Editorial

When I first wrote Grow Your Band’s Audience as a series of magazine articles in 1998, one of the things I discovered was that this animosity between bookers and bands was mostly show. Posturing. Folks acting like that was the…

Mini-rant time. I am on the road quite a lot. And even when I am not on the road, I have a tendency to drop in at Kinko’s (or such)and use borrowed terminals. If I happen to surf across a…

One of the first examples of the legislation-formerly-known-as-RAVE. This is a pretty extreme example, but as local authorities become more aware of the powers of this law, musicians are going to have to take a leading role in educating audiences…

Seriously, if the RIAA would put this much energy into helping its members recruit stellar A&R staffs and invest in real artist development, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Grammy winner Shelby Lynne, who has a remarkable tale to tell about major label relations, is coming to town. Here’s the rub — her old label still owns her domain name (shelbylynne.com) and is re-directing it to IslandRecords.com. Understandable, but…

Pearl Jam may not know what they’re going to do, now that their deal with Sony is up, but whatever it is will be a good example for a lot of us to follow…

In all the commotion over file sharing, this gem of a discussion on Slashdot illustrates the point that tweens and teens are more than willing to pay for entertainment — provided it’s of high quality. Ask yourself: will your audience…

Just stumbled upon the tongue-in-cheek Sellout Watch of indie artists with prominent placements in commercials.

In the Christian Science Monitor article on Indie Music (and O’Reilly’s discussion of it), lots of attention is focused on the notion that purchasers tend to be older audience members who are unwilling/unable to download music. I agree with O’Reilly…