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Musicolio – Connecting Musicians

I just came across a site called Musicolio.  Musicolio calls themselves the Music Network.  If you are a musician, you can submit your information to this website to be searched by artists or clients who may require your service.  Here is more straight from their website: Musicolio is an interactive, online community created, and monitored, [...]

The Do It Yourself Artist

Are artists really making it by doing things themselves? Is time spent online building a fan base taking away from creating music? Will this lead to a new music industry to support the online presence of artists while they do what they do best – create music? Read more here from Digital Music Review: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/011910silverman [...]

Social Networking Trends for Musicians

Do you know where your fans are? What about the social networking trends? Where are people spending time online? Nielsen just released some numbers for the top Social Networking sites. The results are pretty impressive and tell a lot about current trends: Facebook drew 250 million minutes on their site in April ’09 (up 699%). [...]

Korn Head

I just finished Brian ‘Head’ Welch’s recent book “Save Me From Myself.” ‘Head’ is the former lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Korn and this book is about “How I found God, quit Korn, kicked drugs, and lived to tell my story.” I wanted to comment a bit on the book and about my [...]

Paying for Music

Should we pay for music? I was just reading a report about a music survey conducted in Britain. Seems as though people are willing to pay for music if the download site is known for consistent quality and if the user can own the song at the end of the day. The Brits were not [...]

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 [...]

Artist Inspiration

As I talk to different musical artists and read biographies of musicians and other artists, I have noticed a theme. The more the artist gets in the way in terms of trying to further their ego, the worse their art becomes. Or to put it in a positive light, the more the artist opens him/herself [...]