music
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Are Spotify & Pandora Killing Music?
Last week, Thom Yorke of Radiohead caused something of an uproar when he proclaimed that he was pulling his music (or at least the stuff he held the rights to) from the online streaming service, Spotify. He wasn’t worried for himself, really, but for the bands and musicians looking to sell their stuff and promote…
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Is Writing & Music & Art Getting Specialized to Death?
I just watched “Dear Mr. Watterson,” a light-hearted documentary about the impact that Bill Watterson’s ever-famous, ever-persistent comic strip, Calvin & Hobbes, has had on people over the years. The part that gripped me most was when several prominent cartoonists spoke in extremely gloomy terms about new media. Berkeley Breathed, the cartoonist behind Opus, Bloom County, and Outland,…
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6 Ways to Promote Your Band Online
When it comes to promoting creative stuff online, I think bands might have a bigger problem than anyone, even authors. Now that bands can upload music to a Bandcamp page in about five minutes, they can give their stuff away. You know, the music they made. For free. To no one. They can also charge…
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How to Get Your Creative Stuff to the Top of Search Engines
My friend, Tim, had a problem with search engine optimization (SEO). The problem, as with most things on the internet, was with Google. He’s in Doze, an up-and-coming band that recently released their first EP. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t find Doze using Google. Pages upon pages of other imposter bands with…
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[GUIDE] How to Use a Blog To Show Off Your Creative Work
When it comes to blogging, nothing is ever easy. Creative people who are blogging as a way to show off their work have it even harder. You can upload as many art pieces and short stories as you want, but it seems almost impossible to get the kind of traffic you want. In many cases,…
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The Winehouse Effect: How We Kill Celebrities
Reading Time: ~3 minutes In late June, Amy Winehouse stumbled onto a stage in Serbia, where she slurred words and lost track of the song playing behind her. TMZ gleefully reported that “tickets to the show were roughly $57 — a lot considering the average monthly salary [there] is $428.” To go on: “Money… spent.” Amy Winehouse…
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Gen Y: Vanity and Narcissism Through Music?
Reading Time: ~5 minutes This wasn’t the exact title of the recent New York Times article. It was The Huffington Post-esque “A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics.” Of course, I wasn’t really that upset or offended by the title, I was a little exasperated. I’ve touched on newspapers and their desperate appeal to their vastly middle-aged to…
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