Sunday was my birthday. I could have chosen to make it special by doing something completely different from normal. So, I did and I didn’t. I started my morning off in the usual way: coffee and a morning meditation. It was normal. Which made it special. I realized that I’m doing so much of what I’ve […]
In the late 1980’s, I left my former profession and moved to California to “do music and nothing else”. Just saying that was not enough. I quickly found out that I had to pay the bills. And those California bills were considerably more costly than the ones I had left behind in Texas. At many
I really don’t need to add to the fray regarding the possible demise of musicians making money by making their music. It’s been covered in so many ways: give your music away, piracy killed independent music, no it didn’t, and The Trichordist’s excellent essay on changes in the structure of payments to musicians for their
If you haven’t already found it, please click over to Sessionville’s web site and read my post with networking tips for getting local gigs. Independent bands and solo artists should find these tips to be of interest. While you’re there, be sure to check out what else Sessionvile has to offer. The crew there is
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I’m pleased and honored to have Jami McGraw offering you this guest post. Please be sure to check out Jami’s bio at the end of the post. This is a list of tricks and tips that will allow you to get a great sounding song/album, from your bedroom, basement, living room, bathroom, garage… well, you
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Be sure to read my updated and more complete review of BandCamp! (Click anywhere on these 2 sentences to see that post.) This is the penultimate review in a series based on my own research, plus awesome input from a number of other independent musicians. My basic goal in this series is to find the best-of-breed
This is the seventh song sales tool that I’ve reviewed after getting lots of wonderful input from many musicians across Twitter, the blogosphere and the web. My main interest right now is direct sales of digital downloads of songs, so that’s my focus in this series: TuneCore/SmashSongs/RootMusic, CreateSpace, ReverbNation and Genuine Caring. Like ReverbNation, CDBaby
Be sure to check out my updated and more complete review of ReverbNation. Let me put that another way: Don’t read this page. I do highly recommend reading the comments below this post, though. They are great indicators of why I wrote a “better” review of RN. The review here is old and has not been
As promised, I’m continuing my series of reviews of online musician song sales tools. The previous review went over RootMusic, SmashSongs and TuneCore and why, in the end, they don’t match my criteria. Today, I continue with the review of services that don’t meet the baseline that I eventually came up with for my focus: sites
