For most of 2020 and all of 2021, independent artist-oriented site Bandcamp ran its “Bandcamp Fridays,” where they waived their fees on the first Friday of the month, sending approximately 93% of the money spent at the site to […]
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Over the past couple of weeks, some unexpected names have dominated the news cycle: not Beyonce or Taylor, as you’d expect in awards season, but Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. If you aren’t familiar with the Young/Spotify dustup (and […]
One of the more persistent myths about crowdfunding campaigns is that the only people who use them are young regional acts who “can’t get a label” or lifelong club warriors who “can’t get a label.” That myth couldn’t be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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