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!I was working in radio, and part of a team that was running what was, at the time, one of the ten [...]
If you’re a practitioner of Joe’s zone strategy for booking gigs, here’s a tip that’s served me well: incorporate your zones into your mailing list for more accurate mailings.
It occurred to me that it doesn’t always make sense to email everyone in the state of Washington that I’m playing a show in Seattle. I could [...]
I honestly hadn’t thought about this until now… If the record industry, which has used payola and co-op dollars for decades to squeeze small artists out of radio playlists and off of record store shelves, could actually pay cable and phone companies to keep web surfers off of MySpace, iTunes, and CDBaby, what would happen [...]
Lefsetz has some choice language for record execs that don’t understand why there are still ten illegal downloads of a hit song for each paid download. And he wonders why nobody in the mainstream media’s writing/thinking about why this whole DRM issue is so absurd.
That’s probably because most folks working in “mainstream” journalism share the [...]
I’m one of the guests on David Hooper’s Music Business Radio this week, and we talked a lot about street teams and growing your own audience. (We talked a lot about Music Hates You, in fact — the guys have been experiencing tremendous success by really getting obsessed about locating and playing for their fans.)
You [...]
Here’s one final reminder about tomorrow’s conference call!
Music Business Contracts
Everyone thinks it’s smart (if not essential) to consult an attorney before signing any music business contracts. If you’re still struggling to pay your bills, spending money on billable hours can seem like a luxury. We’ll share five huge things you should watch for, [...]
Hem has been honing their sound — a blend of etherial vocals and Americana — for close to seven years now. DreamWorks signed them in 2003, but couldn’t make their records click at radio. Luckily, they’ve moved on to Rounder, and they’re selling all three of their albums at their site.
“Half Acre,” a song from [...]
Back in about 1996, I decided to shift my career away from music programming and toward production. That’s because I simply didn’t have the memory capacity of my colleagues, who can remember everything about every act they’ve ever heard. (A colleague of mine, when hiring new staff, would use the question — “Tell me about [...]
Yes, back when guys like Cousin Brucie and Dick Clark could open a mic and cause a Sam Goody stampede, radio (and TV) could dictate what records flew off store shelves. Not today. Focus groups and sales forecasts determine what goes on an FM playlist. So if you’re still trying to exert yourself to get [...]
Here’s an awesome interview with an experienced band business manager about the kind of expenses he sees each week from his clients (and other musicians).
Smashed Guitar? Investment in your image.
Nephew wants to open a bar? Stay away, especially if you invite the Happy Mondays to the opening.
Plus, a list of fifty totally extravagant rock [...]
