That Robert Levine spends two pages talking about digital distribution without mentioning the runaway success of CDBaby boggles the mind. However, the article does frame up the interesting position that the Orchard has taken. Instead of focusing on the onesy-twosy…
There’s a new sheriff in town…
hard rock chair and me Originally uploaded by spinme. Lori’s new year’s resolution was to get her own website revved up… check out her quest at daisyclub.com
The Coffeehouse Talent Buyer State of Mind
Finally getting back to speed after getting a bad, bad cold during my holiday expeditions (the cold all my Northeast U.S. clients warned me that I would get!) — I’m catching up on a few hundred e-mails. If I haven’t…
Happy New Year!
I had such high ambitions for putting together a great end of year wrap-up, but my clients have kept me so busy that I will have to leave you to your own devices — go ahead, use the date archives,…
Remaindered Links: December 21
Great newbie overview of digital music publishing options.: Keywords: business, music
CDBaby + Best Buy
Weeks are flying by so fast around here, and I realize I hadn’t even weighed in on the CDBaby/BestBuy.com mashup. Basically, if you go wayyyy down here into the cellar of their site, there’s a “Browse CDBaby” button and a…
Athens House Concert Venue Gets Shut Down by Code Enforcement
I wrote about this in Host Your Own Concerts, but we’ve got an example of it here in Athens, where lots of folks host house concerts, backyard parties, and tailgates with live music. House concerts typically work best in a…
Is the iPod hurting music sales?
Why? Why do industry experts insist on coming off as crotchety old hillbillies, sitting on the porch, talking about how “in my day, we didn’t have no dadgum eye pods. We had heavy laminate discs you had to spin around…
Interview Do’s and Dont’s
One of our clients came up with the idea for this upcoming teleclass… So many independent musicians go nuts trying to get that very first interview, then they don’t know what to do once they’re sitting across from a real…
Arctic Monkeys: Not on MySpace
Thanks to Emily and other Arctic Monkeys fans for reminding me that the band does not actively maintain a MySpace page — that page is a fan creation. Which jibes with our contention that MySpace is not quite the mighty…
Meanwhile, in the members area…
Even though you can peek at what’s going on in our personal music mentoring program by checking out the stripe in our sidebar, it’s always good for me to bring you up to speed on a few discussions among our…
Three Degrees of Rap
Nature reports that, despite bloodshed and intense public rivalry, pretty much every professional rapper is connected to every other professional rapper by three degrees of separation. In fact, if you are Snoop Dogg, you are actually caught in a vortex…