Selton is one of my favorite Brazillian-Italian bands. We met and partied with these dudes on our International Book Tour stop in Milan, Italy. Wow. It’s already been almost two months we were there. Time flies. Anyways… Daniel, Selton’s drummer and a key player in helping us get published in Italy, took some time to answer [...]
If you haven’t heard, The New Rockstar Philosophy was published in Italy a few weeks ago. Yes, it was translated and put into a real physical book. We were stoked that people across the ocean dug our stuff enough to want to put it out. We didn’t know what else to expect, but I got [...]
YouTube is the Google of Video. You can search almost anything on YouTube and get lost for hours or days. With an abundance of videos on the same topic, how does one video stand out above the rest? Like Google, the keywords and titles you use help people discover your YouTube video. Cleverly worded titles [...]
I’ve started to notice a trend. Radio doesn’t like the internet. Actually, most of the music industry doesn’t like the internet. The traditional music industry can’t do much about file sharing, loss of their brand, the flattening of recording technology, etc, but they can do something about radio and traditional media. They can use their power in both [...]
I recently had a conversation with music supervisor and author, Sarah Gavigan. You may remember her from a previous interview we did with her regarding music licensing. She told me she was hosting an in-depth online workshop to help artists really understand the music licensing world. This is a world where there’s confusion and misunderstanding, [...]
If you’re a Radiohead fan, you already have “The King of Limbs.” Only announced a week before its release, it caused an immediate surge of interest amongst the Radiohead tribe. No hype build-up and no getting excited and waiting months while trying to find a leak. It was immediate and urgent. As an independent artist, [...]
Right after I finished writing this article about the death of indie, the flat world, the promise that a great song can get you to the top, and indie being an irrelevant term, I see this: Who Is Arcade Fire? Lol. More here. While I disagree with WikedKity, I can understand that because Arcade Fire [...]
Indie music, as a genre, and as an ethos, has been atrophying away in the last decade. You know as well as I do, that the rise of digital music has made it easier and easier for anyone with an internet connection to access all types of music. The Arcade Fire, have reaped the rewards [...]
On Sunday The Huffington Post was purchased by AOL for around $300 million dollars in a move for a bigger market share of the web for both parties. AOL is looking to become a serious web media player and has been on a content acquisition spree recently acquiring the technology blog network TechCrunch, Thing Labs, Brizzly and most [...]
Are Musicians Fighting Back? #venue vs #musicians
In the past few days I’ve seen a few pieces of content floating around on my social networks that both point to the same thing; Music is important, and musicians should be compensated accordingly. It appears that the free economy is no longer cutting it for some. This is from musician Dave Goldberg as an [...]