Born Into This isn’t so much a music documentary as more of a poet documentary. It tells the life of Charles Bukowski, who’s one of my favourite poets. The guy is so real, and speaks to me on such a level that I felt I had to share this doc with you. Tom Waits, Sean Penn, [...]
Our friends over at Next Big Sound have just released a ton of information on the state of online music in 2011. Unsurprisingly it’s doing very well. Numbers are up everywhere (even MySpace) and Next Big Sound has a purdy looking visualization to explain it all right here. Some quick facts: SoundCloud song plays had an amazing 231% increase/growth. And [...]
The thought of touring Europe has crossed the minds of most musicans across the pond… any pond. The continent has a high population density, which means less travel time between gigs (read: money spent), and most countries have a large appetite for music (read: money made), and many genres do well (read: your audience). So if [...]
The other day I wrote about how to find music blogs that will talk about you. Well finding those blogs is only one step of the process. The other part is actually talking to them. Luckily for you when Hoover and I were on our International Book Tour we stopped in Chicago and had a [...]
Never has the hype come so quickly as it has for Lana Del Rey. Within a few months she went from releasing one video on YouTube to playing the last night’s Saturday Night Live. And now the inevitable backlash will happen… Video Games: Blue Jeans: Music Consciousness Voyno
Every other day one of my musician friends asks me how they can find appropriate blogs for their music. I tell them that finding music blogs isn’t that difficult, this is how I do it: Go to a music blog aggregator like Hypem.com or Elbo.ws In the search field of the main page, enter a [...]
Here at The New Rockstar Philosophy we’re big fans of collectives. A number of artist get together, create a project (album, video, etc) go promote it as a team, and get more press and plays together than they would on their own. Broken Social Scene is a great Canadian collective who’ve done it well. But [...]
The end is nigh for Grooveshark. News comes today that all of the Majors are now suing the streaming music service. …After getting hit with lawsuits from Universal Music, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment, EMI — the only company with whom Grooveshark actually had a licensing deal — has now filed suit against [...]
The internet is so old now that some of the newest viral things are actually a few years old. Like the image above, How To Feel Miserable As An Artist. The image comes from Keri Smith, an artist, author, blogger, creative type, and inspirational person. It was written over 2 years ago, but as I [...]
The Life of an Italian Indie Band: Selton
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 [...]