In case you missed any of our top shelf articles this week, here’s the top 5 that you need to read:

How To Take Your Local Band National: After catching an article about a restaurant going from the local to the national level, I noted how bands can use these ideas. Pretty self explanatory; Keep it fresh, keep it good, keep it engaged and keep it your own flavor. More here.

Forget Major Labels, You Want To Be Signed With Major Web Media: Earlier this week this AOL bought The Huffington Post. It was big news. That sparked the idea of Major Labels vs Major Web Media. Essentially, if your audience is on the internet, and Major Web Media companies like AOL/HuffPo know how to do web, then wouldn’t it be better to get “signed” by them vs a Major Labels?

Attachment, Routine, and Selling Music: a thought provoking piece designed to change your brain. Ready?

Compare Music Services Across the Web: This is exactly the kind of learning that my brain likes. Visualizations. Big, colorful, and accurate. Ever wonder how big of the digital music pie Pandora owns? Or how about Last.fm? Check it all out here.

Music Consciousness
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