This London Times profile of singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson deserves a little more than just a slot on this week’s “interesting links” list. A few slices of Michaelson’s life indicate the direction that savvy working musicians will need to take in order to make real money over the next decade. The piece lingers on the fact [...]

Natalie Gelman’s recapping some of her favorite Seth Godin books on her blog, and relating what she’s learned to her experience as a New York City street musician. One of the most important things Godin said in the book for me was: “You have to believe your own story.” If you aren’t sure that you’re [...]

Heather Nolte remarks that Twitter’s latest usage numbers show a decline in active users, from 23 million down to 20 million. Whether the novelty has worn off for some passive users of the service or whether the entire social media trend has hit a plateau remains to be seen. Still, as I wrote about yesterday, [...]

Yes, I’m still working on the draft of “Grow Your Band’s Audience,” version 4.0. (Side note: if you buy the PDF version now, you will get a free upgrade to 4.0 when it launches.) One of the things I find funny about the process is that folks have asked me for years why I didn’t [...]