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The Do It Yourself Artist – Part II

For the Do It Yourself artist, what is one of the most important determinations of their success? Well, like all entrepreneurial endeavors, success largely depends on keeping expenses low. Very low. As in, each band member lives very frugally. And herein lies the trouble. The superstar artist of the past lived extravagantly off money from [...]

Twitter’s Limitation for Artists?

Are there any negatives to using Twitter? All we read and hear about these days is the Twitter phenomenon. And other than the naysayers who think Twitter is the ultimate in narcissistic adoration, does anyone who uses it not like it? I think one clue into this is the low level of people who Twit [...]

Album vs. Tracks

There is a great article in the NY Times today about Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Most of the article deals with Trent himself, and the fact that he is really on the cutting edge of musical distribution. One interesting thing about the article was Reznor discussing the iPod. On one hand, he thinks [...]