Congrats to Mark Weber — his Christian Music E-Zine, Zeebo turns two years old this week. Every week, Mark covers new releases and industry events with a literary flair. Here’s to many more years!

Joe’s entering RANT MODE… Nothing riles me up more than a poorly written press release. It annoyed me when I was a business reporter, it annoyed me when I used to do radio news, and it annoys me even more now that I work with emerging artists. You cannot afford to marginalize yourself with a [...]

We’ve been covering the RAVE Act in all its flavors in our newsletters for a long time. It finally cleared Congress a few weeks back when it was bundled with the Amber Alert legislation. (Reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where a Senator tacks on a bill to fund the “pre-verted arts.”) Plans [...]

Here’s an innovative and clever way to grow your high school audience — become a guest speaker/performer!

For our readers in the U.S., I hope you had an enjoyable holiday weekend – we actually shut down our office for TWO WHOLE DAYS, and celebrated the unofficial start of summer at, of all things, a Herman’s Hermits show. Yes, Peter Noone is alive, well, and touring. Say what you will, but we’ve got [...]

June 5th in Los Angeles, there’s a Club DIY event about music publishing. If you live there, you should go. That is all.

The folks at SongCritic are trying something interesting. Artists can pay $5 to post a song, and have it reviewed by a few hundred of their regular readers. The $5 is more than fair to cover their operating overhead (streaming is still pretty pricey for the average person), and even if you’re not getting feedback [...]

The folks at NXNE have just inked a deal with Johnny Rotten to provide the keynote speech at their June conference. Understanding that, yes, folks are concerned about SARS and Mad Cow Disease, Toronto is still one of the nicest, cleanest cities I’ve ever visited, and NXNE is a truly worthy conference. If you go [...]