Wired looks at Nettwerk’s Terry McBride (tags: musicbusiness) Free Song Download: Weird Al Yankovic Comes Out With Song & Animated Film Parody of RIAA : “Don’t Download This Song” (tags: musicbusiness) Names, Numbers & Big Breaks If you’re waiting for…
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22 Lessons from Wayne Dyer (tags: powerfulthought)
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Taylor Hicks sues former producer for selling old songs on iTunes (tags: musicbusiness) Meet Some Of My MySpace Friends, errr… Spammers (tags: myspace) Beck Makes the Infinite Album Todd Rundgren did this, too. Just about a decade too soon.
Blogging’s light, because… well… look at this.
Multimedia message Originally uploaded by spinme. I’m working on location with a client this week in a beautiful part of the country. California, to be exact, and that’s Lake Tahoe in the distance. No broadband where we’re at, so I’m…
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Singing in the shower was never meant to come to this (tags: gadgets) “I cannot believe the future of music is giving it away” | Digital Copyright Canada (tags: musicbusiness)
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Cut rate downloads won’t stop piracy (tags: piracy downloads) Tower Falls (tags: tower+records) Indie Music Industry – Radio, It Aint What It Used To Be (tags: musicbusiness) PODCAST: Gerd Leonhard on why attention–not content–is king (tags: musicbusiness) The Way It…
Internet Buzz Is Not the Same as Street Buzz
I was helping to produce a seminar for musicians at the front end of the MySpace explosion — this was a few years ago — and a band pitched a booking agent at the event by saying, “we’ve already got…
Selling Tickets to Your House Concerts or Special Events
Readers of Host Your Own Concerts know how I advocate advance ticket sales as a great way to guarantee attendance at your next gig. eTickets.to is a new UK-based service that’s offering flat-rate ticketing, and seems to offer the same…
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Cut rate downloads won’t stop piracy (tags: piracy downloads)
KZLA Format Change: “We Work for Our Advertisers”
As someone who spent more than a decade working in radio, I often confuse folks in my seminars and my mentoring program when I tell them not to spend a whole lot of time worrying about getting played on the…
Does my pre-order entitle me to bittorrent a CD? Five Tips for Effective Record Releases
Jason Calacanis opens up a great question for debate. If you pre-order a CD, does your support of an artist entitle you to grab it via bittorrent? If you’re a working musician, this question offers an opportunity to serve your…
Guitar Tab Archive Shut Down Due to Copyright Issues
OLGA, a venerable and very popular guitar tablature archive, received “take down” notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Guitar tab archives are such a gray area for working musicians. For up-and-comers on a budget, guitar tabs are a simple,…