For those of you who keep up in the Friendster/Facebook/LiveJournal communities (and for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about), MySpace is a site that anyone can use, fans and musicians alike. Although MySpace wasn’t necessarily designed to cater to a particular type of audience – like college students [...]
Help musicians help themselves
$10 can help. $5 can help. Any contribution can help. The folks at GiveMeaning.com are trying to raise $4,000 to fund one month of counseling for 40 musicians and artists. They recognize that depressed musicians often cannot pay for the help they need and end up with nowhere to [...]
If you wait by the phone for the day that someone calls you and tells you that with a $5,000+ deposit, they’ll make you famous and distribute your music on radio stations worldwide, do your research before signing over the money. Courtland Tyler, CEO of the Indie label Jetspeed Records, has been targeted in [...]
There’s no way to compete with people who are downloading music illegally, so why not team up with the system so the songs that people download could be yours? Indie distributor Jeff Price, who started TuneCore, uses digital distribution to “[level] the playing field between major label and independent content.� Maybe [...]
Honestly, I think one line in this article sums it up pretty well:
Seneca College is the first Canadian post-secondary institution to take part in a first-of-its-kind initiative in Canada to highlight independent music and get it heard by the public in a revolutionary way.
Now, I’m not saying that you should completely uproot yourself [...]
Ever hear that iPods and other mp3 players are dangerous ? Well, they are. Or, they *can be* if you don’t know how to use them appropriately. In the news these days: the kinds of headphones that often come with these sound players require placement deeper in the ear than the old headphones [...]
Think playing for “a good cause� means no one signs at the dotted line? Think again. Going the benefit route could be one of the best techniques you got. Check out this piece from the October 2005 Music Edition of the Festival Network Online Newsletter. Especially if you haven’t necessarily [...]
Well, well, well! It’s great to be back (it’s like my very own Saturday Night Live intro!). I’m excited to be back on board with the spinme.com site, and I hope you all can work with me so that Scott, Joe, and I can continue to bring in good, effective techniques, resources, and ideas to [...]
