Editorial

I didn’t even know if I was going to post anything about this deliberately leading Washington Post piece. It’s designed to push your buttons if your a female guitarist, but I think there’s an opportunity to debate. What I understand…

Phyllis Stark of Billboard takes a look at the A & R system in Nashville. Ms. Stark interviewed Brad Cotter, last year’s winner of “Nashville Star;” Buddy Jewell, 1st “Nashville Star;” and A & R from Universal and Capitol Records.…

Warner had a good idea in promoting the Secret Machines through weblogs, but the project went off the rails when somebody tried the good-old “lots of fans love this song at the same IP address” trick…

Tom Leu, of the The Musicians Corner, gives his opinion regarding “covers or originals.â€?? Should your band play covers of other artist’s music or should you write and play your own original music? Covers, or “headlinersâ€?? as one enlightened gentleman…

A number of our clients have been asking what’s been going on with bookings this summer. Is it always this hard? The answer is, “no.” Sure, getting bookings is one of the toughest things for an emerging artist to deal…

We’ve been referencing the U.K.’s Sanctuary Group as the model of a strong music business keiratsu — management, booking and label under one roof. In the old school of business, you’d never want to trust one company with all three…

How labels are gaming the playlist system to affect sales…

Originally scheduled as a chat with Talent2K owner Carlo Oddo, our featured guest declined to appear. With help from Fox Chicago’s consumer reporter Danielle Serino, we led a group discussion about avoiding scams and learning to understand the difference between…

Carlo Oddo protests his company’s poor reputation in a post to MI2N this morning (which is odd, since Carlo is writing a letter and MI2N is a press release wire). I can buy the idea that an overzealous salesperson overcommitted…

I loved this review of Phish’s farewell NYC performance, because their runaway success does not seem to conform with the Grey Lady’s definition. Which is to say that, until bands like Phish, bands were only successful when the NYT said…

From BoingBoing, another compelling case for file sharing… if you know you’re not getting paid for your songs, like the singer from Sister Machine Gun, why not encourage file sharing?

…and rock on.