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!I’ve been talking a lot about tastemakers lately, and now here’s a REQUIRED READING article about the evolution of that concept into [...]
Folks, here is a textbook way to do this. Build up your database, then send a simple pre-order announcement with a little “somethin’ extra” to make the register pop. I can’t wait to see how this works…
Natalie Merchant - The House Carpenter’s Daughter - Pre-Order Announcement
Natalie Merchant - The House Carpenter’s Daughter
In her first independent [...]
Seriously, if the RIAA would put this much energy into helping its members recruit stellar A&R staffs and invest in real artist development, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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Derek from CDBaby has just launched digital distribution services, acting as a broker to iTunes and Rhapsody. The service fee ($40 + a 9% commission) is more than fair, given the opportunity cost of having to get on to these services yourself. Just don’t hold your breath waiting for the money to come rolling in [...]
The Emerging Musicians Market - A Music Industry Opportunity
By Larry Mistrot, MusicDish.com
For independent and home-based recording artists the future has never been so uncertain and exciting. However, recently I read an article where the writer expressed his experience of posting his works in numerous online forums only to discover an underwhelming lack of listenership. He [...]
INDIE NEWS BEAT
Week of July 18, 2003
* Mourning The Queen Of Salsa
* Hero, Keeping The Rock Opera Alive!
* Winner Of Boycott-RIAA.com’s Madonna WTF Song Contest
* Critical Acclaim Reassess Bob Dylan As A Gospel Songwriter
* Indie-Music.com Introduces New Products
* Download New Prince CD Before It’s Available In Stores
* Kiss Launches Pirate Radio Soundclash
* Canadian Music Coalition [...]
This just in from our friend David Hooper:
At 5pm Eastern, on Saturday the 19th, I’ll be spending some time with Bob Baker and asking him YOUR questions about street promotion, getting more fans to your show, selling more CDs, and other hot marketing topics.
This call has received more response than any other call we have [...]
2nd Annual Ear To Da Streets Music Producers Conference
September 17 - 19, 2003
Conference Highlights Include:
The GRAMMY Producers’ Panel (Sponsored by the New York Chapter)
September 18, 2003 - 1:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center at CUNY (City University of New York)
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street - New York City
For conference details, click on www.grammy.com/newyork.html
SPECIAL DISCOUNT for Recording [...]
Discovered this great write-up of Maria McKee’s new project. I remember recording her for World Cafe when her last album came out, and how her handlers at the label had NO idea what they were gonna do to make the project connect with a huge audience. Her new label (the one she started) is a [...]
All I need is the hot asian guy to get the “I”.
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