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…
Pay-to-play…and not much more
Have a Rotten Time in Toronto
The folks at NXNE have just inked a deal with Johnny Rotten to provide the keynote speech at their June conference. Understanding that, yes, folks are concerned about SARS and Mad Cow Disease, Toronto is still one of the nicest,…
No Class Today / Compilation Update
Good news: we had a great time in Atlanta last weekend.Bad news: something did a number on my laptop, and it's taken me a few days to catch up.Therefore, I'm reluctantly rescheduling today's “Host Your Own Concerts” teleclass to June…
Check out a new tip service from our friends at Kathode Ray Music
Plug time: David Hooper has finally launched his KR Tip Sheet, a data dump of all the queries he gets every week from labels, bands and publishers who are seriously looking for great new songs and recordings. One of the…