For the podcast, here’s a refeed of one of our more popular calls… Discussion about how to start a career in music management; how to find a good potential manager and train them well; avoiding sharks; pitfalls of management…
Is it still a street date if nothing actually hits the street?
Universal’s new digital skunk works releases some online-only titles today. [via PaidContent]
MSN Music + GarageBand
Remember those songs you used to have posted at MP3.com? They’re ba…ack…
We are GO for Podcast!
In the middle of the night, we activated some new features, thanks to our friends at AudioBlog and FeedBurner. Spinme’s RSS feed is now podcast-enabled!! What the heck does that mean? If you download a tool like iPodder and subscribe…
More P2P from an artist’s perspective…
Scott Andrew frames up filesharing and throws down the gauntlet for other emerging artists…
Multiple Streams of Music Income
I had a great call with our IndieBiz.com members this evening. So good, in fact, that I wanted to share it with you to show you the kind of work we’re getting done over there. On this call, I talk…
The next GBV is out there, somewhere…
What are you doing to affect your fans this way when you finally retire?
12 Tips for Pitching Your Act to Investors & Sponsors
Music Connection Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No 19 had a great article, "How to Pitch Your Act to Investors and Sponsors." Investors & sponsors do not want to receive unsolicited requests asking for money when you have no definite plan or…
“He Shared Songs? Throw the iPod at Him!”
Just when you thought the holiday season would be safe from goofy new legislation, the guv’mint wants to keep you from skipping commercials on your TiVo and put your audience in pound-ya-in-the-a** prison for three to ten years for sharing…
“I don’t believe every download is a lost sale.” – Jeff Tweedy
Wilco’s frontman talks to Wired News about how leaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on P2P networks (after their label refused to release it) saved their career. Oh yeah, their new album? At number 8 on Billboard.
Artists still out of the P2P loop…
Ed Felten’s analysis of the recent Penn P2P study attempts to find some common ground between labels who want to retain market value for music and consumers who want to support artists on a sliding scale. In all of the…
Granian and the Grey Lady
Congrats to TCM Client Granian on a superb review in the New York Times! Yes, that’s right. That New York Times. For everyone who’s going to send me an e-mail asking how an independent artist got some column inches in…