The question I’m asked most often by readers of this column is “How do you find all of these bands?” Often, these questions are from the artists themselves, curious what dirt road off the information superhighway led me to them. […]
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As a kid, I was never a fan of country music. It was what my mom listened to, which made it automatically not cool to a rebellious teenage metalhead. There were a few artist I made an exception for, though — […]
There are many reasons why an established artist might choose to crowdfund an album. I’ve explored some of these in past columns, and they include wanting to keep their own masters, performing something different than what you’re known for, and […]
Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to describe “meaningful coincidences,” such as thinking of someone and then seeing them the same day. While I’m not sure I subscribe to the concept of synchronicity, except as a really good album by […]
My past few columns have been themed around a certain subject or type of artist. This wasn’t intentional. Instead, it seemed that once I found one Christmas album or EP release, I found two, then three, and then I had […]
If you read that headline and shook your head sadly, please know that I am a kindred spirit. I too feel a little of myself die every time I go into a big box store in September only to find […]
In my last column, I explored three established artists who chose to crowdfund their new albums to retain creative control. Little did I know that, soon after I turned my draft in for that column, what is shaping up to […]
I recently read Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist and was struck by how, behind a veil of excellent humor, Fisher made it clear that the three principal actors in Star Wars did not reap the financial rewards of the surprise […]
I got my start as a music journalist covering the festival scene. In that job, I interviewed a lot of smaller-name artists who spoke about the things they did to their setlist to draw “walk up traffic” to their show. […]
Crowdfunding has opened up the music business to people who would never have been able to make an album before, allowing more regional artists to tap into their smaller but passionate fan base to get their album made. But for […]
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