Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
“…we’re – unbelievably – stuck in the position of arguing with our own label about the merits of having our videos be easily shared. It’s like the world has gone backwards.”
Radiohead is releasing their new album In Rainbows next week for any price you want to pay! But they’re not the first.
Merlin Mann just pointed to a New York Times Magazine article about Jonathan Coulton and The Hold Steady. These artists are thriving in the post-CD music world through intimate virtual relationships with their fans.
Music promotion through blogs and social networks like MySpace is getting more and more powerful. Managing this vast world of Web 2.0 [...]
TechCrunch reports that SellABand just might be working.
But a few months later, wow. 2700 bands from all over the world have signed up, and four have already reached the $50,000 mark and have recorded albums (Nemesea, Cubworld, Second Person and Clemence, and more are on the way. Mandyleigh, one of our readers, is currently no. [...]
Learn how to promote and market your music, self-publish your music, and make your music business grow in 2007 with these tips from my top music business articles of 2006.
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WikiMusicGuide
How to Market Your Music with MySpace
Your Music Will Sell In Japan?
Tunecore Puts Your Music Into iTunes And [...]
Musiclocated is a free service that uses Google Maps to help you find musicians in your area. You can submit your URL and you can also link to a YouTube video of your performance or mp3 of your music. Check it out!
This should go without saying, but …
If you aren’t promoting your music on MySpace yet, you need to start — fast!
If you already have a MySpace artist profile, you need to make the best use of it so you get the maximum exposure possible.
Find out what successful indie acts like Relient K, My Chemical Romance, [...]
Amazing Tunes is a musician’s community that allows you to share your music with the rest of the world. The idea is to create a space to showcase your music and gain much needed feedback.
Rockers Work a Web-Savvy Crowd, by Robert La Franco from Wired magazine.
Japanese alt-metal group Dir en grey’s first U.S. tour finds the band playing packed halls and moving mountains of merch, all thanks to the promo power of anime conventions, video games and MySpace.
If you aren’t promoting your music on MySpace yet, you need to [...]
From Amie Street: Awesome New Music Model:
A lot has happened in the music space recently that suggests a steady progression towards the sale of DRM-free music by the big labels. In my opinion this progression/evolution is inevitable, and will be followed by a reduction in pricing towards zero – services will be able to sell [...]
Find out more: Music Business Radio – Weekly Podcast Now Available
Current show features Dez Dickerson. Dez is probably best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for Prince and the Revolution, but has worked with a number of artists including Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, and Vanity 6.
You will learn a lot about [...]
From Wired: Rock’s First Web Success?
The U.K. indie quartet Arctic Monkeys has built a loyal following thanks to internet word-of-mouth, P2P and grass-roots promotion. Here’s how giving away songs for free can help you sell hundreds of thousands of records. In Monkey Bites.
They encouraged file sharing. They wrote good songs. They broke records.
The music industry [...]
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). So instead of having to go visit each and every website to read the latest content, you can use [...]
Arctic Monkeys score second UK chart number one:
LONDON (Reuters) – Sheffield rockers the Arctic Monkeys have scored their second British number one with “When The Sun Goes Down” on its first week on release, the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday.
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about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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