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Are You Building a Band or a Business?
This guest post comes from Jason Spitz, a marketing & ecommerce expert with a serious music obsession. Follow him on Twitter at @jasonspitz. If you want to make music, start a band. If you want to make money, start a business. It's that simple. Bands and businesses are two different entities with different objectives. If your ...
Why NXNE is Better Than SXSW
Mention South by Southwest to any band, and they will know exactly what you are talking about. Mention North by Northeast (a.k.a. NXNE), however, and you might get some puzzled looks. But for a young band, if I had to pick between SXSW and NXNE, there is no doubt in my mind that I would skip ...
Rick Rubin: Music Biz Could Be Bigger Than Ever
Recorded music sales continue to struggle and the leadership at the top of Sony Music is shifting, but Rick Rubin continues to exhibit the Zen master attitude that's helped to make him a legendary force in music both as a producer and recently as co-chairman of Columbia Records. The music industry “could be a bigger business ...
Blue Memories - un ricordo di Pierpaolo Faggiano
by AAJ Italy Staff
La rituale impaginazione degli articoli di All About Jazz Italia, anche se materialmente fattibile, risulta oggi impossibile. Abbiamo appreso da qualche ora la sconvolgente notizia della scomparsa di Pierpaolo Faggiano, da anni collaboratore di All About Jazz Italia. L'attuale mondo telematico rende possibile arrivare nelle case di migliaia di lettori. E consente di stringere amicizie con ...
The Importance of Knowing What You "Sound Like..."
“So what do you sound like?" Almost every new artist will get asked this question at some point, and yet it is something that many artists resist thinking about. Those same artists will say things like “We do our own thing!" or “We don't sound like anyone else," or “We don't want to be categorized." However, ...
More Road Music: Canon for Canyon Country
After that 15-hour drive to Detroit last September, I swore I'd never do such a trip again. But the opportunity to explore the national parks of southwest Utah was too tempting, and besides, we were breaking up the drive into manageable segments, round trip from the Bozeman, MT area. I was warned there would be absolutely ...
8 Reasons Why Vinyl is Cleaner Than the Cloud...
Think digital is actually good for the environment? Less CDs, plastic, paper inserts, and physical shipping are all positive developments, but digital (and its hyped-up cloud) comes with heavy environmental baggage. iPads, smartphones, and Beatsby Dre headphones all get dumped into landfills eventually, and the cloud is arguably filthy: just a few months ago, Greenpeace gave ...
Is There a Scientific Explanation for Justin Bieber?
Popular tastes in music have long had the power to perplex. What can possibly explain the public's fascination with Madonna; the odd enthusiasm for Milli Vanilli; the stark raving madness over David Cassidy or Justin Bieber? Why does one bit of embarrassing fluff breeze to the top of the charts while a thousand other bits of ...
The Next MySpace
A few years ago basically every internet-conscious band or artist had a MySpace profile. Times change and so does the internet; and MySpace has been dethroned with no other 'king' in sight. So music business folks love talking about “the next MySpace." There will be no “next MySpace." Here's why: MySpace came up in the early ...
Why Messy Rights = Lost Deals...
If only it were about the music, and the music alone! But when it comes to licensing songs and striking deals, music supervisors, publishers, and managers keep telling us the same thing. That is, if artists have complicated rights situations, they can easily lose opportunities to the next band or songwriter. “I shy away from [slotting] ...
