by Steve Grossman | Sep 23, 2006 | Music Business
From a recent collection of business headlines at Yahoo Finance: “Free — and legal — music Universal Music Group has licensed its digital music catalog to a new Web site offering free legal downloads. The site — SpiralFrog — plans to make...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 22, 2006 | Marketing, Music Business
“Prior to the Web, bands that didn’t have a major label behind them couldn’t hope to get national or global attention.” So starts a recent post from Web Ink Now decribing yet another example of how the music business is increasingly fractured...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 21, 2006 | Money, Music Business
Dreaming of stardom can be a trap. I’m all for following you heart, and I believe that the biggest challenge facing mankind is small thinking, but even so, dreaming of stardom often traps musicians and artists into dead end lives of quiet desperation. Why?...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 19, 2006 | Money
I linked to a GREAT post today on a blog called beetlegrass. Written by a freelance illustrator who is celebrating 17 years of working on her own. In honor of that milestone, she has passed along 17 things that she’s “learned over the past years, listed in...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 17, 2006 | Money
As a rule, most musicians can’t make up their minds about money. On the one hand they want to be a star and make lots of it but on the other hand, they’d rather starve than “sell out” their creativity. The fact that our entire society is...
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