Building Context for Your Creative Work
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Why do you make music? Write books? Make films? You might know, you might not. Either way, you do it for a specific reason. Maybe it’s to explore. Maybe it’s… Read More →
An Effective Artist Website in 5 Steps
- Categories: Art and creativity, DIY, Interwebs, Music business •
- Tags: aesthetics, art, artist, author, behavior, brand, differentiation, dimensional, effective websites, identity, indie, indie artist, indie music, message, motivation, originality, psychology, recording artist, representation, vision, wampus, web design, website, website construction, writer •
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If you’re a recording artist or author, what do you see as the purpose of your website? To educate? To inform? To advertise? Think again. While your site might do… Read More →
Kickstarter vs. NEA: Paths to Indie Funding
- Categories: Art and creativity, Music business •
- Tags: album, art, artist, artist communities, artistic health care, arts education, arts funding, comics, community theater, creative, creative process, creative projects, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture wars, dance, design, fashion, festival, film, folk art, food, funding, funding path, games, indie artist, indie artists, indie band, indie filmmaker, kickstarter, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, national endowment for the arts, NEA, neum, opera, paths, photography, publishing, record, technology, theater, traditional art, united states, visual arts, yancey strickler •
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Have an album you’re ready to record and release? A film you want to produce and screen at festivals? How are you going to pay for it? Talking Points Memo (TPM)… Read More →
Spotify Royalties Rising?
- Categories: Music business •
- Tags: application software, artist, computing, digital audio, fail to pay, freeware, launch, media technology, music, music download services, music industry, music streaming, napster, online music stores, pandora, rhapsody, royalties, royalty, royalty rates, spotify, stream, streaming media, streaming service, virtual communities, web 2.0 •
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All right, artists — have you bought your first sandwich yet with your Spotify royalties? We first examined streaming royalties in August, and are taking a fresh look at them… Read More →
Spotify: 3 Tips for Artists
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- Tags: amazon, artist, artistic identity, choice, digital audio, digital media, facebook, freeware, identity, indie artist, indie artists, media technology, mistrust, mixtape, multimedia, music, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, playlists, recording artist, spotify, stream, streaming music, tips •
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Depending on whom you ask, the music-streaming service Spotify is either the savviest music-sharing platform ever or the canniest artist-fleecing apparatus ever. Either way, it just might be the future of… Read More →