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Joe Taylor Jr.

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At 2NMC, you heard Dave and I talk about the importance of leaving comments on blogs so that your audience can triangulate you — associate you with events, people and issues that impact your music. The side benefit has been…

Quote of the day…

Even though it’s about film, it applies to all entertainment… "It’s a huge, huge learning curve with a lot of human wreckage behind." – Steven Soderbergh, in the New York Times.

Making yourself work…

If you’re already hitting a block on those new year’s songwriting resolutions, check out these suggestions for patching your personal suck…

SoundExchange is working…

We’ve had lots of chatter on the IndieBoard about songwriting and mechanical royalties, and while I was knee deep in the whole formation of SoundExchange because I worked in radio at the time, it’s amazing that word of SoundExchange is…

Get Health Insurance, Today.

David Hooper and I were talking about health insurance on one of our IndieBiz calls the other day, and he came up with a link to the company we were talking about. You’ll hear me rant about this issue a…

Today’s happy fun e-mail tip.

So if you are in a band and you spam everybody in the industry (including yours truly) with a "look at our site" message and someone somehow actually wants to respond to you, why would you ever send it from…

We Can Work It Out (In Post)

The next time you’re agonizing over your ProTools rig, remember that if you’re writing really great songs, fans will even come to love your "recording anomalies."

Submit your songs…

One of our clients is looking for a few more songs to round up an upcoming recording session — follow the instructions (don’t submit directly to me!) and have fun! Artist w/ major industry interest seeks songs for upcoming EP.…

Could You Use a “Stop Doing” List?

The few hours I got to work last week, I spent working with my clients on their master plans for the new year. And instead of focusing on what they should start working on, I let them off the hook…

The Post-Payola Slippery Slope

The folks over at Downhill Battle are understandably excited about Spitzer’s investigation. For their part, labels are a little excited and a lot relieved at the prospect of removing some of the promotion bulk from their budgets. (It’s not like…