Crap! I was looking forward to upgrading my phone and not my MP3 player. Hypebot recently reported that ComScore's Digital Year in Review ranked music listening as last in a list of top ten popular mobile activity activities. Maybe that's because a mobile phone is still a phone and now [...]
Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of In Rainbows Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of "In Rainbows," and its online pay-what-you-want model. Their forthcoming album will, not surprisingly, sell by a more traditional model--the price is this. Even so, the band is still [...]
Back in 2011, Wilco announced that they were parting ways with their record label, deciding to release under their own label. I originally sited a post by Sarah Szczerbiak post on Culturemob.com, but have since found the news well covered by Billboard. The story had caught my attention because Wilco [...]
A buddy of mine asked me where he could find a good percussion instructor. Here's a short list of places that came to mind. I searched Craigslist and found a couple of ads, including one for Percussionplayer.com. This one looks promising. Most everything I found in a quick search is [...]
It's old school, but print collateral still has a place for promoting your band. Rule number one - create decent quality collateral! The primary pieces used by my bands are in-venue posters (11x17 with color) and postcards for use as give-aways and in-venue promotion. Print collateral has obvious application for [...]
Say what you will about the Grammys, but it's not a bad night when hard hitter Dave Grohl and TCV are recognized in the category of Best Hard Rock Performance, taking home an award for the track New Fang from their self titled and perhaps only album. I may be [...]
