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December 10, 2010

What Can You Learn from Brett Domino?

December 10, 2010

In this age of instant gratification and short attention spans, online videos have become a staple of entertainment and discovery, with millions of options at your fingertips. Video gives musicians many different kinds of chances to stand out, either through covers, unorthodox instrumentation, or displaying their senses of humor or out-sized personae. Brett Domino has used ...

The Dalai Llama's Advice on Building a Fan Base

December 7, 2010

How the artist and fan relationship is manifested on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, the artist's own web site and bolg as well as at live shows, can make or break a career. (Just ask Kayne West.) Too often, artist and fan interactions feel forced or even worse, driven entirely by commerce. (Buy my fabulous new album!) Anyone ...

Music Has Been Reduced to a Set of Flow Charts.

December 7, 2010

"Listening to music has historically made people feel free and let us revel in our subjectivity. By contrast, listening to Pandora makes you feel predictable. The first few times I tried Pandora and heard the new songs derived from my old songs, as clone puppies might be derived from a dead dog, I lost my fighting ...

Leaksport: Why Your Music Just Ain't Safe Anymore...

December 7, 2010

The leak used to be a one-dimensional concept. You finished your music, and then it leaked ahead of street date. And everyone was stressing out. Then, things got really complicated. Not only were songs leaking, they also started leaking half-baked. Unfinished, raw, released by nefarious insiders. And totally and completely against the wishes of the artist. ...

5 Things I Think About Every Day as a Professional Musician

December 8, 2010

If you were to take a look at my planner, you'd see no two days alike. I have a career that's filled with a great amount of variety. One day I'm playing musical theatre auditions, the next day I may be playing organ at a church, the next day I might have a songwriting session with ...

Should an Artist Sign a 360 Deal?

December 8, 2010

From the man that brought you Managing Musical Artists in the new Digital World comes Should An Artist Sign A 360º Deal? In this new video, Peter Malkin grills a “label executive" on the kinds of services and knowledge they should have before he'll agree to let his artist enter a 360 deal with them. It ...

A Four-Part New Year's Exercise for Musicians

December 8, 2010

BY: Ariel Hyatt After traveling to eight countries this year, teaching master classes and speaking on panels the thing that stands out for me is: How hard we can be on ourselves. It's almost the end of the year, and it was a crazy year for most of us. Musicians and colleagues alike tell me that ...

I Think We Could All Use "A Bit More Miles Davis"

December 8, 2010

Interesting business story on BusinessJournalism.org about Miles Davis and the effectiveness of his longtime association with the notion of 'cool.' Alan Deutschman's article finds him at the Eleven Madison Park restaurant in New York. During a tour of the kitchen, he notices a large photograph of Miles Davis. It turned out that four years earlier, ...

PledgeMusic Starts Record Label, Signs First Band

December 4, 2010

With the goal of fully leveraging their Pledge system as an A&R platform, PledgeMusic has launched a record label and publishing company. Indie starlets The Damnwells are the first act to sign on with PledgeMusic Recordings; they will retain all rights, ownership, and publishing. In turn, PledgeMusic Recordings will provide the group with the guidance and ...