Stuart Dredge

The Price of Music Your essential weekly music biz explainer – with Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge.

The Price of Music – the podcast I co-host with Steve Lamacq – is back today after a short hiatus.

The relaunch episode sees us chatting about AI band The Velvet Sundown; the big numbers around the Oasis reunion; Deerhoof's Spotify protest and more.

Listen here: musically.lnk.to/TPOM

Made you some promo shots to follow suit :)

"One love, for the Mother's Pride (£1.19 a loaf, aisle 10...)"

I'm deep down this rabbit-hole with no return...

The point about whether they even own the books any more is fascinating too. If they don't, what *is* it even as a company?

What is punctuation anyway?

My girlfriend suggested Oasis tickets for her birthday this year. I lied and said I'd spent my day off trying to get some when I just sat watching movies all day. Why would I want to stand watching some guys standing watching me back, all of us just waiting for it to be over?

You're British AND you love trains? THIS SEEMS SUSPICIOUS :)

I know this is not the reaction you were looking for but I've just gone ARGH at the missing quote mark at the end *loads WordPress*

He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

God that's shitty, sorry to hear it.

@jodythompson.bsky.social TOTP 1978 rerun has brought up so many happy Uncle Bobs memories. Love is in the air!

a woman in a blue dress is standing next to a man in a white dress in a scene from a movie . ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing next to a man in a white dress in a scene from a movie .

Cruftsified and Ancient

I know this won't be news to you if you're working with her, but I read that article and she comes across as a thoroughly marvellous human being :)

15 months of dog ownership, and the only command I've managed to successfully teach her is that on a walk, if I sing the chorus to late-90s banger 'Turn Around' by Phats & Small, it's time to turn around and head home 🫠

The Tate Era all episodes in one place

🫠 www.deezer.com/en/show/5999...

Woah! The Beta Band have got back together?

That's strange! Usually it's only brand new things. It must be good (it is)

Also hello

It can't be just me who, every time they see this phrase in a password screen, has to sing "I'm the ONNNNNNNNEEEEEE who had your babies...."

#Dingdiggidiggidingdingdingdingdiggiding

Look who appeared on my Release Radar today :)

Swastika t-shirt sparks takedown of Kanye West’s Shopify store Putting swastikas on your merch will end badly. There, we’ve said it. And, honestly, you’d hope that it wouldn’t need to be said. Outside the furthest, nastiest reaches of neo-Nazi music it’s something understood by artists. Alas, not Kanye West. To recap quickly: Friday saw a flurry of tweets from West’s account on X including ‘I love Hitler’, ‘I’m a Nazi’ and a series of anti-semitic comments.

Swastika t-shirt sparks takedown of Kanye West’s Shopify store

Putting swastikas on your merch will end badly. There, we’ve said it. And, honestly, you’d hope that it wouldn’t need to be said. Outside the furthest, nastiest reaches of neo-Nazi music it’s something understood by artists. Alas, not…

I’ll pass this on when he floats back down :)

IT'S NOT FUNNY it's a serious issue etc but... can't stop laughing imagining how this disruption at my kids' school would have played out.

It's absolutely someone's phone emitting a deafening 'BOLLOCKS!' in the middle of maths isn't it...

Sometimes I worry that when I’m using an emoji on my phone, I’m also making that face IRL 😬

The true innovators never receive their props :)

Can we have Vikings again? I want a hat with horns*

*I know, I know, they didn’t BUT THEY SHOULD’VE

Marvelling at the range of involuntary noises “one” finds “oneself” emitting in middle age:

*Standing up - dying manatee winched from mineshaft
*Sitting down - air escaping from punctured pouffe
*Bending over - concussed bison wrestled into sack
*Sneezing - final roar of once-proud warrior race

This is wonderful!

My exciting first purchase of 2025 is a grater with its own pot. Hooted out loud at its desire to send me to a website to get instructions on how to use it…