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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I normally keep Crowdfunding Radar a forward-looking column. Once an album is funded and released, it’s in the hands of No Depression‘s team of reviewers. But this week, I want to break that trend a bit because, in the same […]
Like most fans, I got a kick out of The Milk Carton Kids’ send-up of Americana’s “big tent” philosophy at last year’s AMA Awards Show with their song “What Even Is Americana Anyway?” But I’ve never really had a problem […]
They say adversity creates opportunity, and that appears to be true in the world of crowdfunding. With the hopefully temporary implosion of PledgeMusic, there are few crowdfunding sites purely dedicated to music. Enter Bandcamp. Already a proven site for back-end […]
A question I often get from people reading this column is “why in the world does that moderately successful artist need to crowdfund?” There are usually two answers to that question. For truly successful artists, it’s a sign of the […]
Crowdfunding has become big enough that even Grammy-nominated artists are getting in on the action, chasing the ever-shrinking market for physical media to one of the last places it is still a viable commodity. But while artists like John Prine […]
As the old saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum, and that has certainly been the case in the crowdfunding world. The temporary (maybe) loss of PledgeMusic has led to a boom on other crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, with […]
With dozens of new crowdfunding campaigns launching each week, it can be difficult for a young band to get enough notice beyond their core fanbase to make a campaign successful. One tactic used by young artists to stand out is […]
Crowdfunding doesn’t often find its way into the news and, when it does, it’s usually a television or technology project instead of a music one. Unfortunately, music crowdfunding’s time in the spotlight this month has not been a positive one. […]
If you play crowdfunding word association with most people, the first answer you’d get back is likely “Kickstarter.” The second, particularly if they are consumers of crowdfunded music, is “PledgeMusic.” But both those sites were predated by a little site […]
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