By Derek Silvers
If you are a performing musician that sells CDs at your shows, please consider this:
Terry McBride of Nettwerk told this story at a recent conference:
A band he was managing was doing the usual thing of selling CDs for $15. They’d mention it once or twice from the stage, and sell about $300 per [...]

Here is a great music meetup being held in Toronto. Organized by Gabriel Nijmeh, this looks like a great educational and networking opportunity for artists and those interested in new music models like Direct-to-Fan, which is the focus of the evening.
Checkout the blog OpenMusicMedia Toronto
Here is the open invite…BTW the event is FREE.
We are pleased [...]

This weeks pick is Bruce Houghton, Editor at Hypebot (music industry blog), and president of boutique booking agency Skyline Music. Hypebot is a daily must read for anyone in, or interested in, the music industry. This week Bruce published an important piece called The Music Industry Pays The Price Of Negativity (click through the link [...]

The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy (also known as a wheel fiddle) is a stringed musical instrument in which the strings are sounded by means of a rosined wheel which the strings of the instrument pass over. This wheel, turned with a crank, functions much like a violin bow, making the instrument essentially a mechanical violin. [...]

By James Pew
The post below, Career Lessons From Taylor Swift from David Hooper at Music Marketing [dot] com is one of the best Music Wisdom selections the Studio Manifesto team has found since we began the series.
Adding to Davids great advice on how to handle your fans during a period of media interest, I [...]