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Funding Your Recording

Two days ago, I wrote about SellaBand, a stock exchange type service that helps fund recording projects for musicians. In that post, I suggested that anyone could do this if they tried hard enough. It just got easier… Introducing Fundable, a business designed to...

Music Publishing Merger

Two huge music publishing companies merged today to become ONE huge publishing company. I’m posting about this only because if you’re going to make a living in the industry, you should know what’s going on, and this article has a lot of information...

A Musical Stock Exchange

I’ve struggled and struggled with what to say to begin this post, so I’m offering the following choices. Please pick one for yourself: – If you had any doubt that the age of the big music company was over, read on. – Tired of being a starving...

Why I Read Kiyosaki

Check out this recent post from Robert Kiyosaki for a taste of why I try to read everything he writes. Ever since I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I’ve been a huge fan of this multimillionaire’s writing. I find him easy to understand because he approches...

Want a recording contract?

Read this in an article the other day: Two rock bands, the Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick, have filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG alleging that they are shortchanged when Sony divvies up royalties from digital downloads. Filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in...

More on Pricing

One of my most dreaded questions during my career as a professional musician was “how much do you charge for…?” I hated it for two main reasons: first, I hated to have to draw attention away from the music and onto money. Second, I always felt like...