The Future of Music Hangs In the Balance.
"Before the Music Dies" is a documentary Narrated by Forest Whitaker that lays out a comprehensive and cautionary story about the deteriorating state of the music business.
The film contains interviews with music heavyweights such as Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, and Branford Marsalis. The web site has tons of information including videos, trailers, screening information and ways you can get involved.
Of course a film such as this is expected to have a great soundtrack , and it doesn’t fail to deliver. It contains a ton of great music including tracks that have been previously unreleased.
This movie is a MUST SEE for anyone who is a musician and anyone who cares about the decline of the quality of music. Buy the DVD 
“the most important film a music fan will ever see” (XM Radio)
“a balanced overview of the state of the rock scene of America” (The Wall Street Journal)
“passion to the eternal debate about the industry” (The New York Times)
“A great film… completely mind-blowing” (PureMusic.com)
13 Comments Received
August 7th, 2008 @8:45 pm
Corporations in general have been a negative effect on everything they touch.
They are built for greed and own no empathy….!!!
August 7th, 2008 @9:22 pm
The recording industry is already practically dead, far beyond saving. Nobody pays for music any more. That is a simple fact – it must be adapted to. Protesting reality will achieve nothing.
Good, I say! Art and commerce should remain seperate as far as is possible. The rapid improvement and availability of home recording equipment means that record labels are no longer a necessity.
Artists have always made negligble profits from records anyway – 99% goes to the label. Playing live is how most musicians make a living, and always has been. Only the top selling 5% make anything at all from recording.
Those who record music now can distribute it free through the internet, for the love of music. The playing field for distribution and popularity could be levelled.
“The Death of Music?” Please, spare us the melodrama. Creativity and originality can once again be allowed to flourish in a musical world liberated from the stifling “hitmaking” restrictions imposed by commercial interests.
Or maybe that’s just a load of naive, utopian nonsense. What do you think?
August 7th, 2008 @10:17 pm
The music industry is indeed broken and corrupt, and needs to die- in order to be reborn in an artist-supportive and better way. Thankfully we have a legend like Prince who single-handedly took on the music industry, getting his songs stricken from radio playlists as revenge- yet still wins the highest awards time and time again.
So long as we have Prince and others like him fighting for the music industry- it will become a better entity. And so long as Prince is around, music can never die.
August 7th, 2008 @10:48 pm
Why the hell are corporate musicians such as Badu, Clapton, and Matthews the ones speaking out against the state of the music industry? They are the state of the industry. There is an entire independent music culture that gets hardly any recognition in the media, and the fact that people still rely on the medias opinion is what is disgusting. F*ck Prince, f*ck Dave Matthews, and f*ck Erykah Badu. If they want to support the music industry, tell them to stop signing with major labels.
August 8th, 2008 @3:43 am
even though it’s been out for a while, I still want to say: it’s about time someone made a movie like this.
August 11th, 2008 @4:53 pm
is it streaming on netflix or something like that?
August 12th, 2008 @10:10 am
Trailer looks great. Congratulations. Hope to see it.
Kevin
http://www.carboyfilms.com
August 15th, 2008 @1:18 pm
While the web continues to mass music sources, we will strive to show them to you.
August 23rd, 2008 @6:10 pm
This looks a film that is now on my must see list. Thanks for sharing.
February 13th, 2009 @10:57 am
I saw your trailer its nice…i love music…i hope that will see later..nice trailer dude
April 10th, 2009 @6:33 am
Hey, this movie is looking like really good value. It’s about time the ‘Record’ industry got all shaken up
Kudos man!
Anthony.
June 30th, 2010 @4:21 am
Nice trailer!!
August 28th, 2010 @10:10 am
They are the state of the industry. There is an entire independent music culture that gets hardly any recognition in the media, and the fact that people still rely on the medias opinion is what is disgusting.
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