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!Just when you thought the holiday season would be safe from goofy new legislation, the guv’mint wants to keep you from skipping [...]
Wilco’s frontman talks to Wired News about how leaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on P2P networks (after their label refused to release it) saved their career. Oh yeah, their new album? At number 8 on Billboard.
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Ed Felten’s analysis of the recent Penn P2P study attempts to find some common ground between labels who want to retain market value for music and consumers who want to support artists on a sliding scale. In all of the excellent scenarios Felten focuses on the "total welfare" of the community by assuring artists a [...]
Congrats to TCM Client Granian on a superb review in the New York Times!
Yes, that’s right. That New York Times.
For everyone who’s going to send me an e-mail asking how an independent artist got some column inches in the New York Times, listen up. You start with a great set of songs — Garen’s been [...]
What are you doing today that will someday get folks to wait in line for you?
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Audrey brings us today’s cautionary tale of another band that has to go through painful effort and expense to re-brand themselves at the hands of a long-lost trademark owner…
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Is this an unfortunate publicist’s typo, or are the MTV Europe Music Awards really being shown in North America on… MuchMusic?
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Tonight’s episode of Frontline is another must-see. Not because it cover the business of music per se, but because it posits that the more you bombard your customers with a message, the less they’ll respond. That’s certainly what we’ve observed in our Build Your Band’s Site workshops — when you plug away at telling folks [...]
The other day, over at IndieBiz.com, I spoke with artist Trevor Levine about avoiding mediocrity without alientating a mainstream audience. It turned out to be one of the most compelling conversations I’ve had in recent months, so I thought I’d share it with you.
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Mark Cuban, of broadcast.com, Dallas Mavericks, and The Benefactor, tears off an almost Albini-esque rant about using P2P to generate cash.
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