Kitchens of the rock stars’ office staff: One day, your streem team captain could have a kitchen this nice.Keywords: fans
Managing risk is key
I plucked this bit from the website of a guy I sorta-kinda know, attributed to another guy I sorta-kinda know: “It’s not about luck. It’s about managing risk, so in the end it looks like luck.” Q: How do you…
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PayPal Mobile Arrives: If this takes off, it could really rev up your merchandise sales.Keywords: money, sales
Music, taxes and the “$400 Myth”
It’s tax time in the US, which means it’s also the season for what I call the “$400 Myth” to start circulating in musician circles. Here’s the myth as I hear it goes like this: “If I made less than…
Spoon frontman waxes about work ethic
Here’s a cool article on Brit Daniels and his band Spoon, and his workman-like approach to music: The singer-guitarist-songwriter says his years intently listening to radio hits were like “extensive research.” Knowing from the beginning that he cared most about…
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American Idol is also "a learning lab" the contestants call "star school" or "boot camp": Keywords: idol, showbiz, singing
Nashville Star no star-maker
Like its pop counterpart American Idol, the show Nashville Star has failed to produce country superstars as first expected. Second season winner Brad Cotter was dropped from his label after his post-NS release only sold 128,000 copies. (Is it me,…
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Sirius reaches deal with music studios: Keywords: licensing, music
It still takes money…
Coolfer points out that the new music business still needs money to function, and references two articles about the unseen overhead of promoting a single in the age of MP3s and MySpace. Cheap technology and internet may have eliminated some…
5 Questions with Evan Brubaker of Cake Records
In the mid-90s producer/engineer Evan Brubaker founded Cake Records as a boutique label, producing and collaborating on records by artists such as Holly Figueroa and Kym Tuvim. Since then, Cake has undergone a dramatic growth spurt, embracing a wide range…
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Changes to Flash and Quicktime in new Internet Explorer: If you’re using an embedded applet in your band’s web page, your site is about to get harder to use. And it’s not Microsoft’s fault.Keywords: websites
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Evan and Jaron show up to whore themselves on American Inventor’s premiere: Keywords: selfemployment