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Rising Above The Noise Floor #5: TikTok & The Modern Music Industry

The age of digital piracy took a heavy toll on the music industry in the early 2000s. Illegal file-sharing left a great crater where CD sales used to tower. In 1999 that tower stood over $14 billion dollars high, yet in the two decade aftermath, music sales plummeted to half of that amount. These were […]

Rising Above The Noise Floor #3: How the MTV Generation Changed The World

I can still recall my first encounter with MTV. It was a video by Duran Duran called Hungry Like A Wolf. My sister and I had pleaded with our mother to get cable, just so that we could consume MTV culture twenty-four-seven. On that day in June of 1983 we huddled around the tv to […]