I’ve been talking to clients a lot lately about ways that their day jobs can incubate their music careers. Check out this very subtle plug for a CD on this design company’s product page. If your music can help your…
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Joe Taylor Jr.
Concertpodding
Along with some really solid arguments about why compact discs are less and less relevant, Mark Cuban coins the phrase “concertpodding.” Bring a laptop to your merch table, and let folks hook it up to their own MP3 players for…
Music Is Finished In The Audience
Jeff Tweedy and Larry Lessig discuss the challenges of creating art in a vacuum.
Working on Progress
I know it’s been so quiet around here lately. Instead of the lots-of-quick-hits posting veteran spinme.com readers are accustomed to, I’ve been coming up for air with some big posts. Hang in there a few more days — once I…
Solve Other People’s Problems First
The inspiration for this post may come from a waaay-off-topic place, but it got me thinking (again) about the kinds of e-mails and phone messages my colleagues and I get every day. When you tell potential managers, talent buyers, and…
Since U Been Gone…
…the annual report.
The Five Second Rule: No Longer Just for Joe’s PB&J
I talk a lot with clients about how club bookers only want to know how many audience members you can bring in the door — what you actually do on stage, most don’t care about. It’s a slightly different story…
We Love The Long Tail
Brad Hill notes that the Long Tail appeals to the content creator in all of us. (You like me! You really like me!)
Heebie Jeebies
If Mark Cuban buys CBGB’s, he could start by cleaning the bathroom.
Put your pinky finger to your lips and say it with me… “One Hundred MEEEEEELLLLLION Dollars!”
Simon Fuller cashes out.
SXSW, Day 2
David Hooper finally eats something, and encounters strange bedfellows in Austin…
Come to our next gig! It’s 2,000 miles away and starts in five minutes!
Scott gets those messages, too.