Just as some states are starting to slowly open restaurants, salons, and other services, crowdfunding campaigns are starting to come back as well. While, with the exception of the suddenly exploding Patreon, crowdfunding is nowhere near its pre-COVID levels, there […]
If you’re like me, your social media feed is probably full of artists doing Facebook or Instagram livestreamed “virtual concerts” to keep busy and hopefully generate some tips and merchandise sales while they can’t tour. But the concert industry supports […]
When touring stopped in March due to COVID-19 distancing precautions, I expected crowdfunding campaigns to skyrocket. With artists unable to tour, it seemed to make sense they’d focus on album fundraising. However, while Patreon has seen an uptick in music […]
As the COVID-19 quarantine continues to keep musicians and fans homebound, artists are looking for alternative ways to keep their revenue stream going until they can resume touring. This is causing some to turn to, or in some cases increase […]
The leader in the clubhouse for the most used phrase of 2020 is “social distancing.” The polite way of saying “stay in your house so you don’t spread COVID-19 to your friends,” social distancing has also had a devastating effect […]
Most musicians will tell you there really isn’t any money in albums anymore. Sure, the resurgence of vinyl has helped some, but streaming is still the dominant way to consume media and it’s well documented how little most artists make […]
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time with Marty Stuart’s new coffee table book, The Pilgrim: A Wall-to-Wall Odyssey, which details the recording, and resulting fallout, of Stuart’s classic 1999 concept album, a critical hit […]
It isn’t often in this column that I get a chance to look backward. With the constant flow of new campaigns, I rarely take the time to go back and see how the ventures I featured here fared. In the […]
The thing that first drew me to roots music was the storytelling. That’s probably not surprising considering my roots indoctrination came in an English class, when my professor introduced us to John Prine, arguably one of the best storytellers in […]
As I write this column, one of the last (if not THE last) Best of 2019 polls has just come out, the Nashville Scene Country Music Critic’s Poll, which included a couple of No Depression columnists in the voting. Like […]
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