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!Over the last few years, I’ve been talking to clients and members about how to get a core group of your fans [...]
Deborah Neville offers excellent insight into the various roles of your support team, especially the distinction between your manager (who helps shape your overall career strategy) and your business manager (who tells you when you can and can’t buy that pink tour bus). It’s always a huge issue with my clients when I discover that [...]
In Grow Your Band’s Audience and Music Management for the Rest of Us, I write about how the best kind of record deal you can land is a “P&D.” That stands for pressing and distribution, and it means you, the artist, are basically hiring a major label to manufacture and distribute your disc — the [...]
I was in a meeting at the day job today when one of the marketing folks mentioned an awesome, mind-exploding idea that fits perfectly with setting music career goals: write a press release, then work backwards.
The idea is to sit down and write the ideal make-believe press release for your project. It’s a powerful, imaginative [...]
Though it might have seemed that Interpol was already on a major label, it was really a solid critical and fan presence that elevated them to today’s deal. Selling nearly a million records on Matador Records had something to do with it, too. Andy Slater’s having a field day. (And it’s nice to see that [...]
I’ve just posted a new video to the spinme.com members area! It’s a broad overview of the ways I recommend that you use retail to grow your audience. Members can log in and access it here.
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I finally had a chance to give you a personal tour of the new site and the membership area. If you’re interested in joining our music business mentoring program, check out this video for the technical details.
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Nashville Star’s on USA again this January — I was a huge fans of the first two seasons, though I didn’t catch much of the past two years. Still, I always enjoy the emphasis the show puts on live performance and songwriting. Auditioners can try out in any of these cities throughout the fall…
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By Brian Farley
In the UK for the last 18 years at least, a whole generation has been virtually starved of live musicians for a variety of reasons. The advent of computers being a standard household utility with their accompanying music production and downloadable music format devices, together with widespread video and latterly DVD technology has [...]
Random, non music-biz fun for a Sunday…
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