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!Bob Baker has a crazy-good idea to attract members of your perfect audience by highlighting the kinds of things they would shop [...]
I’ve told you before that it’s easy to get inspiration from your day job. I don’t know if I meant that in the literal way that mortgage advisor Billy Shakes raps about mutual funds, though.
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RIP Chris Whitley:
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iRocker: Turn Your iPod Into a Guitar Tuner / Metronome / Practice Tool:
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RIAA Bears Down on Webcasting Rules:
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Lefsetz Letter : Kate Bush:
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Indie Music Success Stories:
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PROOF! MySpace = Ego Stroke:
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Scottish band Looper is asking exactly this question.
A snippet of their song wound up in a commercial, earning them enough money to stop worrying about selling records. They’re focusing on composing more music for film and television to pay the bills, and releasing their crowd faves for free as a byproduct of the creative process.
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If you’re a working musician, you must see this movie. Yes, like “That Thing You Do,” it hearkens back to the era when you could track down someone like Sam Phillips on the street and actually get an audition.
On the other hand, this movie shows you how even Johnny Cash had to work day jobs [...]
I’ve been lamenting to my clients that we’re always in need of fresh, new holiday songs. So Rhonda and Pale Beneath the Blue have whipped up the Snow Emergency EP. “Christmas Break” is definitely fresh and different — and it would be my favorite new song this season even if she wasn’t a client. [...]
Scott Andrew relates the story of an independent band that spent an entire week featured on the front of MySpace.com — and managed to sell zero CDs.
This is not uncommon, and not unxpected. Here’s why:
It takes a typical American radio listener EIGHTY or even NINETY listens to your song before they form an opinion [...]
Cafepress is finally rolling out one-off black t-shirts.
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Apparently, folks are now using Skype to telecommute to band practice.
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NPD figured out that, when you equate 12 singles to one physical CD, iTunes now sells more music than Borders or Tower. See, we told you that record stores were becoming lousy places to try to sell records!
iTMS Outsells Borders and Tower
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