Don Henley is still pissed off.
E-Mail Still Rules, 11% of the time.
From usability guru Jakob Nielsen: E-newsletters that are informative, convenient, and timely are often preferred over other media. However, a new study found that only 11% of newsletters were read thoroughly, so layout and content scannability is paramount.
Square One
A campus newspaper from Seattle reminds us that every big name band started out in some local club somewhere…
Your Favorite DJs Call YOU For A Change
Streaming radio over cell phones was the holy grail for small broadcasters even when I helped launch xpn.org back in the late ’90s. With cheaper-every-week access and tools like mobile ShoutCast, if you don’t like your local stations, you can…
“And the Indie Queen took over.”
The first of many articles to describe, on the eve of her new release, what’s up with Ani Difranco.
When Plugging Songs, Don’t Threaten to Plug the Singer
Not the best way to get artists to cover your material.
Non-Comm Stations Among Top Streamers
Sometimes, market forces work in your favor. When AFTRA, the union that includes most voice-over announcers, forced stations to pay extra to use their talent on streaming audio, it pretty much eliminated the benefits of streaming for commercial radio. Non-comms…
Indie Retail Survives and Thrives
Whether it’s our own Schoolkids Records here in Athens, or other indie retail success stories, there’s lots of proof now that a tightly focused, fun independent record store can survive the same dismal market that caused the mighty Tower Records…
Data Loss
I’m suffering a little short-term data/e-mail loss… if you e-mailed me in the past few days and didn’t get a response, kindly resend. Thanks!
Goodbye, Corporate Pop?!
Andre Grey from DEMO has posted one of the most concise, coherent explanations of the current state of music commerce. I don’t know that I agree with him about how swiftly this will happen (I think it will take a…
Lo-Fi Living
On a total tangent, I invite you to visit “Lo-Fi Living,” our sister blog about living a transcendent life on a shoestring budget. We’ve been posting for a few days and it’s starting to feel ripe. (The good kind of…
LightningCD
Musician Nissa Ludwig puts a compelling spin on pay-per-download sites. Her LightningCD site not only lets you buy an album for ten bucks, like iTunes, it automates the process of burning that album to disc and printing official cover art…