Thanks to all the folks who dropped notes or trackbacks about Slow Cooked Success — who knew that a quick post would have such a profound effect on so many people? What I love about it the most is that it’s spurring the conversation forward…
Michael Devers from Lone Star Music made one of those leaps, [...]
One of the musicians who took me up on a Banana Pancakes session this week wanted to know why he couldn’t expect to “get huge” in the next thirty days before his unemployment ran out. He got a little upset when I suggested he might have bigger things to worry about in the short [...]
From BoingBoing: With all the buzz about whether to lock up your MP3 downloads, one reader points out that dance labels have been thriving thanks to paid downloads of unlocked MP3’s.
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When I first started writing books about the music industry, I had a very small mailing list of a few dozen folks who helped me bat ideas around. It’s time for me to bounce some new ideas off of you, but the weblog’s not always the best way to do that — especially in those [...]
Lots of my clients and other webloggers have been going nuts about the Grammy that was awarded to a download-only release. That, in itself, is great news. What excites me even more about the winning project is that it was funded through direct patronage — audience members who believed in the project enough to fund [...]
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By most accounts, clubs in New York City are back to the same level of business they enjoyed before the city enacted its smoking ban. This shows me even more that when bans like this get introduced in other cities, nervous club owners use them as an easy out to shut down or move out [...]
One of our readers asked me today if we knew of any great shoes that look pretty/funky/fun on stage but are still comfortable for women to perform in… Being a rather fashion-challenged guy, I throw the topic out to you, dear reader, and implore you to share your fashion finds in the comments.
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More evidence of the pressure live venues are under… Tonic in NYC presents avant-garde and experimental work, not usually the most profitable business to be in. But they’re one of the few "curatorial" clubs I talk about in seminars, one of the few places where talent coordinators will shoehorn in new bands if their work [...]
I’ve been telling our clients and conference call listeners for some time now that the payola scandal fallout would actually make it harder to get attention for emerging artists at commercial radio — already an "eye of the needle" situation. Gerry Cagle is tracking some of the hard proof at MusicBiz, where he notes that [...]
