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  • Internal Momentum vs External Momentum

    Internal Momentum vs External Momentum

    http://youtu.be/0QMcfhg4fPk

    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 [...]

  • F**k it. Ship it. For Artists

    F**k it. Ship it. For Artists

    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 [...]

  • Should Your Band Be Making Lyric Videos?

    Should Your Band Be Making Lyric Videos?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KReoTOZK9W8

    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 [...]

  • Instant Inspiration: Patti Smith’s Advice To Creatives #watch

    Instant Inspiration: Patti Smith’s Advice To Creatives #watch

    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 [...]

Internal Momentum vs External Momentum

Internal Momentum vs External Momentum

[ 0 ] May 23, 2013
http://youtu.be/0QMcfhg4fPk

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 [...]

F**k it. Ship it. For Artists

F**k it. Ship it. For Artists

[ 0 ] May 13, 2013

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 [...]

Should Your Band Be Making Lyric Videos?

Should Your Band Be Making Lyric Videos?

[ 0 ] May 3, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KReoTOZK9W8

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 [...]

Instant Inspiration: Patti Smith’s Advice To Creatives #watch

Instant Inspiration: Patti Smith’s Advice To Creatives #watch

[ 0 ] April 30, 2013

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 [...]

3 Reasons Artists Should Be Using Vine

3 Reasons Artists Should Be Using Vine

[ 0 ] April 29, 2013

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 [...]

Friday Night Music Doc: Modest Mouse Shows You How To Take Over America

Friday Night Music Doc: Modest Mouse Shows You How To Take Over America

[ 0 ] April 26, 2013

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

Crowdfunding Requires A Little Help From Your Friends

Crowdfunding Requires A Little Help From Your Friends

[ 2 ] April 16, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfFBCyMGyg

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) [...]

10 Lessons I Re-Learned At SXSW 2013

10 Lessons I Re-Learned At SXSW 2013

[ 0 ] March 25, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efv0Y5Fs7m4

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 [...]

New Rockstar Philosophy Crowdfunding Campaign

New Rockstar Philosophy Crowdfunding Campaign

[ 2 ] March 10, 2013
http://youtu.be/dcfFBCyMGyg

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. [...]

6 Quick and Sweet Updates About The New Rockstar Philosophy

6 Quick and Sweet Updates About The New Rockstar Philosophy

[ 0 ] March 5, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXgzuYVbd4

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 [...]