Originally uploaded by spinme. I wanted to wish Joe Happy Birthday today! He is very hardworking and loves what he does! Happy Birthday Joe! Love, Lori
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There’s a new sheriff in town…
hard rock chair and me Originally uploaded by spinme. Lori’s new year’s resolution was to get her own website revved up… check out her quest at daisyclub.com
Even 50 Cent Plays House Concerts
…sure, he gets $500,000 for them… Track these topics:
Who’s disrupting the market in your hometown?
In the presentation I give at conferences and seminars about hosting house concerts, I note that many music lovers (especially folks who are old enough to own their own homes) are getting tired of shabby rock clubs. Too often, I…
back from mini-hiatus
…been totally absorbed on a client’s recording project for the past few days. If you’ve sent me messages or left me voice mail, I’m back on the case.
What price integrity?
We’ve talked a lot on our conference call about how placement in commercials not only means some short term financial gain for a songwriter, but an important alternate mode of reaching large audiences for relatively unknown bands. Jason Gross from…
Rock Star: INXS — Finale
It’s over… J.D.’s your new lead singer of INXS.
Making Their Own Breaks
Newsweek profiles Gilli Moon and other artists using new technology to connect directly to their audiences.
Should we build our own day planner?
I’ve been toying around with the idea of releasing a spinme.com day planner that can accommodate all the stuff we talk about on our calls — two pages per day with space for booking and technical contacts, built-in goals tracking…
Shaking the day job…
A selection of artists from my neighborhood go on the record about their day jobs. Most folks work part-time gigs so they can tour, although many of my own clients are enjoying dual-tracking. One telling quote: Even while playing in…
in review, part 2 of 5
I’m on the road, and GMail is unusually fritzy… so on with our look back at the year’s most talked-about posts. Here’s what was on the top of our minds in February: Given enough time, clubs can survive just fine…
What Grokster Means for Independent Musicians
This is a troubling ruling. As we have discussed on our conference calls, file sharing has always been a threat to labels and a benefit to artists. Yes, as some folks will probably e-mail me later today, a file that…