I want to know how you buy things from Bandcamp these days. Help me by taking this quick survey. I promise, it won’t be long and I’m not going to collect your email! This is…
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Record Union Vs Distrokid
TuneCore is expensive, but you want to get your music on big channels like Spotify. These alternatives may help!
Cover Design: Row Boat and Apta’s “Fracture”
I designed the cover for Row Boat and Apta’s collaboration from photos I took at Silly Mountain.
Record Union A&R Invite
Check out this page if you want your first release on Record Union at no cost.
My Take on the Spotify Debate
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…
Tunecore vs Record Union
Record Union is vastly superior to Tunecore. I’ll break down why for you!
Handleman Company, empty and abandoned.
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…
More Articles Regarding the Music Industry
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…
Music PR
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…
Music Piracy
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…