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Win a Free Copy of My Ebook

October 6, 2008

I’m looking for feedback on my podcast (and or blog). Please enter your name and email (and feedback). At the end of the month one commenter will win a copy of my free ebook “Get Your Band Out of the Basement (and keep them out of the asylum). If there is no form, go here

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No More Playing Gigs When You Are Sick

September 30, 2008

Well its fall here in the US, and everyone around me is already getting sick. They are sneezing, they are vomiting, it is the official start of “Cold and flu season.” There is nothing worse than playing a gig when you are sick (I once played a gig where I was numb on cough syrup [...]

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Pull in Your Listeners With Lyrics

August 27, 2008

I was over at ww.judithowen.net and she has TONS of ways to entertain people on her website. She has videos, she has lyrics, she has music. The one thing that really caught me over and over was her “behind the song” kind of stories. These combined with her lyrics really had me tied into the [...]

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Metllica: New Music – Same Untrusting Attitude

August 24, 2008

Metallica is putting their new music on their website. I’m a Metallica fan. I was on board from Ride the Lightning and I peaked with the black album. I’ve listened to St. Anger three times. The snare drum gives me a headache. Not a Great First Impression So they release a song to the public [...]

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Driving Down The Road, I Mean RIVER – VIDEO

August 16, 2008

One of the features we have on the Musicians Cooler Podcast is the “Tales From The Road.” Those lovely times when things didn’t go quite as planned. Well Peter Woolston not only has a story (which you will hear on a future podcast) but he has VIDEO. The great thing is he was in New [...]

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Doug Ross Coming to the Cooler

August 16, 2008

Doug Ross has managed to make a living as a full time musician for over 20 years without getting famous or going broke. He has a business degree from the University of Maryland, but didn’t learn any money-saving secrets in college. Most of the best advice he’s gotten has come from reading up on basic [...]

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CDBaby Now Run By DiscMakers

August 6, 2008

In a note to CDBaby users owner Derek Sivers said this, “I chose Disc Makers as the new owner because their president Tony Van Veen has been one of my favorite people for years, and I always felt they’d do a better job of running CD Baby than I could. The CD Baby staff, location, [...]

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Do you really think this works?

July 13, 2008

I can always tell when a new edition of the Indie Bible is out. I get flooded with horrible, form letter BS. It’s a shame to see people buy such a great reource and then have no idea what to do with the information. When it comes to the music business, there is no microwave. [...]

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Reverb Nation 200,000 Bands in 20 Months

July 10, 2008

Yesterday I mentioned Ray Confer and his use of Rever Nation. In fact it seem more and more people are jumping on this band wagon. According to a recent press release, they have signed up 200,000 bands in the first 20 months. Impressive. In the release it mentioned, “Use of the ReverbNation technology has recently [...]

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Look Ma No Band!

July 9, 2008

Recently I’ve been swapping emails with Ray Confer. You may know him as “Da Bluez Preacher” (www.dabluezpreacher.com). But I just found out that he is a master of accompanying himself using a Boss RC-50. This technology is amazing. If you are creative, I could see being able to put together a whole show, and go [...]

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