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!The rumors are true. The so-called big drop in file sharing use really was just due to holiday vacations, according to Jupiter [...]
Over your career, it’s likely that your long term wealth will come from music publishing and royalties. Folks in Nashville have a chance to register for a seminar that will take you behind the scenes of “music clearance” — the process that gets your songs onto the screen and money into your pocket!
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Thanks to Suzanne at Indie-Music.com for catching this great article in the Denver Post which neatly summarizes the new breed of “indie music” — artists who have been dropped (or liberated themselves) from major labels, only to bite them in the ass on the charts with major releases.
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Tech journalist Robert X. Cringely posits a clever model for a legal music sharing business. It’s a surprisingly workable idea, which just requires a whole lot of lawyers and a few million dollars. On the down side, there’s no room in this model for compensation for artists, beyond whatever share of the list price of [...]
When I first wrote Grow Your Band’s Audience as a series of magazine articles in 1998, one of the things I discovered was that this animosity between bookers and bands was mostly show. Posturing. Folks acting like that was the way they were supposed to act. Once you make the distinction between what a booker [...]
News coming to us from different directions that Tonos is shutting down this week. As pedigrees go, that site had one of the best, but they couldn’t make the thing make money.
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Our friends at HitBox have a list of seven tips for e-zine publishers…
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Mini-rant time. I am on the road quite a lot. And even when I am not on the road, I have a tendency to drop in at Kinko’s (or such)and use borrowed terminals. If I happen to surf across a site I like, I usually subscribe to that site’s newsletter. It’s a nice, passive way [...]
One of the first examples of the legislation-formerly-known-as-RAVE. This is a pretty extreme example, but as local authorities become more aware of the powers of this law, musicians are going to have to take a leading role in educating audiences about what “a little fun” might mean for their favorite venues.
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An insightful commentary from Slate, which points out that the new Billboard digital download chart could be toppled with only 1,500 paid downloads. Who’s gonna mobilize their fan base to make that happen?
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