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!Still catching up from vacation… if you’re in my inbox somewhere, hang tight! In the meantime, an essential classic from The Onion: [...]
Nekesa Mumbi Moody chronicles a common complaint, especially among high-ranking women in the music business:
If you don’t look better than you sound, the recording industry doesn’t want you.
And it’s true. Armchair quarterbacks are already noting that Melinda Doolittle and LaKisha Jones both got bumped from American Idol because they don’t “look” like a superstar, whatever [...]
As subscribers to our newsletter learned earlier this afternoon, I’ve heard plenty of comments from newer readers about challenges regarding the price and/or overseas shipping of our music career success books.
Therefore, I’m trying another experiment. I’ve just loaded a bundle of all four of our books in e-book form into our online store. And, to [...]
I got a great idea from one of our readers who sent in a new masthead… since you’re all so creative and since we recently revived our old logo, I thought I’d let you take a spin at designing the spinme.com masthead.
We finally have restored the rotation system, so you’ll see different mastheads as [...]
With the song critique section of our bulletin boards growing, I pulled TryTunes out of mothballs to provide an easy way for songwriters to get their songs online without opening a MySpace or a YouTube account. We have received plenty of submissions, and we welcome more. However, please keep in mind that this is what [...]
Because there are only so many hours in the day, we don’t have time to review all the unsolicited submissions we receive here at TCM World Headquarters. However, despite the admonishment on our contact page, they arrive anyway.
Our new bulletin boards give me the chance to corral that energy instead of forcing me to give [...]
We’ve had some of the most vibrant discussion in our site’s history over the past few days, which has been really, really rewarding to read. A few of our newer site visitors have asked why comments on our posts go into “moderation,” or why some comments don’t appear on the site.
To clarify:
The first few times [...]
Brian Austin Whitney writes about the challenges he’s facing putting together the next Just Plain Folks Roadtrip. A lot of our long-time readers are also JPF members (as am I), and the Roadtrip has always offered a great opportunity to network with other musicians all over the country. Unfortunately, Brian can’t seem to get very [...]
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 [...]
A2IM has published the “Rules of Engagement” document that evolved from the settlement agreement with the country’s four biggest radio chains. In some ways, it feels like a throwback to twenty years ago.
In the pre-web days, to bend the ear of a music director, you had to call the station during “office hours,” a few [...]
