Artistic Courage Is Not Optional
Think for a moment about artistic courage. We’re all busy, right? We have a lot to tend to every day — family, friends, home, job, volunteering, watching cat videos on… 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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- by Wampus
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 →
Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce
- Categories: Identity, Music business •
- Tags: amazon, artistic brand, artistic identity, artists, best buy, brand, CD, copyright, digital audio, digital media, download, facebook, free spotify, freeware, identity, indie artists, indie music news, indie rock music, intellectual property, media technology, megaupload, mixtape, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, napster, playlists, spotify, stream, streaming music, tower records, vinyl, walmart •
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- by Wampus
You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market.… Read More →
Spotify: 3 Tips for Artists
- Categories: Music business •
- 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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- by Wampus
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 →
Lessons of R.E.M.: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- Categories: Art and creativity, Identity •
- Tags: accelerate, automatic for the people, bill berry, brain aneurysms, breaking up, identity, indie music, lifes rich pageant, michael stipe, mike mills, monster, murmur, music industry, peter buck, r.e.m., reveal, up •
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Reactions to the recent breakup of R.E.M. ranged from shock to nostalgia to acceptance. After 31 years — effectively three times as long as The Beatles were on the radar, or… Read More →