Graphs of live sets by Elvis Costello, Duran Duran, Wilco, and Beastie Boys.
For all the upheaval that the music industry is currently experiencing, there is one fact has remained relatively constant: if you can put on a great live show, you will go places.
That said, the definition of a great live show can differ wildly. [click to continue…]
As you might have noticed, we were at the New Music Seminar this past week, and we learned a lot. With the week drawing to a close, we thought we’d leave you with some more pearls of wisdom. These didn’t fit into our earlier coverage, but they’re also too good to leave in our notebooks. [click to continue…]
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DINOWALRUS's Peter Feigenbaum, not keepin' it reductive
When it comes to the tasks and processes involved in making and promoting music, there’s no one right way to do anything.
There are, however, plenty of wrong ways, and that’s why we created What NOT to Do, a regular series in which we help you avoid making the mistakes everybody makes when they’re trying to go it alone in the music world. In this installment, Peter Feigenbaum, a musician, installation artist and architectural designer living in Brooklyn whose band, DINOWALRUS, recently released its debut album, writes about why he believes your debut album should be as digestible and disciplined as possible.
For the past two years, I have been leading this bizzaro Brooklyn-based genre-bending psychedelic-noise-punk outfit called DINOWALRUS. We put out our debut album, %, on Kanine records. We pushed quite hard, but buzz and success eluded us this time around. None of the amazing opportunities that so many of our friends’ bands encountered, whether it was playing bigger shows in NYC or traveling to Europe to play, came our way. And that totally bummed me out. [click to continue…]
When it comes to the tasks and processes involved in making and promoting music, there’s no one right way to do anything.
There are, however, plenty of wrong ways, and that’s why we created What NOT to Do, a regular series in which we help you avoid making the mistakes everybody makes when they’re trying to go it alone in the music world. In this installment, Mike Doerr, who’s played in bands that have shared stages with Fall Out Boy, No Doubt, and Third Eye Blind, gives you the skinny on the pitfalls of going into a recording studio prematurely.
One of the perks of of making your own music is the ability to develop your sound in whichever way you want. Love country music and heavy metal? Put ‘em together. But if commercial success is what you’re after, you may want to think twice about spreading yourself too thinly across the genre spectrum. [click to continue…]
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