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Free Content and the T-Shirt Economy

I read an interesting article recently by Clive Thompson called How T-Shirts Keep Online Content...

Dec 1st

Artists House Vault: Careers in Sound...

I’ve received several requests on twitter for more information about careers in music other...

Nov 30th

The Artist's Dilemma

Last week, we posted an interview with Jerry Goolsby talking about the sometimes touchy issue of art...

Nov 29th

Artists House Music

Hello everyone! We hope all of you had a wonderfully full Thanksgiving, in every sense. Even though...

Nov 28th

Artists House Vault: Dennis DeYoung of...

For today’s Artists House Vault I decided to do something a little different.  Instead of...

Nov 27th

New Music Labels as Artist Collectives

In today’s music business, record labels are completely amorphous. No one knows what they are,...

Nov 26th

ISP Tax: A Solution For File Sharing?

Andrew Orlowski has written a fascinating article over at The Register, which details how an ISP tax...

Nov 26th

Simple Tips for Success: Follow your...

This week’s Simple Tips for Success is aimed to help you maximize Twitter using TweetFeed. If...

Nov 25th

Focus on Attention, not Copies

There is an important article on Gerd Leonhard’s blog about the difference between attention...

Nov 25th

Use the Web: TheNextBigSound.com

I’ve recently fallen in love with a new music discovery/promotion website. I’ve really...

Nov 24th

Consider Different Price Points for Your...

I’d like to start off the week with some food for thought. I’ve read a swarm of...

Nov 24th

Weekly Wrap Up: Busier Than Ever

It was quite a week here at the Artists House Blog, with our first guest blogger and a record high...

Nov 24th

Artists House Vault: The Deal with 360...

360 deals are not new. Artists such as Robbie Williams and Korn signed 360 deals years ago, when...

Nov 23rd

Artists House Vault: Art Vs. Commerce

We spend a lot of time here on the blog talking about what it takes to successfully apply proven...

Nov 22nd

Talk Back to your Core Community

We spend a lot of time hyping why today’s musicians need to be active on the interwebs. Social...

Nov 21st

Musebin: Twitter-style Music Reviews

“It’s a reaction to the wordy, wordy MP3 blogs and people craving really concise...

Nov 20th

Artists House Vault: Samples

In music production and recording, using samples can often create sticky situations.  Artists House...

Nov 20th

Different Paths for Different Artists

In light of the discussion surrounding Ian Roger’s recent address about the New Music Business...

Nov 20th

Reader Profile: Josh Belville

Hello all! Our first Reader Profile is up, and the artist we’ve chosen is Josh Belville.  Josh...

Nov 20th

Viewing Piracy in a New Light...

There has been some great discussion regarding the recent Tennessee legislation that essentially...

Nov 19th

Ian Rogers on the New Music Business...

Normally, this is the kind of information I’d share with you on our twitter, but this is...

Nov 19th

Use The Web: MediaMobz.com

MediaMobz is a web based company that seeks to connect video producers with people who need them....

Nov 19th

Simple Tips for Success: Focus on a Few

My proposition to you is to spend less time worrying about the number of friends or followers you...

Nov 18th

Artists House Vault: Band Managers

thefabe, an active music blogger and one of our followers on twitter, asked us recently about when...

Nov 18th

Viewing Piracy in a New Light

Today we are featuring a guest blogger - writer/musician/friend Josh Belville. We found Josh on...

Nov 17th

Does Your Band's Website Pass the Test?...

Last week we began our first installment in a series about search engine optimization for musicians....

Nov 17th

Artists House Vault: Careers in Arts...

Some of us have always known that we want to be part of the arts community, but have decided...

Nov 17th

Artists House Vault: Kelvin Brown on his...

Artists House has some fantastic interviews with a producer / entrepreneur / student who is getting...

Nov 14th

Muxtape Relaunch

It appears that Muxtape is nearing its relaunch as a service for bands.  Previously, M was a free...

Nov 14th

Anti- Fall 2008 Sampler, And A Word On...

iMeem has secured the right to stream the new Anti-Records Fall 2008 digital sampler, the...

Nov 14th

Simple Tips for Success: Get Social

For this week’s Simple Tips for Success, I’d decided to use my contribution to Project...

Nov 13th

Does Your Band's Website Pass the Test?...

This is the first lesson of several that will be posted over the upcoming days, so be sure to come...

Nov 13th

Use The Web: Bandbox.com

Last week I was introduced to a website that is creating something that I have been attempting to...

Nov 11th

Artists House Vault: Protools Tutorial

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend! If you are like me these couple of days off are a...

Nov 9th

Weekly Wrap Up

Hey Readers - Here is this week’s best of compilation, for those who may have missed it: Use...

Nov 8th

Artists House Vault: How to be a Tour...

I was talking about roadies, booking tours, and long drives with a friend and decided to search...

Nov 7th

Do Not Put Your Faith in Ticketmaster

I’ve been trying to stay quiet with my thoughts about Ticketmaster’s latest news...

Nov 7th

Reader Profiles: Artists and Songs

I just posted a note over on our Facebook page about a new feature we’ve started up here at...

Nov 7th

Use The Web: Why Paul Boutin Wants You...

Paul Boutin’s article in WIRED magazine this month suggests that blogging in the age of Twitter and...

Nov 7th

Under Our Roof: A Profile of Jonathon...

The Art Of Tearing Down Your Walled Garden Jonathon Coulton is an Internet musician, personality,...

Nov 6th

Francis and the Lights form LLC, get 1...

Now this is interesting. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. — Francis Farewell Starlite, frontman of independent...

Nov 6th

Traits of a Healthy Music Business

Provoked by the tantalizing and mostly ambiguous news about Ticketmaster proposing to reinvent...

Nov 5th

Use The Web: Webmonkey.com

Ordinarily, I won’t be dropping one of these columns two days running, as I wouldn’t...

Nov 5th

Use The Web: Redbubble.com

Hello readers - This is the first installment of what I am going to be calling the “Use The...

Nov 3rd

Simple Tips for Succes: Start a Mailing...

Hello loyal readers! I’m going to start a weekly column geared towards providing simple yet...

Nov 3rd

Artists House Vault: Booking and Touring

Though artists could easily spend all of their time promoting themselves online, technology will...

Nov 2nd