…comes preloaded with all 320 Ramones songs. Almost a full hour of music!
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I’ve been having a great thread of conversations with a few of my clients lately about how nobody likes to be on the unhappy side of a "cleared room." You know what I’m talking about… you’re on a bill at a showcase club and the second the band before you hits their final note, WHOOMPH [...]

Your songs are like your own little retirement
policy — write one that’s good and get it out in the world, and you
can get a nice little check (or three) every quarter. Find out the
mechanics of "mailbox money" and how to increase your chances and your
checks during tomorrow’s call for IndieBiz.com Members at 4pm ET.
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79% of web users surveyed respond negatively or "very negatively" to websites that play sound without asking. (No, the fact that 21% did not fall into those categories is no excuse.) Forcing your audience to hear your music without asking them to click something first is a sure-fire way to keep them from returning to [...]

Seth Godin spent a few days in the room with record industry executives who wanted to rediscover what it is they’re actually selling. The Smoking Gun Lefsetz is there…
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 Curt Rosengren has some ideas about getting your own Mastermind Group into high gear in the new year…
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Joe answers questions about getting the rights to your master recordings, launching a sponsorship campaign, deciphering a curious marketing agreement, and short-circuiting Amazon.com to get customer data…

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I spent the last few days wondering where to begin any kind of post about Dimebag. Clients of ours, who happen to live a few doors down from us here in Athens, were openly weeping on their porch. If you’re not into metal, think about how you were moved when you heard about John Lennon. [...]

David is really serious about this, folks. He puts a lot of energy into telling new members about the service, but we both agreed that we can help folks better by putting as much energy as possible into helping the group that’s in there by the end of the year get to a really, really [...]

Remember how I wrote in Grow Your Band’s Audience that you sometimes have to uproot yourself and go where your audience is? That’s what Scissor Sisters did, and you see the results of that effort if you happened to have TiVoed their Saturday Night Live performance over the weekend. Here’s a diary of the Scissor [...]