This site is a blog for musicians and music industry people. It is a free educational resource and it is also the way I advertise my music consulting services. I am an entertainment professional with deep roots in the music industry. Throughout my music career I have been a major label A&R representative, a music supervisor, an artist manager, a reality show producer, a bass player and the head of a digital record label.
Musician and technologist Todd Tate talks about how his experience in the music business and shares some advice for artists who want to grow their fan bases online and build solid careers in the industry.
Tom Silverman founder of Tommy Boy and one of the Principles of the New Music Seminar discusses the statistical trends of the modern music business.
January marked as the best month for artists to release new albums, a study showed many artists appearing on Billboard become one-hit wonders and file-sharing site MegaUpload was finally brought down by feds.
Matt Urmy, co-founder and CEO of Artist Growth talks about the challenges he has faced as a performing musician and how the Artist Growth platform can help artists build sustainable careers within the music industry.
The music industry filed suit against the Irish government, the Billboard 200 switched gears after 60 years and Dave Grohl discussed life and death in rock.
Gabe Roth the bass player, producer and founding member of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (and engineer for Amy Winehouse) discusses how he built his business.
Music stock performance for last year was revealed, Nielsen reported on the official music sales figures for 2011 and experts speculate on the Spotify founder’s ability to transform the music industry.
Karl Alomar of VYou talks about ways artists can use features of his platform to promote their music and build meaningful relationships with fans.
