02/25/10 – Grow Your Band\\\’s Audience Q&A Call
Top Ten MTV Specialty Shows
By the late 1980s, MTV’s programmers weren’t content with scattershot ratings, so they experimented with original series and specialty programming blocks. Today, MTV’s harshest critics blast Jersey Shore and The Hills as having nothing to do with rock and roll,…
Announcing the Music Management Boot Camp
Over the past few months, I’ve seen a huge surge of interest in my third book, Music Management for the Rest of Us. It could be that a bunch of folks are thinking about pursuing music industry careers, in the…
Don’t Underestimate the Power of an Audience
It seems like the music journalism community has decided that this is the week they can finally pile on Taylor Swift. In the past 36 hours, I’ve read headlines about her “career-ending” Grammy performance, bloggers and columnists have called for…
2010 Grammy Awards Recap
Everyone I know has a newfound respect for P!nk. Apparently, she’s been doing the wire act from last night’s Grammy Awards as an encore in her live set for some time now. That it was the standout moment in the…
01/28/10 – Music Management for the Rest of Us Q&A Call
Ingrid Michaelson Focuses on Live Gigs, Song Placement
This London Times profile of singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson deserves a little more than just a slot on this week’s “interesting links” list. A few slices of Michaelson’s life indicate the direction that savvy working musicians will need to take in…
Believing Your Own Story
Natalie Gelman’s recapping some of her favorite Seth Godin books on her blog, and relating what she’s learned to her experience as a New York City street musician. One of the most important things Godin said in the book for…
Mailbag: Music Management Degrees in New York City
Hello Mr.Taylor, I hope everything is going well with you. I found your website on google and I’m looking for someone to help me with some music management advice. Could you? I’ve been in NYC for almost 3 years, and…
Predicting the “Death of Twitter.”
Heather Nolte remarks that Twitter’s latest usage numbers show a decline in active users, from 23 million down to 20 million. Whether the novelty has worn off for some passive users of the service or whether the entire social media…
Social Media Tools that Grow Your Audience
Yes, I’m still working on the draft of “Grow Your Band’s Audience,” version 4.0. (Side note: if you buy the PDF version now, you will get a free upgrade to 4.0 when it launches.) One of the things I find…