Image by Sarath G. on Pexels.com In 2017, I published a blog post asking, "Is indie radio still relevant?" It was a terrible post. I was preparing to interview D. Grant Smith, who ran the indie radio show Appetizer Radio and wrote “The DIY [...]
Capturing Ownership, Splits, & Metadata Before Song Royalties Can Go Uncollected George Macias of Lumoza George Macias is co-founder of Lumoza, a free music rights-registration platform for independent artists, where you upload your song, and it’s registered where it needs to be so you [...]
Enough vs. More – Financial Freedom for Independent Artists Daniel Scott, Spotlight Advisory Group Dan Scott lives at the intersection of creativity, law, and financial freedom. Equal parts artist, strategist, and advisor, he has spent his career helping creatives build lives where their work, [...]
Cody DeLong's Fan Data Playbook – VIP, Pre-Sales, and Direct-to-Fan Revenue Most independent artists walk away from a live show with whatever the ticket sales and merch table produced. Cody DeLong has spent more than a decade helping artists find what's left on the table, and [...]
Weariness Isn't Failure — Lynz Crichton on Walking Away vs. Staying In Lynz Crichton makes her fourth appearance on The Unstarving Musician. She's a singer-songwriter based in Nottingham, England, and the creator of Music Marketing Method, a program that helps independent musicians build audience, monetize their [...]
Learning Music Theory as an Adult Musician — A Practical Framework Photo by Sebastian Rivera on Pexels.com Most music theory education is built for nineteen-year-olds in a conservatory. If you're a working musician who's been gigging for years on ear, feel, and a handful [...]
