Bloggers and journalists are usually excited about doing email interviews with musicians, until they get the responses back and realize that the sub-par answers barely communicate anything of interest, much less a useable article.
Don’t let this happen to you. [click to continue…]
Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all.
Youth is one of the biggest, loudest, most powerful engines of the music industry. Kids buy the most music, go to the most shows, and as We Are The Kids reminds us, they also dream of entering the music industry one day. [click to continue…]
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Yesterday, we gave you the inside scoop on what led Patronism founder John Pointer to the idea for his platform. In part two of our interview, we discuss Patronism’s artist application, breaking the album cycle, and his site’s future. [click to continue…]
The concept of patronage is enjoying one hell of a comeback.
Despite being almost as old as art itself, the rise of direct to fan strategies and a hunger for alternative business models has begun to lead more and more pop artists and indie music business professionals to seek out steady streams of income for support, rather than living and dying on sales, touring, and merch.
This, John Pointer hopes, is where Patronism comes in. [click to continue…]
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