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AOL Is Selling Access To Your Inbox:
If you have a lot of AOL addresses on your mailing list, stop expecting high response [...]
Because we occasionally post leads about music industry internships, we now get a lot of folks showing up on the site looking for information on internships in Chicago, internships in New York, and even internships in London.
Super!! You know, you can join our mentoring program, too — ask me anything at all about your music [...]
One of our members has asked for advice on purchasing in-ear monitors. It’s such a subjective issue, that I wanted to throw the question to all of our readers. What in-ear monitors are you using? Like them? Would you buy them again when it’s time to replace them?
Specifically, anybody use Westone in-ear monitors? Our member [...]
Help musicians help themselves
$10 can help. $5 can help. Any contribution can help. The folks at GiveMeaning.com are trying to raise $4,000 to fund one month of counseling for 40 musicians and artists. They recognize that depressed musicians often cannot pay for the help they need and end up with nowhere to [...]
Tomorrow is the first day of February, and the first day of the 3rd annual February Album Writing Month (FAWM). What is it?
Sometimes we need a kick in the pants to “show up and get busy.” [FAWM] is an annual kick in the pants. This website forges a collaborative online community where musicians hold each [...]
It’s not often that I see a blog post that draws public responses from the brass at hot indie labels like Merge and Secretly Canadian. Patrick Monaghan of Carrot Top Distribution was dismayed to discover CDs from Merge and SC artists available at Best Buy at a deep discount. Concerned that he was witnessing a [...]
If you wait by the phone for the day that someone calls you and tells you that with a $5,000+ deposit, they’ll make you famous and distribute your music on radio stations worldwide, do your research before signing over the money. Courtland Tyler, CEO of the Indie label Jetspeed Records, has been targeted in [...]
Nettwerk Music Group Takes on the RIAA:
Keywords: RIAA, business, music
The Beginning Of The End:
More on the war between managers and labels, from Lefsetz.Keywords: riaa
Bob Baker’s Artist Empowerment Radio: What’s New?:
Keywords: advice, success
Nettwerk Pays Legal Fees for RIAA-sued Teen:
Litigation is NOT artist development.Keywords: riaa
Acrylic Nail Salons Hate Female Guitar Players:
Keywords: funny
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There’s a popular phrase that’s popped up in marketing circles: “Napsterize knowledge.” What the heck does that mean? Simple: if you know something useful or interesting, share it and watch it spread, and build your reputation in the process. How does that apply to the aspiring musician? Here’s a prime example from my own backyard:
I [...]
There’s no way to compete with people who are downloading music illegally, so why not team up with the system so the songs that people download could be yours? Indie distributor Jeff Price, who started TuneCore, uses digital distribution to “[level] the playing field between major label and independent content.� Maybe [...]
