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!Brent from the Music Marketing Cheat Sheet is putting the wolf at the door and challenging himself to grow his own band’s [...]
A little something for your webmaster…
Even if you don’t care to read through the entire text of Steve Krug’s excellent book on website usability Don’t Make Me Think!, you should at the very least read this one free sample chapter which summarizes the three “facts of life” of how people use websites.
In the past five [...]
Too many independent musicians lock themselves up mentally, afraid that if they share ideas “too soon” that they’ll either get stolen or that there won’t be any more good ideas where that came from.
It’s a habit that all creative people share at some point in their careers. To break through to the next level, you’ve [...]
I love this stuff: Beatnik Turtle’s indie band survival guide:
We found, when we started out years ago, that there weren’t enough bands that shared what they’d learned. The information that we found useful was scattered in different magazines, books, and all over the Internet. After doing all of that research, and going through the inevitable [...]
If you think you have what it takes to become America’s next big superstar, I’m not about to suggest that you try out for American Idol. Instead, check out American Idol Underground, a website that provides an online community that caters to emerging artists and their new music. You can submit your music [...]
John Richards of KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, a bellwether of the indie music movement, shares his thoughts on how to get radio airplay. ‘Nuff said.
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Science confirms what we musicians know in our hearts, even if we don’t want to believe it: the social influence of peers affects your taste in music. Researchers at Columbia University observed that listeners who could see what music their fellow study participants were downloading more often chose to download it themselves.
“People are faced [...]
I remember the days of record players. Then there were cassette tapes, and then CDs. And now, it seems, everything has gone digital. Has everyone gone digital, too? When you download songs off of the Internet, do you tend to rent them for a month or buy them forever? The [...]
Public smoking bans are good for business:
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The Daily Show Takes On MySpace:
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