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5 Reasons Not to Sign a Record Deal
This guest post comes from the folks at likeZEBRA, a new site offering artists a growing suite of direct to fan promotion and sales tools. 1. Competition for Attention--Music artists are already forced to compete for the attention and interest of fans; they shouldn't have to compete for that attention within their own ...
How to Plan a Budget for Your New Album
As every musician knows, recording an album costs money. Managing this money is of the utmost importance as an independent artist. In a detailed piece on MusicianWages, Cameron Mizell discusses considerations that need to be taken and choices that must be made when creating a budget for your new album. The piece tackles such issues as ...
Jambase Questionnaire: Nathan Moore
Welcome back to JamBase's baker's dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from Plants and Animals. There's something beautifully broken yet unassailably indestructible about Nathan Moore. Perhaps it's because when he “lets it all hang out" you get the full boat of human emotions. Few artists of any kind live ...
Consider a Promotionless to Popular Strategy First
If there's anything that Bruce Warila is well-known for, it's smashing heads with conventional thinking and providing new insight into why artists do the things they do, and more specifically, why they shouldn't do others. In his latest contribution to Music Think Tank, Warila takes his shiny axe to the idea that artists should always be ...
Yo Canada.
I've had a lively correspondence going with one of the blog stalwarts and pillar of decency, Stanley Zappa, about Canada, his adopted home. He tells me about how their art support system works and I give him background on how it ended up the way it is. He sent me some questions from some convened panel ...
Jazzed: DJ, promoter and music lover Matthew Feldman's next dream is a nightclub in S. Philly
THE BUILDING on the corner of McKean and Colorado has stood vacant for more than 25 years--and looks it. The doors are secured by a heavy, padlocked chain. The windows are boarded shut. Even the liquor-license application notice, the one sign of progress visible from the outside, has faded from the familiar, safety-cone orange to a ...
Artist Recording Collective News Update
DR. RONNELL L. BRIGHT--The Artists Recording Collective (ARC) is pleased to officially announce that Dr. Ronnell L. Bright has joined our artist roster. In a telephone conversation with ARC, Dr. Bright and his wife Dianna, stated that material ranging from unreleased musical recordings, as well as audio and video interviews will be released...."Jazz is ...
Fortune's Fool: Goodman on the Record Industry
As is the case when a new tome is released that chronicles the plight of the record industry in the digital age, interviews abound, and author Fred Goodman's latest book, Fortune's Fool, is no different. That said, it has been interesting to see a new perspective emerge where the likes of Steve Knopper and Greg Kot ...
Getting Your First Gig...
This guest post is by David Chaitt of SoundCtrl. ...is a matter of thinking from a talent buyer's perspective and making promises you can keep. The first thing you have to think about is which venue to contact. Reach out to a venue that makes sense (aka if you're an indie band, don't reach out to ...
How to be a Successful Musical Entrepreneur
Industry pundit and analyst Andrew Dubber has famously said that, “If you want to make the music that moves you, that will hopefully create meaning for people, and that will perhaps earn you a sustainable living, then you have chosen risk, and you will have to be as smart with the entrepreneurship as you are with ...
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