative R&/B/Hip Hop and even Tropical House just from being around fans of the genres and catching on to their interest. The first band I became a new fan of this year/end of last year is Wolf Alice ... Wolf Alice are a four-piece Australian alternative rock band who bring a completely new sound to the music scene.  Lead singer Ellie Rowsell has become a huge musical inspiration to me personally be...