Joe Taylor Jr. advises musicians that want to book more gigs...
Al Lewis launched into a Wall Street Journal essay on the economy with the phrase: Shared sacrifice follows every disaster. It’s only a matter of deciding who shares it. Thinking about some of the choices Lori and I have been making in our own household, it’s not surprising that there’s a huge slump in ticket [...]
[At the start and end of every week, I'll reserve one post for a product, service, or sponsor that's paying to keep the lights on at spinme.com.] Even though I’ve offered a version of Grow Your Band’s Audience as a PDF for some time now, it’s not always the easiest thing to read on a [...]
Techcrunch profiled Nimbit, a “band-to-fan” e-commerce platform that seems to roll up all the services from CDBaby, HostBaby, and Fanbridge into a single service. According to Rip Empson, the service has already rolled up $5 million in venture capital it plans to use to hire application developers and other key team members. The company that [...]
Hollywood’s going nuts this weekend, because of a deal between Lionsgate, Groupon, and Fandango, to pack theatre seats for the premiere weekend of Matthew McConaughey’s new movie, “The Lincoln Lawyer.” Here’s how the deal works. In most cities, it costs $11 to see a first-run movie. Lionsgate and Groupon offered a deal for $6 tickets [...]
Rebecca Black made it into the iTunes Top 100 this week. While Jay Frank’s analyzing the songwriting mechanics that make Rebecca Black’s “Friday” a chart success, I’ve been getting lots of e-mail and DMs about a new wave of song sharks using the viral video bandwagon to convince parents to sign their kids up for [...]
I’ve been teaching some workshops on social media lately, and one of the questions that comes up very often involves how to keep Twitter and Facebook status updates from taking over your life. In the new edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience, I updated my advice about staying accessible and available. To stay focused on [...]
The first I heard about the scandal at NPR was a tweet from my former colleague at WXPN, Bruce Warren: That sounds about right. In case you haven’t been following the news, a senior NPR official got pranked by a right wing blogger. The gist: a Muslim donor might be able to influence NPR’s news [...]
Michael Epstein suggests that microfunding better suits a label model, where funders on a Kickstarter-type campaign can invest in a slate of projects rather than in a particular artist. Scott Andrew notes that sites like RocketHub encourage some acts to put the cart before the horse, raising money from an audience they haven’t yet cultivated. [...]
