Interesting commentary from the Progress & Freedom Foundation on the effect of iTunes on piracy. Their basic argument: if iTunes is sellings songs at the right price point, then the *need* to pirate songs will diminish, marginalizing swappers. Meanwhile if…
Free Expo for California Artists
Folks near Cal State Fullerton: register for your free admission to a great art & artists expo this August. You’ve got to be among the first 1,000 artists to get in for free, so register now!
Spring Fever Sale on “Grow Your Band’s Audience”
You could call it Spring Fever. You could call it our wish to give you more tools for success. You could call it just plain crazy.We’re doing something we have never done before. We’re offering our flagship book, “Grow Your…
Contact Directory Roundup
Dave Jackson’s just posted reviews of the major indie music directories. If you’ve been mulling over which one to purchase, you’ll want to hear what Dave has to say.
Dax: Making It Easy To Share
It’s absolutely true, as documented in this Fox News report, that you can create a top ten record with about $1,500. What it doesn’t say until the last line is that you also need to have honed your songwriting ability.…
Zeebo Turns Two
Congrats to Mark Weber — his Christian Music E-Zine, Zeebo turns two years old this week. Every week, Mark covers new releases and industry events with a literary flair. Here’s to many more years!
Trash Proof Press Releases
Joe’s entering RANT MODE… Nothing riles me up more than a poorly written press release. It annoyed me when I was a business reporter, it annoyed me when I used to do radio news, and it annoys me even more…
RAVE Act Protests Begin
We’ve been covering the RAVE Act in all its flavors in our newsletters for a long time. It finally cleared Congress a few weeks back when it was bundled with the Amber Alert legislation. (Reminds me of the episode of…
We never had assembly like this…
Here’s an innovative and clever way to grow your high school audience — become a guest speaker/performer!
Welcome, Summer!
For our readers in the U.S., I hope you had an enjoyable holiday weekend – we actually shut down our office for TWO WHOLE DAYS, and celebrated the unofficial start of summer at, of all things, a Herman’s Hermits show.…
Another Club DIY in LA coming up…
June 5th in Los Angeles, there’s a Club DIY event about music publishing. If you live there, you should go. That is all.
Got a Spare Thumb?
The folks at SongCritic are trying something interesting. Artists can pay $5 to post a song, and have it reviewed by a few hundred of their regular readers. The $5 is more than fair to cover their operating overhead (streaming…