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Music Middle Class

New music website startups are making things easier for new musical groups. Last.fm just announced that they will begin paying streaming royalties to artists who don’t have record deal or an affiliation with a collecting society. So as a new artist, you can place your music up on Last.fm. If it gets played, you get [...]

Who’s Behind the Music?

Who wrote that song? If a particular song moves me, gives me chills, or brings out a tear, I want to know who wrote it. But not just that, I want to know everything there possibly is to know about the artist. Are they human or divine? What did they go through in their life [...]

Artists as Entrepreneurs

New bands and artists have in one way or another always had to act as entrepreneurs to get their music heard. I think this is the case more than ever now as bands must first concentrate on the artistic side, then the packaging side (cd or digital), followed by distribution (which websites), and the best [...]