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Proposed Chicago Law Would Make It Harder to Host Your Own Concerts

May 10th, 2008 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Featured Article and Hosting Concerts

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!It always strikes me as odd how Chicago doesn’t always embrace its heritage as one of this nation’s most important cultural cities. [...]



Music Business Education Reaching High Schools

May 8th, 2008 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Featured Article, Inspiration, Making Money and Selling CDs

After hearing so much great response from our profile of Drexel’s campus-based music business program, I’m noticing more stories about schools that model their student-run record labels and booking agencies along the same principles. This week, the Los Angeles Times profiles a school that’s offering the same kind of real world experience, only at a [...]



Why Nobody Is Making a Living Off 1,000 True Fans

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Featured Article and Growing Your Audience

I would love to be a fly on the wall when Scott wakes up and sees that Kevin Kelly has linked to him.
OMFGLMAOBBQ!!1!!11eleventy.
Seriously, though, it does seem that the research Kevin’s doing for his new book is touching on an area that readers of this site have been struggling with for a while. Since 1999, [...]