How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions … [Read more...]
Meditating On The Musicians We Lost In 2008
The New York Times posted a beautiful sound collage featuring some of the musicians we lost in 2008. Just added to the list, Freddie Hubbard. … [Read more...]
From The Notebook 12-7-08
Chris Brogan's article, How Alltop Powers Bloggers, has a tip to get more traffic by getting added to an Alltop topic. Go here to sign up. Maybe if enough of us submit the topic, independentmusicians, it will be recognized. Here's a pair of … [Read more...]
Weekend Links For Your Pleasure
I've been extremely light on the blogging front lately, but I have big plans to breathe new life into this site. I'll be shifting gears as I reexamine my time, attention, and creative work. In the mean time, here's a few links I've been meaning to … [Read more...]
A Big Day For DIY Artists
This announcement comes from Last.fm today: This is a big day for DIY artists as it marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue direct from a free streaming music platform. We're … [Read more...]
R.I.P. Max Roach
Max Roach, one of the original bebop drummers, died early this morning. He played with all the greatest jazz musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. I've personally spent many, many … [Read more...]
Searching For Other Musicians To Play With? Try This…
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! … [Read more...]
Musicians With Day Jobs: Get More Energy…
Lori has some useful tips if "you're perpetually trying to squeeze more hours into the day to get more time to work on your music or other projects." Check her out: Useful energizer software for musicians who still have time-consuming day jobs … [Read more...]
Hack Your Musical Mind
From Mind Hacks: All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it. Brain scanning of musicians has shown that they have larger cortical representations of the body parts they use to play their … [Read more...]
The Day the Music Died
This is an amazing collection of photographs put into a slide show with audio explaining the meaning of music to New Orleans natives and how musicians are still trying to keep the city's cultural heart beating. It's such a shame what happened to our … [Read more...]