By: Connor
FreeAllMusic.com (only showing to US residents at the moment) and similar sites may be the next trend to watch. Music is legally available for free download, as prior to downloading the fan is treated to an advertisement. This pays for the download while keeping it ‘free’ in the eyes of the fan. [...]

By: Connor
I’m curious to see where this business experiment leads –

by James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
Looking at it from a technical point-of-view, the musician is like a musicologist. The word musicology “is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses”. “In the intermediate [...]

by Duke
When I saw the new Music Think Tank article from Bruce Warila this morning, my first natural response was shock, closely followed by anger. That’s what happens when you start reading these things before getting a coffee.
I gotta stop taking satire at face value. But it’s a tightrope. After all, when [...]

Collected by James Pew
1. Top Ten Internet Moments of 2009
2. Top Ten indie albums of 2009
3. Quick Before it Melts is Defining a Decade with Ten album picks from 2000 to 2009 (Still in progress)
4. Ten Tips that Every Musician Should Apply to Their Career
5. Top Ten Tips for Email Newsletters
6. Top Ten [...]