Anil Prasad is a music journalist and music industry commentator.
Career
Prasad is the founder and editor of ''
Innerviews,'' the Internet's first online music magazine, initially launched in 1994. Prasad’s writing has appeared in ''Guitar Player, Bass Player, Frets, JazzTimes, Relix, All About Jazz,'' and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). In addition, ''Innerviews'' content is used as part of the UCLA School of Music's course curriculum. He has conducted interviews with more than 450 musicians since 1992.
He has contributed liner notes, essays, video interviews, and release consulting to projects for record labels including Abstract Logix, Blue Note, Favored Nations, Grass-Tops, Lazy Bones Recordings, Magna Carta, Panegyric, and 7d Media, as well as artists such as Pierre Bensusan,
The Crimson ProjeKCt,
Pete Levin,
Tony Levin
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Pat Mastelotto
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John McLaughlin John or Jon McLaughlin may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John McLaughlin (musician) (born 1942), English jazz fusion guitarist, member of Mahavishnu Orchestra
* Jon McLaughlin (musician) (born 1982), American singer-songwriter
* John McLaug ...
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Marco Minnemann
Marco Minnemann (born 24 December 1970) is a German drummer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Career
Marco Minnemann has released over a dozen solo albums as drummer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, and performed on over 100 studio alb ...
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Jordan Rudess
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, Julie Slick, Sonar,
Tanya Tagaq
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* Tanya (Judaism),an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.
* Tanya (name), a given name and list of people with the name
* Tanya or Lara Saint Paul (born 1946)
* List of Mortal Kombat characters#T ...
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David Torn
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Background
Torn has contributed to recordings by artists as diverse ...
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Vân Ánh Võ, Alan White,
Steven Wilson
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Prasad is the author of the book ''Innerviews: Music Without Borders.'' The eBook edition achieved a #1 placement on iTunes’ Arts & Entertainment and Music charts. The book features interviews with 24 musicians, including
Björk
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Stanley Clarke
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Ani DiFranco
Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco (; born September 23, 1970) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums.
DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influe ...
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Béla Fleck
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Bill Laswell
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, John McLaughlin,
Public Enemy
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David Sylvian
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, and
Tangerine Dream
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Prasad’s work has been excerpted in more than 30 music-related books, includin
''In a Silent Way: A Portrait of Joe Zawinul''by Brian Glasser
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Sid Smith''On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno''by David Sheppard, an
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John Szwed
John F. Szwed (born 1936) is the John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, African American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, where he ...
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Prasad is an outspoken critic of many music industry practices, most notably
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
streaming
Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content it ...
vendor policies. He is the author of a presentation titled "The Economic Reality of Streaming for Musicians" that examines the history of streaming, the artist royalty rates involved, and their negative impact on artists' livelihoods.
Prasad has also criticized recording contracts, in particular
copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ...
and master ownership clauses, and is an advocate of artists retaining the entirety of copyright in their own works.
He was voted one of the six most influential music journalists of all time by ''G.A.S. Media.''
External links
''Innerviews'' Website''Innerviews'' on Twitter''Innerviews'' on Facebook''Fifteen Questions'' interview with Anil PrasadRadio New Zealand interview with Anil PrasadBuffalo News interview with Anil Prasad''All About Jazz'' interview with Anil Prasad''BeyondChron'' overview of Anil Prasad's streaming industry criticismsCreative Commons interview with Anil Prasad.''Tokafi'' profile of ''Innerviews''''G.A.S. Media'' most influential music journalist listThe Economic Reality of Streaming for Musicians presentation
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American music critics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people