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…
The line starts here.
What are you doing today that will someday get folks to wait in line for you?
We are STILL running out of band names…
Audrey brings us today’s cautionary tale of another band that has to go through painful effort and expense to re-brand themselves at the hands of a long-lost trademark owner…
MTV is so over Europe
Is this an unfortunate publicist’s typo, or are the MTV Europe Music Awards really being shown in North America on… MuchMusic?
The Persuaders
Tonight’s episode of Frontline is another must-see. Not because it cover the business of music per se, but because it posits that the more you bombard your customers with a message, the less they’ll respond. That’s certainly what we’ve observed…
Jumping Sharks
The other day, over at IndieBiz.com, I spoke with artist Trevor Levine about avoiding mediocrity without alientating a mainstream audience. It turned out to be one of the most compelling conversations I’ve had in recent months, so I thought I’d…
“When will the music industry do it right?”
Mark Cuban, of broadcast.com, Dallas Mavericks, and The Benefactor, tears off an almost Albini-esque rant about using P2P to generate cash.