Paul McCartney is 69 years old. Paul McCartney is touring Europe and plays for approx 3 hours every night with a full band. Paul McCartney is 69 years old!! We were fortunate enough to catch Macca’s show in Milan last week as part of our International Book Tour (we will be showing you more from [...]
Did you know Feist has a new album? Yeah, it came out in September. I bet you haven’t heard nary a peep. Remember Feist’s last album? 1234, the Apple commercial, sold out tours, Colbert Christmas special, all that noise? I will bet you a pint o’ beer that this album will get nowhere near the [...]
Butch Walker has an enviable music career. Lead singer and songwriter for the one hit wonders Marvelous 3, he’s now moved on to become a songwriter for some huge artists (Katy Perry, Weezer, Pink). Recently Harper Collins published a memoir of his life in the music business. I haven’t got my hands on a copy yet, but it’s probably filled with truth [...]
You’ve probably heard that comedy is all about delivery. Well timed punch lines delivered in a certain style of expression are what make comedians stand out and be funny. The same is true of music. You hear a singer sing and you can tell how much he/she feels what’s she’s singing. Is she just trying [...]
Band names can be a tricky thing to decide on. They will likely be the introduction to your band for many new fans. That means your band name has to convey something about your band. It could be that you’re a heavy ass band (Metallica), that you’re a political powerhouse (Rage Against The Machine), or [...]
RollingStone posted an article today about Nevermind. Jon Stewart spoke with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Butch Vig about the sessions. It’s worth a read in its entirety, but the highlighted text below is a tasty bit of wisdom on the band’s recording process: ….As the band revealed, the recording of the album was similarly [...]
As an artist you want to get your music out there even if you’re against marketing/capitalism. You want people to hear and dig what you do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this here blog. Do you stop and think about how you discover new music and why you choose to check out something new? 1. [...]
Lordy are we still arguing over this? It appears that there are still a few people who are choked about the whole The Sheepdogs win the cover of the Rolling Stone thing. Alex Thomson, a writer for The Huffington Post, aired his grievances about how the band ONLY has 12,000 or so Facebook fans even after [...]
Over at Music Think Tank, Apryl Peredo wrote up a tasty little article on the hows and why’s people do/don’t get signed to labels these days. For many people it will be a round of “obviously” but there are still some folks who believe/dream of getting signed after putting out one music video. Stranger things have happened, [...]
The Importance of Your YouTube Video’s Still Frame
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 [...]