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What to Do When You’re Playing to Eight People, and How to Make It Important

August 9, 2010

[Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Musformation. It has been edited for content and clarity, and it appears here with permission from the original site and author.] If you had to identify the major reason most musicians are so miserable, it would have to be the the immense disappointment that comes from playing [...]

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Five Reasons For a Musician to Consider the Creative Commons

July 23, 2010

If you want to understand the need for a Creative Commons approach to copyright law for musicians, you could do worse than to visit San Francisco. When you get there, take the 1-California Muni bus to the Outer Richmond District, get off at the 22nd Avenue stop, cross the street to the Bazaar Cafe, and [...]

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The Complete Guide to Eating Healthily On the Road, Part Two

July 22, 2010

Earlier today, Amy Klein offered up part one of her tips for eating healthily when you’re on tour. Below, you’ll find part two.

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How to Sound Check, Part Two

July 18, 2010

Earlier today I went over the basic preparations required to make a sound check run smoothly. Now, we’ll get down to the nitty gritty of how you and the house technical staff can best work together to bring your audience a truly memorable and killer show.

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How to Tour a Foreign Act in the United States (Part One)

July 6, 2010
Eric Herman

This post was written by Eric Herman, the co-founder and president of Modiba, a social-activist international music company based in New York City (pictured above). It is a record label/production, management, publishing and consulting resource for international artists. Modiba Publishing is North America’s only consolidated catalog of international music of all varieties and from all [...]

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Rockethub Launches Crowdfunding Community Site

June 23, 2010
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Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding can be a huge part of a rising musician’s business model. Whether you’re trying to raise money for a single, an album, a European tour, a music video, or literally anything else, crowdfunding can make that happen if you do it right. And thanks to Rockethub’s newly launched community site, that’s about [...]

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Family Records’ Wesley Verhoeve on How to Price Your Albums, and How to Listen to Your Fans

June 22, 2010
Wesley Verhoeve

Wesley Verhoeve has surveyed the music business from a lot of different vantages. The founder of Family Records and co-founder of long-running live event Cross-Pollination, Verhoeve has worked at major labels like Verve and Sony BMG, run an A&R department, edited a digital hip-hop magazine, and even guided his own band through multiple releases and [...]

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Andrew W.K. on the Benefits of Self-Awareness

June 21, 2010
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When Andrew W.K. blasted into everybody’s consciousness with his big, dumb major label debut, I Get Wet, there were naysayers who complained that W.K.’s party-starting antics were a self-aware schtick. But in this never-before-seen Deeper Dives clip, W.K. explains that the best way to create an honest image that speaks to fans is by being [...]

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