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About This Business of Fans
What musicians need to know about the current state of fan culture. One of the first signs that your music…
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Rise of the Visual Performer
Who are these mysterious creatures, and what do they mean to the music industry? We live in a digitized-networkized-iPodized-viralized-voyeurized society…
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Hearing Loss—The Lower the dB Number, The Better
There’s nothing like the feeling of cranking up the volume on a PA so high it can be registered on…
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DJ’s & Hearing Loss – Auditory Sacrifice?
How Far Will We Go For the Next Monster Bass-line? In the club scene, many DJs think that sacrificing their…
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Hearing Loss Can Kill A Music Career
We’ve Got The Details On How To Save Your Ears Forget the Swine Flu. Hearing loss in the music industry…
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The Internet Radio Royalty Dispute
The Internet Radio Royalty Dispute: Is Internet Radio Helping Or Hurting Musicians? Last week, we looked at the incredible changes…
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Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star, but the Internet Might
Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star, but the Internet Might: How Musicians Stand to Benefit from Internet Radio Why We…
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The Price: The Intense Life Cycle of the Working Musician
Last time, we discussed the ooey, gooey guts of what it takes to go from jamming in your basement to…
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The Passion: Staying Sane and Creative Under Pressure
So far in this series, we’ve talked to musicians about everything from breaking into the business, to working with labels,…
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The Push: How to Engineer Your Big Break
As part of our continuing effort to educate and inspire all you rockers out there about the often gritty, sometimes…
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Music Heard Round the World: Using Podcasting to Promote Your Sound
Last time, we were talking about Pump Up the Volume—one of the greatest movies ever made about indie media and…
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Create Your Own Podcast Under the Holy Trinity of Indie Rock
Easy, Cheap, Professional, Amen: How to Create Your own Podcast Under the Holy Trinity of Indie Rock In 1990, a…
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How Podcasting is Revolutionizing the Music Industry
Make no mistake. We are in the midst of a music revolution. It’s not a revolution in style, or in sound, but rather an opening-up of the industry.
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3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked
When emotion drove stock-market prices to absurd new highs during the ’90s tech boom, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan famously said
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Defining the True Artist – Do You Have What It Takes?
“The real communicating artists seek unique expression. They are not interested anymore in sounding like their heroes; they are searching…
