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 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) [...]
Tweet March has been a busy one for us at The New Rockstar Philosophy. Not only have we been running our crowdfunding campaign, but we’ve been down in Austin for SXSW and in Toronto for CMW. You can read some CMW highlights in Hypebot in the near future but I thought I’d share some of [...]
Tweet Help Raise $10,000 to cover costs of The New Rockstar Philosophy Book! The New Rockstar Philosophy has been around for 5 years and we’ve been giving away our game-changing content to all readers who were embracing the digital evolution. In that time we’ve managed to: Release our ebook in 2010 to thousands of downloads. [...]
Tweet Greetings folks, Although the blog has been a little more quiet recently, we’ve actually have been working extra hard as of late. SOOOOOOO many things have been happening. Here’s a brief update: PHYSICAL BOOK – IN ENGLISH – AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO BUY Yep, caps is necessary b/c this is the big one friends. If you’re [...]
