Posted By Musician Coaching on March 9th, 2010
Samantha Cox is the Executive Director of Creative at BMI. As the process of getting paid as a songwriter tends to be complicated I thought she would be interesting to speak to about how it all works from her perspective on the inside of one of the major PROs (Performing Rights Organization) in the U.S.
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Posted By Musician Coaching on March 5th, 2010
David Rose from Knowthemusicbiz.com was kind enough to let me republish the article below that I wrote for him a while back. If you haven’t already please check out his site. I will have more new interviews and articles starting up again next week.
I was once told a story about Bill Murray and Hunter S. [...]
Posted By Musician Coaching on March 2nd, 2010
Andy Gesner and Rob Fitzgerald are the two principals in the music video promotion company Hip Video Promo. Andy was a musician who had been in and out of rock bands, created the Artists Amplification community and after doing similar video promotion work with other companies founded Hip Video Promo in 2001. Rob came on [...]
Posted By Musician Coaching on February 25th, 2010
This is part 2 of 2 of an interview with Jeff Price, the Founder and CEO of Tunecore. If you missed part one you can read it here.
Musician Coaching:
Fair enough. From the TuneCore stats it sounds like the unbundling of the album really has completely changed the playing field. You have people buying one [...]
Posted By Musician Coaching on February 23rd, 2010
Jeff Price is the Founder and CEO of the digital distribution company Tunecore. Prior to founding Tunecore Jeff ran a label called SpinART Records for seventeen years and also worked at E-Music in their very early days.
Musician Coaching:
Jeff, thanks for taking the time to speak with me. Take me back to five years [...]
Posted By Musician Coaching on February 18th, 2010
A mentor once told me that being an entrepreneur is about separating the wheat from the chaff. This should come as no surprise to you as a musician. If you are reading this the odds are that you are a musician or work with musicians / are related to one. The point is- if you [...]