Share I was reading a Rolling Stone interview with Chris Martin as Coldplay were preparing to release “Vida La Vida or Death and All His Friends.” It was candid and informal which I really dig about some of the Rolling Stone interviews. Anyways, there was a point where Martin said Coldplay practiced everyday for 2 [...]
Share The online music world changes about every 3 months. Some players may drop out, like MySpace (too soon?), some change shape like WaTunes and newcomers like NextBigSound appear. We’ll try to keep this post up to date, but below are resources that have been tried and tested. Let us know if you find something [...]
Share In a strange turn of events New Rockstar Philosophy is sending me to Tokyo. We’re planning on interviewing some artists to get the skinny on the real Tokyo music scene (which is humongous) and what it means to be a real touring band in Japan. So if you’ve got the perfect Japanese band, who [...]
Share Information is Beautiful reminded me once again of how streaming is not going to be THE ANSWER for musicians. If you need 4.5 million streams to make minimum wage with Spotify then it obviously won’t pay the bills. Lady Gaga will make some scratch, but the average hard working band will not be seeing [...]
Share After watching the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers documentary/biography, Running Down a Dream, I found myself digging through a lot of his material…on YouTube. It’s like rediscovering an artist you didn’t pay that much attention to when you were a younger. I always knew the guy was a great songwriter, but never really appreciated [...]
Share Recently there has been some net chatter about Copyrighting your songs. My friends have asked me, “What’s the deal?” So here’s my take: Copyrighting is a different beast then it used to be. The internet has changed the way we look at copyright and the idea of ownership. Arguably when you digitize something (music, [...]
Share We all know there’s a new social networking site popping up every 5 minutes. Some last a couple minutes, some become Facebook. What if you could create your own social networking site, revolving around your music?? That’s exactly what NING.com is all about. They actually let you build your own online community with [...]
Share That Ocarina app for the iPhone is taking off. People are video blogging their renditions of songs, talking about how great the app is, and so on. The developers made something truly unique. You have to actually blow into your iphone to make a sound. It’s worth talking about. It’s worth spreading the word. [...]
Share I came across this pretty cool vid for a documentary on the punk rock scene in the 1990′s. I still feel weird saying that, because it seem like yesterday. Anyways, the vid takes a look at the Offspring specifically, but if you were into music around that time, you knew that Green Day’s Dookie, [...]
