18 months ago, we wrote one of our most popular REDEF Originals to date, “Less Money, Mo' Music & Lots of Problems: A Look at the Music Biz”. Since then, the music business – thanks to music streaming services such as SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC and PANDORA – has finally put an end to 15 years of revenue decline. But as we outlined, this reversion does little to change the infinitesimal royalties received by artists and creatives, nor the fact that the streaming services themselves are racking up big losses. Having trouble seeing how this can change without big reductions to the cuts taken by labels. Without question labels are less necessary (or important) in releasing music – see BEYONCE, FRANK OCEAN, DRAKE, RADIOHEAD. Not sure of the right revenue mix, but it seems wrong that artists are starving, streaming services are losing money while restoring growth to the music biz and labels are doing less than ever but still taking home pre-NAPSTER fees. The value chain of the music business is totally f***ed up. That said, if you're into music, technology, business and culture then MusicREDEF is for you... No content licensing deal should be done without a product person in the room... BRIAN GRAZER AND RON HOWARD have a very cool new show: MARS. To fight the likelihood of the extinction of the human race by some catastrophic event, colonizing Mars is our best answer. Debuting November 14th, the show uses a clever mix of sci-fi drama with documentary-style segments featuring ELON MUSK and NASA brainiacs. If you dig science, space, sci-fi and future narratives, go all-in on this one. Now streaming the first episode for free on the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL and ITUNES... UBER signs up DELTA TAU CHI... BERNIE has a point... How often do you choose yourself over work? And why?... New rule: If you don't like immigrants you're not allowed to eat any foreign cuisines... That's some motherf****in' photo... Happy Birthday to PREM AKKARAJU, JENNIFER DEGUZMAN and JASON KRYSTAL.