by Cendrine Marrouat
The other day, while browsing Facebook, I chanced upon an update that really bothered me. Someone mentioned that they felt guilty for selling their creations at their current prices. That person was considering lowering them enough to make their products affordable to as many customers as possible.
Why is that particular update bothering me? Not because the person is feeling concerned about...
I have always felt very strongly that an artist or band should have a web site and lately have been very impressed by the WordPress platform. So many bands will just point their domain to MySpace, Purevolume or ReverbNation and this is just not good enough as you want to build YOUR brand, not help some other company build theirs. Sure, use these sites and the tools they provide, but ALWAYS direct your fans to your...
Bob Baker’s updated manifesto on how the popular show is creating widespread misconceptions about what it takes to succeed as a musical artist today.
It’s one of the most popular TV shows of recent years, drawing tens of millions of viewers every week. Even I admit, American Idol is fun to watch. The show provides all the elements of good pop culture entertainment: passion, emotion, the thrill of...
by Jeremy Rwakaara
To most musicians, the enduring image of an artist manager is a caricature of a heavy-set, unkempt slob of a man, stuffed into a 2-sizes-too-small, off-the-rack department store suit, chomping on a cheap smelly cigar while sliding a greasy hand unceremoniously into the back pocket of a starving artist. Surely, somewhere in the vast landscape of the music universe, such malice exists. The vast...
