Announcing my fifth music business book: “Audience Supported.”

I’m so excited to tell you about the launch of my fifth music business book, “Audience Supported.” I started writing about the music business when I was still working as a public radio producer. My then-girlfriend, now my wife, took me out to a neighborhood bar that was packed to the gills with an audience [...]

All new editions of spinme.com music business books in 2011.

Thanks to Lori’s help and to a much easier schedule since moving into Center City Philadelphia, I’ve got the road map for all new updates to my series of music business books in 2011: Grow Your Band’s Audience (“Tenth Anniversary Edition” / v4.0): February 1, 2011 Music Management for the Rest of Us (v2.0): March [...]

Site Update: You may notice the plane tilting slightly toward the cliffs…

For folks who have been asking… YES! There is still a 2010 edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience on the horizon. Not only have I been taking extra time to update the case studies, I’ve been reworking the original manuscript into a format that’s going to work well on the Kindle and the iPad. And [...]

Announcing the Music Management Boot Camp

Over the past few months, I’ve seen a huge surge of interest in my third book, Music Management for the Rest of Us. It could be that a bunch of folks are thinking about pursuing music industry careers, in the wake of crazy layoffs all over the United States. But it’s also likely that more [...]

Technical Heads-Up: New Newsletter Address

I am trying out some new software, so if you’re subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you will get some mail from me with the return address: newsletters [at] joetaylorjr.com Thanks for helping me keep my inbox organized!

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Upcoming posts for 2008…

While it’s been pretty quiet here of late, I’ve been cooking up some new topic streams that I think you’ll find interesting in the new year. Some of the topics I’m kicking around include: more information about finding/training music managers what to look for and what to avoid in music business contracts how to find [...]

Yes, I know it’s very quiet here this month…

Extracurricular: Top Ten Careers

As our newsletter subscribers have already heard, I’m spending a little time away from spinme.com to work on some new book projects and to write some pieces that have nothing to do with the music business. One of those pieces was featured on the front page at Yahoo! today, which is both flattering and awesome. [...]