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Following an outdated link on a band site, I swung by the discussion boards at MP3.com the other day.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…
Live from Memphis
Christopher Reyes earns some column inches for his work on the excellent city guide LiveFromMemphis.com. Whether or not he’ll find enough revenue to hit his dream of hiring a $500K a year staff is up for debate. But this is…
GarageBand
I’ll pass on the iPod mini, but GarageBand makes me regret switching back to PCs after my last PowerBook self-immolated.
That Really Is An E-mail from Me.
I was having so much fun sending out the first Indie Music Club newsletter of the year, I plumb forgot to give it a subject line. That really is a message from me in your inbox. It isn’t spam or…
Idea: Build Your Band’s Site in Ten Minutes
I’m thinking of offering a free teleclass about ways you can build a good band website for under $5 per month, in about ten minutes, without any technical expertise. If you think you would go to this, please vote “aye”…
Video On The Cheap
Don’t know why this didn’t catch my eye sooner. Director Ryan McFaul put together this clip for the Ukes of Hazzard on a shoestring budget of $1800 plus a bunch of sweat equity. I think it looks sharper than lots…
Indie Music Dating
Dunno, but so much is summed up in this bulletin board posting.