Tweet The New Rockstar Philosophy tour continues. This time we’re in our hometown of Saskatoon, Canada at MoSoConf2013. We’re happy to not only be a part of a speaking session for attendees but we’re also part of an exciting panel talking about Emerging Practices in Music Marketing. We’ll be talking about Vine, Snapchat, and all [...]
Tweet Good news! The New Rockstar Philosophy is going on tour and we will be doing a book signing, reading and discussion at McNally Robinson in the Rock and Roll mecca of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Wooo. Winnipeg has been a powerhouse of Music for years creating some of Canada’s, and the world’s, most beloved acts. [...]
Tweet Sidewinder.fm creator, Hypebot editor, and New Rockstar Philosophy endorser Kyle Bylin has done it again. He’s completely wowed me with his ability to put together a cutting edge resource for forward thinking musicians. Divergent Streams is a new ebook that Kyle has put together bringing a number of music industry thinkers on board. In Kyle’s words: [...]
Tweet Being in a musical project isn’t easy because your music relationships takes 2 types of momentum. Not only do you have to navigate the personal stuff (internal momentum) but you also have to display, produce, release stuff to your fans (external momentum). You have to have both to grow and thrive. Without external momentum [...]
Tweet The New Rockstar Philosophy tour continues. This time we’re in our hometown of Saskatoon, Canada at MoSoConf2013. We’re happy to not only be a part of a speaking session for attendees but we’re also part of an exciting panel talking about Emerging Practices in Music Marketing. We’ll be talking about Vine, Snapchat, and all [...]
Tweet Good news! The New Rockstar Philosophy is going on tour and we will be doing a book signing, reading and discussion at McNally Robinson in the Rock and Roll mecca of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Wooo. Winnipeg has been a powerhouse of Music for years creating some of Canada’s, and the world’s, most beloved acts. [...]
Tweet Sidewinder.fm creator, Hypebot editor, and New Rockstar Philosophy endorser Kyle Bylin has done it again. He’s completely wowed me with his ability to put together a cutting edge resource for forward thinking musicians. Divergent Streams is a new ebook that Kyle has put together bringing a number of music industry thinkers on board. In Kyle’s words: [...]
Tweet Being in a musical project isn’t easy because your music relationships takes 2 types of momentum. Not only do you have to navigate the personal stuff (internal momentum) but you also have to display, produce, release stuff to your fans (external momentum). You have to have both to grow and thrive. Without external momentum [...]
Tweet How many musical ideas are you sitting on? Hard drives, notebooks, napkins, journals, voice memos, Garageband sessions, all filled with starts, riffs, ideas, maybe even more, but all of sits unfinished. Why is that? I find that after the initial inspiration of the idea in that moment, going back and crafting of the final [...]
Tweet YES. Yes. Yeeesssss. You should be making Lyric videos. Why? Because PEOPLE LOVE LYRICS. After searching the actual song, fans will search for your lyrics. People love lyrics. They want to sing a long. Make their lives easy. Make lyric videos. HOW? Do you have a Mac? Then you probably have enough power to [...]
Tweet Patti Smith is a legend. A poet, musician, author, and constant culture creator, Patti Smith has been blowing minds (or not) since the 1970s and knows a thing or two about being an artist. Some choice quotes: “Be concerned about doing GOOD WORK” “Build a good name and your name will be it’s own [...]
Tweet Vine is here, and although it’s not perfect, it’s probably the biggest thing to happen to social media since Instagram. We called it last time, saying that Instagram was going to be huge so trust us and just go download Vine app for your phone. SO WHAT IS IT? Vine is the best way to [...]
Tweet Modest Mouse is a band that you probably already love. The Lonesome Crowded West is an album you probably already love. But if you’re wondering how a band goes about taking over America in the late 90′s then this documentary will teach you the ways. WATCH IT! Music Consciousness Voyno
Tweet We did it. The New Rockstar Philosophy successfully crowdfunded over $10,000 to cover costs associated with printing the book. But what a long and winding road those 31 days were. We rushed some things, forgot some things, and pushed very hard, and had a huge learning experience. One of the main things that we learned (again) [...]
