I made a survey and had over 100 people complete the questionaire. I intend to write more about what I learned, but in the meantime, I put some of the data in a visualization. Music Consumer GenerosityInfogram Header photograph by Adrian Korte on Unsplash
TuneCore is expensive, but you want to get your music on big channels like Spotify. These alternatives may help!
I designed the cover for Row Boat and Apta’s collaboration from photos I took at Silly Mountain.
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This debate about Spotify payouts isn’t new, but it has flared up again due to Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich pulling some of his catalog and getting vocal about it. I want to respond to some of the critics and frame the information and sticky points because I don’t think Read more…
Record Union is vastly superior to Tunecore. I’ll break down why for you!
The Handleman Company was one of the major CD distributors in the US for quite a few years. They were based in Troy, Michigan. They supplied CDs to major retailers including Walmart, Kmart, Best Buy and a few others. Handleman flourished while recorded music was still popular to buy, particularly Read more…
Today there have been a lot of articles regarding the state of the music industry floating around, particularly via Boing Boing and a lot of people’s Livejournals. So, I’m going to share some of the best articles I have saved the past few years, since so many people are interested Read more…
Any independent musician marketing themselves in a serious way should read this guy’s blog: Welcome And his free ebook: https://web.archive.org/web/20120622232137/http://newmusicstrategies.com:80/ebook/ What is prompting me to write this is this particular post: https://web.archive.org/web/20150603073711/http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/04/15/thing-11-the-death-of-scarcity/ It is basically a brief article about the economics of endless supply in how it relates to music Read more…
This topic has been discussed exhaustively on many of my friends journals (many people who are in bands signed to independent labels). For those of you who I have debated the downloading/pirating/dying record label issue with, I suggest reading this: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15137581/the_record_industrys_decline/print I know one of the major arguments is that Read more…