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The Future of Music Coaltion Looks to the Past to Understand How Musicians Make Money [Part I, Interview]
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0savesSave Whether or not you’re a musician, over the past ten years or so there have been incredible shifts in the music industry. It wasn’t very long ago that you probably didn’t buy your music over the Internet, or have the ability to listen to any song you wanted to hear with a couple [...]
Continue reading...ASCAP EXPO 2011 in Review
12. May 2011
0savesSave Over the past few years my producer, Dave Mallen, has come back from Los Angeles around this time brimming with excitement and lots of new knowledge on how to have a career in music. For him, it’s been a longer number of years than I that he’s considered himself a true professional. But [...]
Continue reading...What Are You Up Against as a Musician – Being Ignored, Deleted, and Unnoticed in a Content Driven World
19. January 2011
0savesSave I was inspired to write a piece today on promoting yourself as a musician (shows, your music, anything really) from the How to Run a Band blog’s post, “Are Fliers for a show Even Worth it?“. It is a legitimate question and I would like to take it a step further. Mostly I’d like [...]
Continue reading...Here Lies Myspace.com: 2003 – 2011
4. January 2011
0savesSave I don’t like making predictions, but I’m going to make one for social media (and in conjunction music industry) this year: Myspace is going to die. In some ways Myspace is already dead. People and fans no longer sign in and bands have given up on using it to promote themselves. I hate to [...]
Continue reading...The Beatles on iTunes: Too Late and a Gimmick
17. November 2010
0savesSave I’m sure everybody has heard by now that The Beatles catalog is now up on iTunes. It took a long time for the songs to get up on iTunes because of the whole trademark infringement case Apple (Steve Jobs’ gig) and Apple Corps (The Beatles gig) went through for decades. But that was settled [...]
Continue reading...Why is Music Cheaper Now? It’s as Simple as Supply and Demand
22. October 2010
0savesSave About a month ago a blog post titled “Why Your Art is Cheaper Than a Latte” appeared on the Digital Music News blog. In it, the post focused on the singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens, and the reaction he and his label had to the declining price of music (CD or digital). I’ll talk about Mr [...]
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25. October 2011
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