For those of you who keep up in the Friendster/Facebook/LiveJournal communities (and for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about), MySpace is a site that anyone can use, fans and musicians alike. Although MySpace wasn’t necessarily…
Remaindered Links: January 31
AOL Is Selling Access To Your Inbox: If you have a lot of AOL addresses on your mailing list, stop expecting high response rates and start migrating your folks to RSS!Keywords: email, thisbizlifelinks
Looking for college internships?
Because we occasionally post leads about music industry internships, we now get a lot of folks showing up on the site looking for information on internships in Chicago, internships in New York, and even internships in London. Super!! You know,…
Anybody use Westone in-ear monitors?
One of our members has asked for advice on purchasing in-ear monitors. It’s such a subjective issue, that I wanted to throw the question to all of our readers. What in-ear monitors are you using? Like them? Would you buy…
Help musicians help themselves
Help musicians help themselves $10 can help. $5 can help. Any contribution can help. The folks at GiveMeaning.com are trying to raise $4,000 to fund one month of counseling for 40 musicians and artists. They recognize that depressed musicians often…
14 Songs In 28 Days?
Tomorrow is the first day of February, and the first day of the 3rd annual February Album Writing Month (FAWM). What is it? Sometimes we need a kick in the pants to “show up and get busy.” [FAWM] is an…
Indie label growing pains
It’s not often that I see a blog post that draws public responses from the brass at hot indie labels like Merge and Secretly Canadian. Patrick Monaghan of Carrot Top Distribution was dismayed to discover CDs from Merge and SC…
Class Action Lawsuit Against Indie Label Owner
If you wait by the phone for the day that someone calls you and tells you that with a $5,000+ deposit, they’ll make you famous and distribute your music on radio stations worldwide, do your research before signing over the…
Remaindered Links: January 27
Nettwerk Music Group Takes on the RIAA: Keywords: RIAA, business, music The Beginning Of The End: More on the war between managers and labels, from Lefsetz.Keywords: riaa Bob Baker’s Artist Empowerment Radio: What’s New?: Keywords: advice, success Nettwerk Pays Legal…
Napsterize Your Knowledge!
There’s a popular phrase that’s popped up in marketing circles: “Napsterize knowledge.” What the heck does that mean? Simple: if you know something useful or interesting, share it and watch it spread, and build your reputation in the process. How…
Can’t beat piracy? Work with it, instead!
There’s no way to compete with people who are downloading music illegally, so why not team up with the system so the songs that people download could be yours? Indie distributor Jeff Price, who started TuneCore, uses digital distribution to…
Maybe if he had talked up the pizza beforehand?
Rhonda goes to a Bob Guiney show and ends up watching Anchorman and eating free pizza…