Joe Taylor Jr. advises musicians that want to book more gigs...
Could your next album qualify for a Grammy? If you’re in the Philadelphia region, my home chapter of NARAS is sponsoring a free “Grammy Awards 101″ session for performers, producers, and music managers to learn everything about submitting your recordings for Grammy consideration. NARAS VP Bill Freimuth will be in town to walk you through [...]
In Grow Your Band’s Audience, I wrote about the subtle differences between the US and the UK markets for independent musicians. In a nutshell: US audiences crave familiarity. It’s hard to break in to the music business, but you can do very well once you gain momentum. UK audiences love new sounds and new acts. [...]
It’s tough enough to be a record executive these days. Your budget’s shrinking, your staff keep leaving to join tech startups, and you keep having to figure out which one of your interns is the one who’s leaking your biggest acts rough mixes to BitTorrent. At least you always had SXSW to look forward to, [...]
It’s always interesting to see music business posts on places like TechCrunch, since tech writers approach so many things with a community-oriented, “Web 2.0″ perspective. The issue with Music Nation isn’t that it’s necessarily a ripoff, or that anyone there is being disingenuous. Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch expects to see “cringing and backlash” from the [...]
