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Curating your own life soundtrack:
How does your audience really use your music in their daily lives?Keywords: advice, audience, songwriting

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Honestly, I think one line in this article sums it up pretty well:
Seneca College is the first Canadian post-secondary institution to take part in a first-of-its-kind initiative in Canada to highlight independent music and get it heard by the public in a revolutionary way.
Now, I’m not saying that you should completely uproot yourself [...]

Ever hear that iPods and other mp3 players are dangerous ? Well, they are. Or, they *can be* if you don’t know how to use them appropriately. In the news these days: the kinds of headphones that often come with these sound players require placement deeper in the ear than the old headphones [...]

There’s this band I know. I met them at a conference, and they seemed cool. I gave them my card. Big mistake.
First, they added me to their mailing list without asking. This was a faux pas, but I let it slide, because hey, I’m a musician too.
Then, the deluge. Email after email after email, sometimes [...]

Think playing for “a good cause� means no one signs at the dotted line? Think again. Going the benefit route could be one of the best techniques you got. Check out this piece from the October 2005 Music Edition of the Festival Network Online Newsletter. Especially if you haven’t necessarily [...]

Looks like Starbucks is moving closer to offering digital music downloads through their Hear Music program, allowing customers to load MP3s directly onto portable players, in addition to CD sales and on-the-spot CD burning:
“A lot of our customers are asking for device fill-up, and going forward we’ll do that,” Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, [...]

Well, well, well! It’s great to be back (it’s like my very own Saturday Night Live intro!). I’m excited to be back on board with the spinme.com site, and I hope you all can work with me so that Scott, Joe, and I can continue to bring in good, effective techniques, resources, and ideas to [...]

To promote the soundtrack to Walk the Line, Sony is paying street musicians $80/day to play sets of Johnny Cash songs.
My head asplode.
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Abrasive-yet-insightful music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz knocked one of the park a few days back with his post, Breaking An Act. A must-read, even if half of it is just plain common sense.
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