I sure as heck didn’t know what Radio CBC 3 was until I saw this report from a Toronto paper. What a delightfully subversive use of tax dollars — the state-funded CBC has a Skunk Works building new web and…
Bob Mould Blogs!
Bob Mould just launched a weblog!
Cheese and Crackers!
The Cracker Barrel restaurant chain has launched an indie music label! Another example of alternative distribution methods opening up opportunities for independent musicians. And excuses to overindulge at breakfast.
Kindercore Lawsuit Gets Ugly, Expensive
In our little town of Athens, this has been big news. The folks that started Kindercore Records let themselves get bought out a little while back, and things apparently went downhill from there. The out-of-town money guys released a statement…
Birthday Shopping
If someone would like to buy Grand Royal Records for me for my birthday, I wouldn’t object. It’s frighteningly affordable.
[plug] Levinhurst Spring U.S. Tour
We’re currently organizing a spring U.S. tour for Levinhurst, the new project from Lol Tolhurst (who you may remember as a founding member of The Cure). If you’re interested in bringing them to your town in March or April, e-mail…
Burn and Share
I wrote about this a while back, but I wanted to bring it up again. Our friend Veken from the band Granian has developed a counterintuitive but highly effective marketing campaign that capitalizes on how people really use music online…
What to do with your MP3’s
Following an outdated link on a band site, I swung by the discussion boards at MP3.com the other day. It strikes me as sheer lunacy that a number of otherwise talented folks are sitting around waiting for some other company…
Real Retail
Instead of worrying about getting distribution into all the big-box stores, meet some of the retailers who can really help you move your career forward.
Favor Bank / Interesting Opportunity
If you are in an electronica (and/or) goth (and/or) industrial band with a decent draw (25-50) in your home area, and you would like some exposure by opening up for / helping me set up shows with a national touring…
Justification #2,341,389 for hiring CDBaby as our exclusive commerce provider.
Another illustration of why we’re going exclusively with CDBaby in 2004. This is the kind of company that people laughed at in the nineties. It’s (relatively) low tech, but high touch. Instead of investing zillions in offshore servers like other…
CDBaby + TCM = Happy Joe
Beginning January 15th, fulfillment for all of our physical merch (books, discs, et al) will be handled exclusively by CDBaby. We had many problems in the 2nd half of 2003 with distrubutors and publishers going belly-up, and a handful of…