If you’re in New York, February 1st to 4th, I suggest you check out the new multi-media festival Pitchfork is putting on: Forms celebrates and explores the interconnected and growing worlds of independent music, art, and gaming. With a goal of showcasing the creativity, independence, innovation, and interactivity happening in the growing platforms of music, [...]
It seems that every year CD Baby is around they make their products better and better. Their latest announcement about their one stop music shop is no different. With this little Facebook plugin you can do so many things that will make you money: It’s an easily added as a tab on your Facebook Band Page. You don’t [...]
We’re fans of Big Cartel. They’ve been consistent and good at what they do for a long while now. There are definitely many other stores and apps that you could use with your band’s Fbook profile, but with BigCartel it appears so simple. Note: The video doesn’t want to embed properly so click here for the video. [...]
More and more artists are joining this epic struggle. Radiohead missed their chance, but the reclusive indie superstar Jeff Magnum took to the streets yesterday: Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum surprised the crowd gathered at the Occupy Wall Street protest tonight with a solo acoustic set. He lead singalongs to “Holland, 1945″, “Ghost”, “Song Against [...]
Remember when artists made political statements? Or went even further and wrote political songs? Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio. -CSNY Occupy Wallstreet is happening. This is a time of social change. Artists are KEY to social change. Music is hyper important [...]
The new Facebook Timeline is coming, or already here, depending on who you know. This will obviously cause much outcry from friends, but the new Facebook could be a good thing for bands. Mashable took a look at some of the changes: ..Timeline may have a similar effect on brands as well. ..will let companies [...]
The 99 Percent is a new favorite site of mine. Every day my RSS is filled with a new and inspirational articles. I’d definitely suggest a read if you’re into non-cheesy stuff about leadership, goals, knowledge and such. The site recently put up a list of 25 Insights on Becoming A Better Writers and the advice is [...]
Wilco is a band I hope you listen to. They not only have solid songs, but their live show is the best thing I’ve seen in the last 5 years, and I go to a lot of concerts. So whenever Wilco talks talks I listen. The Los Angeles Times featured a tasty little nugget of [...]
Say you’ve written a great song. The lyrics are spectacular, the melody is beautiful, and the chords are divine. People have started asking you how to play it. You could put some time into making a YouTube video (which may never happen), or try something like the band Dinosawh did: Put the chords of the the [...]
Slow down, Molasses are such an impressive band. They’ve got amazing music + live show, are all good friends, and managed to keep their band growing in popularity every year despite many members having other big commitments. This 7 piece have recently completed their first tour of the UK with a massive gig at the End Of The Road [...]
