Welcome to spinme.com, where we help working musicians make more money making music. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or our weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday, subscribers to the IMC Newsletter got a heads-up (and a deep discount) on our next Grow Your Band’s Audience 10-Week Strategy [...]
In all of last week’s commotion, I failed to notice that Best Buy finally unloaded Musicland. How long will the chain limp along on $18.98 list price disc sales?
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Kathy Brackley has posted an essential set of checklists at MusicDish that complements the exercises in Grow Your Band’s Audience.
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I love this business model. DJs cut licensing deals directly with independent musicians and labels, load up iPods with custom mixes, and rent the iPods to cafes and stores for a fraction of what it might cost for them to license something similar from Muzak. What I’d love to see is for the players involved [...]
Regular readers might recall my rant (posted on the old system) about not being able to find quality point-of-purchase displays in small quantities. Galaris feels my pain and is doing something about it.
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Apply soon for one of seven $3,000 grants sponsored by Heineken and administered by ASCAP.
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I’m going to be taking a little vacation in July - hooray! Although I’ll pre-schedule some tips and tools, I could use some help from someone who’d like to contribute a good post every so often. E-mail me if you’re interested.
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Welcome to a leaner, crisper Indie Music Club. After talking with a number of our readers over the past few weeks, I learned a few things. The layout of the site was a little to busy for most folks — way too much going on. Also, we had lots of bells and whistles that nobody [...]
…it will always work the other way around. Seriously, even if every musician on the planet had their music on iTunes or KaZaA, the only way an audience member would even think to download them would be if they heard about it first. So says this great panel at CMJ.
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I just saw Russian Ark, and seeing all those oil paintings reminded me of a great art class I took in grad school, where we discussed how art used to be customized to the whims of the patrons. It wasn’t until fairly recently that artists became independent enough to develop their own ideas. With the [...]
