Over my years of doing Crowdfunding Radar, there have been weeks when there just haven’t been many interesting new campaigns launched and, in those times, I’ve been very thankful for the broad tastes of roots music fans, which gives […]
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Around the turn of the year, the flow of album releases slows down. Artists and labels wisely don’t want to have to compete with holiday news and holiday budgets, nor do they want to compete for press with the […]
One of the first Todd Snider songs I heard was “Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues.” For those unfamiliar, the song satirizes the dying days of grunge, when it started to be consumed by the same excesses that helped it […]
It’s the time of year when every music publication, and some non-music publications looking to fill column inches, starts turning to their “best of the year” lists. While some people hate these, I love them because it gives me […]
In the hundreds of concerts I’ve been to, the onstage quote I most repeat came courtesy of Mollie O’Brien, who introduced a forlorn love song by saying “We’re Irish. We’re not happy unless we’re sad.” In some ways, the […]
People can (and if you have ever been to AmericanaFest, you know do) debate what the “roots” of Americana are. But I think in years to come, it’s going to be harder to argue what artist did the most to […]
While the majority of crowdfunding campaigns you see on sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are true funding campaigns, there are also a significant minority that are more like pre-orders with perks. It’s true that crowdfunding fees aren’t cheap, but they’re […]
The pandemic has brought out a number of themes among songwriters. Songs of isolation and desolation. Songs of depression. Tons of songs about politics. Even quite a few about reconnecting through disconnecting. But there haven’t been a lot of songs […]
As I write this, I am preparing to leave for what promises to be the most unusual AmericanaFest ever. As this goes live, many of you will just be returning from what was hopefully an enjoyable one nonetheless. While […]
One of the things I love most about writing Crowdfunding Radar is finding young artists few have heard of (myself included) and boosting the signal for their first album, or first professionally produced album. That’s what most people think of […]
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