In general, this story about a favorite Irish pub in Boston is inspiring. For every club owner that moans about how hard it is to grow a following and stay in business, this should be mandatory reading. These guys lost their lease, and business boomed so much that they’ll be back in a bigger location [...]
UPDATE 4.9.07: Some experienced buskers brainstorm about ways Joshua could have upped his collections that morning — some really great ideas!
For anyone who’s ever made more money from subway busking than from a club gig, here’s a fascinating experiment from the Washington Post. To see if average working Americans would make time in their [...]
While our regular readers ask me that question all the time, another group of people is just as curious about the answer — Wall Street.
Clem Chambers from the investment website ADVFN offers a guest commentary in Forbes Magazine about his ideas for the real winners and losers in the entertainment industry shakeout. While he’s not [...]
Merlin Mann offers three really insightful guests on The Merlin Show:
The last week or so of The Merlin Show has featured three fun interviews with independent musicians — talking about Macs, handling email, and figuring out how to get paid. Stop by for visits with John Roderick, Chris Wetherell, and John Vanderslice
Definitely note that [...]
Nine Inch Nails Tell a Transmedia Story
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Animal Video Stuns McGraw and Hill on Tour
Another reason why stage visuals should always be a group decision.
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The Music industry: spinning into oblivion
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UPDATE - APRIL 27: Big, huge, fun American Idol liveblog + discussion happening on our new discussion boards.
The entry form has finally popped up on the American Idol site for their songwriting competition. [CUE FRED SCHNEIDER] Surrrprrrriiiiisssse! It’s gonna cost $10 to enter the contest.
Ordinarily, I think $10 is a totally reasonable entry fee for [...]
You might not know the name Dick Dale, but I guarantee you’ve heard his music if you’ve lived in the U.S.A. for more than, say, a week. And he’s got some compelling instructions for young musicians in this short video, like:
“Johnny Cash sold records right out of the trunk of his car…”
[Thanks, Derek, Scott, and [...]
By Ken Levine: American Idol this week
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Hawaii Business Magazine Profiles iTunes Artist
“The music business is costly. To make the master copy of a CD usually runs around $30000.”
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PoughkeepsieJournal.com - Film takes hard look at music business
Before the Music Dies screens in Woodstock this week.
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Ian MacKaye fights all-ages show shutdown in [...]
Bob just announced that the new edition of his stellar Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook is available at Amazon and the other usual places. You can also get an autographed copy directly from him.
Your homework is to get yourself a copy. (My homework is to get crackin’ on the Second Edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience.)
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IMPORTANT UPDATE — MARCH 20, 2008 — AMERICAN IDOL SONGWRITING CONTEST HAS LAUNCHED FOR 2008. CLICK THIS LINK FOR DETAILS. INFORMATION BELOW IS FROM THE 2007 CONTEST. Wow!We all thought this was drifting way beyond the back burner and behind the stove. However, it looks like the folks at 19 Entertainment are going to use their [...]
