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Host Your Own Concerts Call 6/18/04
Here’s a call where I cover the basics of hosting your own concerts — just before I get wiped off the face of the earth by a freak thunderstorm! On top of everything else, our server’s busted, so until we…
Anyone see my a**?
Notable for two things: 1) How genuinely funny this is. 2) How genuinely original this is. David Hooper has the play-by-play.
Save bandwidth on your hosted MP3’s
Thanks to the Internet Archive’s new FreeCache project, you can conserve your bandwidth when posting links to your MP3 or other media files. Just stick the URL: http://freecache.org/ …in front of your own URL. Like this: http://freecache.org/http://yourserver.com/yourfile.mp3 (don’t click this…
Why Radio Can’t/Won’t Play Your MP3
Some buzz from BoingBoing on an issue we’ve known about for some time. Professional radio stations generally can’t play an MP3 that you e-mail to them, and it has nothing to do with copyright or preference or legitimacy. It’s all…
Dave Loves Stinky Cheese
Behold, one of the best backstage riders ever. It gets its point across with style and a sense of humor…
Bands Without Fans
Though I’m not a fan of the title, here’s a good example of the kind of pitch you can make to a club booker. Show them that you’re focused on getting folks in the door, even if it means an…
Indie Or Major? Sometimes, It Doesn’t Matter.
Everyone should read Bobby Borg’s analysis of an indie deal gone horribly wrong…
Should you use cheap CDR’s for your music?
In the case of blank CDs, steer clear of those cheap no-name bulk CD offers, unless you don’t care about how long the disk will last. Meanwhile, don’t pay extra for ‘audio’ CDs for your computer’s CD burner. They’re really…
Artists should consider whether a label can do more than they can themselves
According to Scott Harrington, music attorney & counsel for the Rolling Stones and the Eagles, unsigned artists should look inward. In a recent Music Connection interview, Harrington noted 2 hot issues concerning artists’ rights. Labels now demand assignment clauses, a…
New to songwriting?
Found this great site with songwriting tips, publishing tips, etc. Registration is free, so what you are waiting for! The faculty at this site is pretty impressive.
The Three P’s
Mike Farley, a singer-songwriter & publicist from Nashville, stated in an article posted at Taxi.com: The problem, and you could probably apply this to any business or creative endeavor, is that most musicians lack one or all of what I…