At the risk of coming off a little peevish today…
I have been BOM. BAR. DED. with companies wanting me to plug their “we make ringtones for unsigned artists” services. And I have turned down every single one.
Why?
Nobody cares about your band’s ringtone.
As I blog this morning from a cafe, I have heard at least [...]
I’ve written before about the phenomenon of bands relying solely on a MySpace or a Soundclick website to make information accessible to their fans. Today, there’s more news to discourage you from relying on free hosting sites.
Specifically, if you’re hosting your band’s weblog at BlogSpot, expect it to disappear from search engines, and perhaps even [...]
Right now, the latest iteration of GarageBand.com is a great way to connect with other musicians, but very few members of your perfect audience use it. That’s because so few American audience members actively seek out new music on their own — they use filters like weblogs and friends to winnow down the flood of [...]
The Digital Music Doctor unveils his latest Pro Audio Software Shootout, and the $599 version of Cubase comes out on top. If you’re inclined to whine about the $599 price tag, remember that it was only about ten years ago that the same functionality would cost you easily $15,000 in hardware and software.
And you had [...]
Uh, no.
They simply had the misfortune for their servers to be located at a web host that was affected by the power outages in Los Angeles yesterday.
If my inbox is any indication, it got a lot of folks thinking about what would happen if MySpace suddenly disappeared. If you’re only using “free” sites like MySpace [...]
Everyone who counts “Tom” as a friend might start seeing some other common groupings when MySpace starts their own record label imprint later this year. Makes sense: MySpace is turning into a one-stop shop for A&R and promotion, though talent buyers still remain skeptical that “MySpace Bands” can get bums on seats at shows.
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Chris at the Long Tail wonders why we don’t have a definitive music industry equivalent of the IMDB or Wikipedia. Folks in the comments posit that the big data players (i.e., Gracenote) might have too much to lose.
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spinme.com member J’Ae from the band Lokata sent me over one of their webisodes. It’s a fun video clip that looks behind the scenes at their recording process and other stuff they spend their time doing. (Are those pie plates you guys are hurling at each other?) An excellent example of pulling together some audience [...]
At upcoming speaking engagements, I reserve the right to attach this post with a staple gun to the forehead of anyone who asks me why they should pay a few bucks a month to host their band’s site when there are so many free resources out there…
Because if it’s free, they’re either making money from [...]
To folks who were asking me what could possibly happen to MySpace… um… FOX could always buy it?
Fox Buys Intermix: Some Background on MySpace
(Is it me, or does it feel like 1998-99 these days?)
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