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!Scott Andrew and Bill Wilson are riffing on some tools that we could use in the independent music community to get more [...]
Are you asking yourself whether you can still fit your dreams into a busy life? One that includes a spouse, some kids, and maybe even a day job that you enjoy — even if it’s not what you expected you’d be doing? A recent letter to Salon’s advice columnist asks a question that many of [...]
We’ve all watched the sad death spiral of Britain’s Sanctuary Records over the past few years, but I didn’t think it would end up like this:
Universal Music Group purchased the company for about forty U.S. cents per share.
On one hand, as it evolved through the late 1990’s, Sanctuary was a great model for the kind [...]
While I was away, David and Bob both covered the announcement from the Federal Trade Commission, confirming what we already knew. Burnlounge has barely sold any actual songs, and pretty much all of the money it ever generated was from licensing fees for folks to open up their own branded stores.
I actually gave them [...]
Here’s one place where exposure — to the right people — can actually help you. Our friend David Hooper over at Music Business Radio is looking for some new jingles and stingers to punch up the production on the new series of the show. You could have fun with this, and get yourself on the [...]
It’s a $42 million price tag for Pump Audio, the little independent music rights clearing house that could. I remember that, when they first launched, Pump Audio looked dangerously like one of the song sharks we often write about here. But they reached out to the independent music community and did a great job building [...]
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Still catching up from vacation… if you’re in my inbox somewhere, hang tight! In the meantime, an essential classic from The Onion: I Like All Types of Music.
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I’m just back from vacation, which is why posting’s been light. While I catch up, check out this excellent advice from Bobby Borg…
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