David Byrne has taken music streaming services to task in a newspaper essay. Writing in the U.K.'s The Guardian, the former Talking Heads frontman adds his voice to the list of artists unhappy with the "miniscule" amounts firms such as Spotify pay musicians whose material they stream.

While he says he understands streaming's appeal to consumers, he points out that even the duo Daft Punk, who had one of this summer's monster smashes with "Get Lucky," will only make about $13,000 each from streaming, and "that won't pay their bills if it's their principle source of income." He asks what happens to the bands who don't have massive international summer hits?

Byrne offers no solutions to the questions he raises, but calls the current model "unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work" and says that while it won't affect him as much, it will choke off the efforts of young artists to build a career. He concludes that "without new artists coming up, our future as a musical culture looks grim."

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