1. Blogging
In May of this last year, I quit my day job at a record label. To stay up to speed on what was happening in the industry, I quickly subscribed to several blogs. Soon after that, I started my own. It wasn’t long…
This article is also available in Spanish….
Cover songs have an interesting place in the musician lexicon. The term cover song originated in the early part of the recording era, when record labels’ distribution was often limited regionally. When a song grew in popularity
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Monday
Recording, Releasing, and Performing Cover Songs… – we’re featuring very helpful article that Cameron wrote
Ok, enough talk about making money as a musician – let’s talk about not making money with your music.
My grandfather played organ, accordion and clarinet for most of his life. From the time he retired until just a few years before he passed away,…
The AFM Local 802, the Arts Alliance and Cornell University produced a study in 2007 that measured the economic impact of the arts industry on New York State. In New York City alone, they found that the arts produce 160,300 jobs, $8.2 billion in wages…
Continue Reading →There’s a petition… circulating the internet, Facebook, and now Obama’s website Change.gov (inaccurate) that is asking for 1% of the anticipated $600+ billion stimulus package to be spent on the arts.
The petition cites the 1930′s Federal Art Project, which was funded by the WPA
December 22, 2008
Between the closings of Xanadu on September 28th and Hairspray on January 18th, 150 musician jobs will be liquidated from the New York City theater industry. This does not include the musician positions in the limited-run or seasonal productions of Christmas Spectacular…
Edit (12/25/2008): Links added.
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Monday
Broadway show closings liquidate …
So. I’m going to assume that you’ve been trying to eke out a living doing what you love to do, while holding on to the last vestiges of your confidence and pride. You have come to a point where anything, ANYTHING, will be helpful to…
Continue Reading →There’s got to be a lot of pressure on Derek Sivers. This is the guy, afterall, that came up with a really good idea at a time when the music industry seemed to be all out of them. Sivers founded CD Baby… in 1997 as
Continue Reading →So here I am, just about five months into my contract, and doing my first transatlantic crossing. They have warned us to make sure we have ways to kill time because of the amount of boredom on sea days. For most departments, sea days are…
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