Gil Kaufman

Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Gil Kaufman is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Billboard Magazine, MTV News, Wired, Rolling Stone, Fodor’s and the original web-only music magazine, Addicted to Noise.

His most memorable paycheck: “As a midwestern suburban kid who wished I’d grown up around the corner from CBGB in New York’s East Village in the 1970s, getting to write the liner notes — and interview the band — for a 2002 Rhino Records re-issue of 1983’s ‘Subterranean Dreams’ by the Ramones was a dream come true.”

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How musicians are getting paid in the pandemic

Physical album sales are just 3% of their peak in the year 2000, music streaming services pay peanuts, and the pandemic halted touring. But artists are embracing new ways of making money.

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