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Category: Tips for IndiesSeptember 30, 2011If I Had Stew - The major label responseWell, I'm gobsmacked! No wonder the major labels are in so much trouble. A complete contrast in the response from two publishers in my pursuit of a simple clearance to record my parody.First things first - credit where it's due.... MoreSeptember 19, 2011If I had Stew - Update 2Still no word from Sony, despite me following their advice. However, I did get a response from tomas at Maratone on 14 Sept. He very kindly told me that I need to get in touch with Kobalt Music Publishing, who... MoreSeptember 3, 2011If I had stewI like to think I'm a pretty funny kinda guy with an ear for satire, so since I first heard Adam Lambert's "If I had you" I've known it would be dead easy to rip off. I've been playing with... MoreJuly 3, 2011Next chapterWell, I've been absent from this blog for far too long. What I've been doing, however, has (hopefully) set up the next chapter of my life, which will see a lot more action around here. At long last, the PhD... MoreJune 17, 2011Free is just one form of convenientLately I've read several articles providing "the artist's side of the story" as to why music "can't be free". These include: Mark Mulligan's Why Music Can't Just Be Free: The Artists' Side Of The Story, Rick Chazan's On Music Piracy,... MoreFebruary 1, 2011It's all about engagement ...This morning there are some great articles in various other publication that point to something I've been thinking about for a while now: building a career as an Indie is all about directly engaging with people who like what you... More Posted by DrHuge at 11:49 AM | Comments
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August 4, 2010Responding to a reviewerFound this review of my E-book. So happy that someone has engaged with the ideas!! Actually, I'm honoured that although Jillian disagrees with the central premise of Part 1, she still wants to read Parts 2 and 3. Working on... MoreAugust 2, 2010Review of Music Xray's S2O serviceI read about Music Xray's S2O service in a LinkedIn forum and thought "what a great idea" so I signed up and entered The Genre Benders' album into the system (free). The "matches" the S2O system produces are based on... MoreJuly 29, 2010The best New Music approach is holisticMike Masnick makes a lot of sense when he points out that big concerts are only a fraction of the live concerts staged,and in some ways they are more difficult to run profitably than smaller concerts. He's also right that... MoreJuly 28, 2010How the record industry got it so wrong (and how their mistakes point to your glorious musical future).OK, well the E-book is out. I have completed Part 1 with the assistance of the incredible art of Mr Darren Fisher. The blog version is here and free but a more convenient version can be downloaded for free... MoreJuly 20, 2010How NOT to impress music-business decision makersJust read this blog from my colleague Rick Goetz. Rick advises musos to do three things at music industry conferences: Find like-minded peers Make sure you and your product present well Have a plan He's spot on, but I'd take... MoreJune 6, 2010Never a truer word spoken ...Just read this rant from Street Carnage, which points out the brutal reality of playing in bands and advises people not to. Can't say I disagree, ironically. Life on the road can be boring, but it's also an opportunity to... MoreJune 3, 201016 Answers from an Entrepreneur and FreelancerJust read Seth Godin's latest. As always, brilliant in its insight and thought-provoking in its focus. He posed some questions that seemed highly pertinent to the space I'm about to enter, so I thought I'd answer them with respect to... MoreMay 18, 2010Breaking an act ...Just read this post from Mike McCready. I like the way Mike thinks about a bunch of things, but I think he's on slightly the wrong track with this one. To start with, the whole notion of "breaking" and act... MoreAugust 2, 2009Seth Godin on the value of social networkingThe lessons of Tila Teqila in 2 minutes … http://www.brandinfection.com/2009/08/01/seth-godin-on-social-networking/ Great stuff and so important for indie musos to understand. Seth's talking about business, and Indies need to understand that that's what they are if they want to make a... More Posted by Hughie at 11:04 AM | Comments
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July 17, 2009Reznor's latest advice ... another beautyTechdirt has another gem from Trent Reznor. Advice for indies on how to run their business. It's fairly general advice, but pretty good. Some of the comments provide interesting additional advice and so on. Rather than just report this, I... MoreDecember 11, 2008Hypebot's top Music 2.0 postsHypebot has posted a summary of their best Music 2.0 posts of 2008. It's got some really good stuff in it. Very important in years to come, I'm sure. Check it out, read their literature and get into the resources... MoreNovember 26, 2008"Debunking the Long Tail"?The Register published an article some time back about new research that claims to "debunk the Long Tail". It takes a critical mathematical approach mainly to the precise shape of the curve - is it a Pareto curve, as Chris... MoreSeptember 25, 2008What it means to do it the hard wayJohn Watson had a lot of gems at the Big Sound conference, but on the "big industry" panel he addressed the issue of getting signed and whether that meant anything in the new environment. He and the others gave several... MoreSeptember 23, 2008The most important ingredient for successOne of the most compelling, thoughtful and thought-provoking panellists at Big Sound 2008 was John Watson of John Watson Management. He's the guy who signed Silverchair, among others. John was the most aware and articulate person I've ever seen at... More Posted by Hughie at 10:05 AM | Comments
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September 20, 2008Where we come fromAt the "Managing your own release" panel at Big Sound 2008, Danny Rogers, manager of Gotye, Clare Bowditch, Litlte Red and Temper trap, among other things, was discussing how artists can build networks and find other people to help them... MoreSeptember 18, 2008Making a pitch to the punters ...At one of the final session of the Big Sound 2008 conference, entitled "Managing Your Own Release", Carlo Santone from Blue King Brown made a great point about the way entertainers should think about their interactions with the music-buying public.... MoreJune 24, 2008Musowiki turns 100Yesterday I put the 100th entry into Musowiki.net. There are now 114 entries. This is wonderful progress and I am so happy about it ... but there's a long way to go before it becomes a really useful resource. The... MoreMay 30, 2008My version of a Free Song StrategyI've not been an avid reader of Bruce Warila - but I like what I do read. Now Bruce has enunciated (almost) exactly my thinking on the best way to "give away" your music. This is a brilliant and very... MoreMay 28, 200810 Best Practices of Online Music PromotionJust found this list by Nancy Baym of 10 best practices for online promotion. Nancy is a professor at Kansas U and has been studying fans culture and fan behaviour for a while now. She has some great ideas and... MoreMay 27, 2008The power of radioAnyone who doubts the importance of radio airplay in establishing your value as a musical performer needs to take a long, hard look at the APRA awards. The nominees for Song of the Year are all big radio hits, as... MoreMay 25, 2008Meeting the millenialsInteresting report released by Music Tank last week called "Meet the Millennials". It's written, at least in part, by Nettwerk's Terry McBride, so it's certainly worth reading. Now, I'm always highly skeptical of anything that makes broad claims about the... MoreMay 23, 2008The best advice you don't have to buyDerek Sivers has just released his manifesto for being heard. Derek has long agreed with the view, which I believe was first expressed by Cory Doctorrow, that the enemy of the unsigned artists is not piracy, but obscurity. This is... MoreMay 12, 2008Myspace has very little to do with it ...The other day I read this interview with Ingrid Michaelson, which is billed as revealing how MySpace can help musos "make it" on the same scale as Ingrid has. Since I found the article via Myspace For Musicians, I think... MoreJanuary 26, 2008How to form and run a rock bandJust found this resource via an e-mail list. It looks like a pretty cool heads-up for the muso who wants to get started in playing in a band, or whose wondering (as we all do) what went wrong in their... MoreJanuary 9, 2008The "musical middle class"Over at Hypebot there's been an interesting discussion going on about the idea of a musical middle class. This is the idea that more acts, bands and/or artists are now making a living from music than ever before. They may... MoreJanuary 8, 2008Another great summarySeth Godin has been raking over the entrails of the music industry figures from 2007 and has come up with some lessons from recent experience. I'm not convinced about some of them or the order in which they're placed ...... MoreJanuary 7, 2008A great summary ...Just found this post by Ian Rogers about how new technologies have changed the music industry. It's a fantastic summary of the impact (or not) of the new environment. Complete, thoughtful, insightful. You have to read it and understand it... MoreDecember 28, 2007Being not boringI was at the Art of Record Production conference at QUT last week and listened to Hank Shocklee talk about the creation of Public Enemy. It's an amazing story and Hank was very open, frank and forthcoming about the music... MoreDecember 21, 2007Coke or Moonshine?David Byrne, formerly of Talking of Talking Heads, had a great piece published in Wired, in which he examines the future of the music industry and maps out some strategies for independent artists. Packed with real data and analysis, it... More Posted by Hughie at 8:59 AM | Comments
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November 6, 2007Giving music away or making it available??An interesting point came up on the MusicThoughts list yesterday and it peaked my interest - especially in light of an article from Andrew Dubber that I'd read earlier. Here's the original meme and my response: >> When you give... MoreOctober 28, 2007Music files may be abundant, but listener value and attention are still scarce.Just came across this Techdirt article, in which Mike discusses the economics of abundance and therefore the virtues for an artist/band of making music available for free. This is an example of slightly muddled and mistaken thinking but before I... MoreOctober 25, 20077 Stupid MistakesI found this yesterday. The e-book is not bad and you can get it free if you tell four other people about it. It's called "The 7 Stupid Mistakes People Make Trying To Get Into The Music Business" and it... MoreOctober 23, 2007Song contestsCoupla years ago a friend of mine won a major songwriting contest in Australia but, much to his frustration, told me that success didn't translate into better fortunes as a performer. Since I heard that story I have been wondering... MoreOctober 14, 2007Hypebot's 100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion TipsI've been following this for a while now and there's some really good stuff in here. Handy, simple and cheap. Of course, not all of them will work for everyone and some of them will not work at all once... More Posted by Hughie at 7:41 PM | Comments
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October 12, 2007Jmag's best advice ...Jmag, Triple J radio's print extension, has started publishing its "How to ... " section on a blog. I've not read many of these, but they seem to be packed with a bunch of great advice for indies on various... MoreOctober 9, 2007Radiohead wrapThis came out of a discussion on MusicThoughts. There's heap of commentary about the new Radiohead approach to releasing albums but I think a lot of people are reading far too much into this. The strategy is transparent and ...... MoreSeptember 28, 2007Keeping fans' interestAt IMC, one of the more unexpectedly interesting perspectives came from David Cooper, who's an accountant. He specialises in making stuff to help artists at the back end - the accounting and management jobs that most artists struggle with. We... MoreSeptember 27, 2007How to stand out in the crowdJim Fetzer was great for a quote at the Independent Music Conference. At one stage we were discussing the difficult issue of how a band can get people to notice them in this world that is flooded with acts doing... MoreSeptember 26, 2007Have the confidence to be rejectedGot this one from Derek Sivers' website. Derek's an incredible guy who I had the honour to meet a couple of Big Sound Conferences ago. He knows what it takes to be in independent artist and delights in helping indies... More Posted by Hughie at 11:46 AM | Comments
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September 25, 2007Keep your eyes on the prize ...James Fetzer, fetzer music management, covers, covers bands, covers songs, originals bands, original songs, covering songs, playing covers, independent music, independent artists, independent musicians, original music MoreSeptember 24, 2007Confidence to be rejectedGot this one from Derek Sivers' website. Derek's an incredible guy who I had the honour to meet a couple of Big Sound Conferences ago. He knows what it takes to be in independent artist and delights in helping indies... MoreWhy should people care??Jim Fetzer has a unique approach to managing Indie bands ... or any band, for that matter. He has an interesting take on life. But in one of the IMC07 panels, he made the point that for all the new... MoreSeptember 23, 2007Words you will never hear ...At the IMC07 I attended a session on song arrangement run by Lawrence "Gelboni" Gelburd. It was very informative. He basically just showed us how he had re-worked a song by a band he was helping. The song was already... MoreSeptember 18, 2007The Big PictureIndependent music conference, IMC07, independent music, tips for musicians, tips for artists, tips for independent musicians, tips for independent artists, help for artists, help for musicians, how to become an independent artist, independent music career, music business, music industry, independent music business, independent music career More |
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