I was going to post a link to Nancy Baym’s post about the issues that bands are facing when reaching out to under-18s, when I realized… you just need to be reading all of her blog, Online Fandom. Seriously, add…
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Indie band survival guide
I love this stuff: Beatnik Turtle’s indie band survival guide: We found, when we started out years ago, that there weren’t enough bands that shared what they’d learned. The information that we found useful was scattered in different magazines, books,…
Indie label growing pains
It’s not often that I see a blog post that draws public responses from the brass at hot indie labels like Merge and Secretly Canadian. Patrick Monaghan of Carrot Top Distribution was dismayed to discover CDs from Merge and SC…
Grow Your Band’s Audience with Weblogs
Tomorrow night (August 2) at 8pm ET, members can join me on a live conference call where we’ll discuss the power of weblogs. Not just getting your music picked up by a tastemaking MP3 blog, but methods that you can…
Black Eyed Peas Members Web
Black Eyed Peas are taking the membership idea even farther, with a weblog-like site that allows members to pay $2/mo for bonus material and even a personalized weblog! Very cool idea.
Stupid Things Bands Do + Set Up Your Own Event
While I was on the road, I almost missed the latest issue of our friend Dave Jackson’s Musician’s Cyber Cooler newsletter. This month, he asked a panel of folks to describe the stupidest thing they’ve seen bands do. The winning…
Sequencing IS Important…
See, folks still care about the order in which you’ve placed your songs…
BYBS: Templates & Weblogs (10/12/04)
Learn how to use our three recommended site building services to get a great site online in the next ten minutes! PLUS: Big technical discussion about RSS, a way to push information out to your audience!
MP3 Bloggers
Looking for more evidence that weblogs grow audience? Check out this roundtable meeting of six tastemaking MP3 bloggers.
Music Business Mastermind
In case you missed the announcement in our newsletter, our latest project, Music Business Mastermind, is now online! Here’s the idea: In an even more high-powered version of my old Strategy Seminar, we lock eight musicians in a room for…
Three kinds of blogs…
For folks getting ready to attend October’s Build Your Band’s Site workshop, Seth Godin outlines three styles of weblog with the pros and cons (mostly pros) of each.
So are you a “Rockin Mom?”
Rockin’ Moms was founded in July, 2004 by California Singer-Songwriter-Mom, Tiffany Petrossi. Inspired by her own experiences and those voiced by other Rockin’ Moms. Tiffany, a mother of two, has high hopes for the project. According to Petrossi, “The response…