March 2009
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Tech Talk w/ Randy
Our in-house tech guru, Mr. Randy Funke, is going to be hosting an interactive chat this Thursday, April 2, at 6pm Central. We thought it might be helpful for a lot of you to have a tech resource that could answer your questions about how to establish websites, social network presence, e-mail lists, file formats, really whatever you have questions about.
Randy is responsible for maintaining...
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Jazz Pianist Sanford Hinderlie and Bassist Martin...
On Sunday evening, we streamed a live concert with brilliant jazz pianist Sanford Hinderlie and up-and-coming bassist Martin Masakowski. The concert took place in Roussel Performance Hall at Loyola University New Orleans.
Streaming this performance was a first for us, and those of you that tuned in had some amazing feedback, so I’ve embedded the entirety of the performance below for the...
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Live Chat with the Artists House Crew
We’re back again this week with another live chat!
We’ll have Ann Bernard, an entrepeneur (YutMedia.com, WhyGoSolo.com, TicketsWithATwist.com) and knowledgeable social media consultant, together with musical guests Caddywhompus on the show this week. Ann originally got in touch with us on twitter many months ago, and she has recently moved to New Orleans. I think you’ll find...
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Weekly Wrap-Up
In case you missed it, here are some highlights from last week in music news and artist advice:
Artists House:
If you missed it, last Wednesday’s live chat is now (finally!) posted on the blog: http://ow.ly/1I9f
Join the Artists House Facebook group! http://is.gd/oSUT
AH Vault: Guides to Entrepreneurship http://ow.ly/1xHF
Trina Shoemaker on Ideal Personality Traits of Producers and...
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Live Forum w/ Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora
We’ve got some exciting ideas in the pipeline for all of you that I want to tell you about. As we talked about several months ago, we want to ramp up our Artists House live events - we want to be more interactive so that we can encourage the awesome conversations that have been taking place online.
Starting this evening, we’re going to be broadcasting the Music Industry Forums that...
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Live Chat Wrap-Up: Big Rock Candy Mountain
Sorry it has taken a few extra days to get our live chat wrap-up posted up here on the blog - we’re working with some new technology to try to improve our chats and make it easier for all of you to interact with us and each other. Small steps! (I keep saying this to myself more and more often….)
Anywho, I think we had one of our best live chats with you guys last week, and we had some...
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Are You An Artist or Entertainer?
I’m happy to bring you a thoughtful guest post from Primus Luta ,who posed on Twitter a juicy question ripe for discussion concerning the difference between artists and entertainers. I whole-heartedly agree that this is a real-world question that eventually every creative-type must ask himself. There’s obviously a lot to say on the subject (more than 140 characters), and this article...
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AH Vault: Guides To Entrepreneurship
NEWS FLASH: All you budding musicians, concert promoters, managers, audio producers, etc. out there are actually entrepreneurs. This is a big fancy word meaning you take professional risks on your own ideas because you have passion and drive. Our own George Howard has a starter’s guide put together over on the Artists House main site, which is intended to serve as inspiration for those who...
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Cory Doctorow Talks Copyright
For those of you who don’t know who Cory Doctorow is, he is a freelance journalist, former director of European affairs for the EFF, a 4x college dropout and founder of an open source cola company. Doctorow makes a living giving away his books and other creative works for free, as well being the co-editor of Boing Boing, and contributing to WIRED, Guardian.co.uk, and Craphound.com. And...
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Live Chat with the Artists House Crew
That’s right - it’s Wednesday, and you know what that means - another live chat with the Artists House crew!
I hope you’ll tune in and join the conversation with us this evening (March 26) at 6pm Central Time (click here to convert time zones).
We have special guests from the band Big Rock Candy Mountain, part of the New Orleans Indie Rock Collective - we’ll let your...
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AH Vault: Chris Blackwell Discussing U2's Initial...
Given the recent new stories regarding the sales of U2’s last record, No Line On The Horizon, I thought it would be kind of cool to take a look at a video that discusses the release of the band’s last record How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, and the prototypical digital distribution strategy that was employed along with it. This campaign has stuck in my memory in particular, as my...
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Jazz from the Artists House Chat!
For your listening pleasure, I thought I’d post some excerpts of some of the brilliant music we heard this week on the Artists House live chat - brought to you by members of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz:
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Live Chat - Wednesday, March 18
Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know that we’re on for this week’s live chat — we’re going to be talking with our special guests from the band Big Rock Candy Mountain about live show and touring strategies, as well as the importance of working together and forming ‘collectives’ with like-minded folks.
We’ve talked a lot about this theme here on the...
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Substitute, Not Catalyst
Is streaming music a substitute for music sales? This question is at the heart of an informative article written by Douglas MacMillan over at Business Week. To quote the article:
“Overall music sales have continued their years-long slide. Total industry sales were about $10 billion last year, down from $14 billion in 2000, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Revenues...
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Best of Music News and Artist...
In case you missed it, here are some highlights from this week in music news and artist advice:
From Artists House Music:
AH Vault: Wayne Kramer On How Music Changes Your Life http://ow.ly/T1i
Chris Blackwell on Independent Labels and the Challenges of Artist Development (Video) http://ow.ly/WCD
AH Vault: Wayne Kramer On How Music Changes Your Life http://ow.ly/T1i
Artists House Vault:...
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Dalton Caldwell On iMeem's Monetization Strategy
Hypebot posted a link to a YouTube clip of iMeem’s CEO Dalton Caldwell discussing his company’s strategy for monetizing and growing their brand. The company has seen remarkable growth over the past few years, which I would say is due to their inventive use of sharable media objects and their ability to harness the passion of their community relating to their subject. The...
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AH Vault: Wayne Kramer On How Music Changes Your...
From time to time I think its important to take one giant step back and realize WHY we are all doing what we do. Sure, this is the BUSINESS of music, but without the art all of the branding, networking, copyright wrangling, and digital media strategizing wouldn’t actually mean much. I found this video yesterday of Wayne Kramer, former MC5 guitarist (if you don’t know who they are...
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Live Chat Wrap-Up: Special Guest Kelvin Brown
Today’s chat was a crazy, adrenaline-rush of a musical hour with our special guest, the man himself Mr. Kelvin Brown a.k.a. 3rd Shift a.k.a. TheCincinnatiMonster.com. Kelvin talked about what it takes to build a successful career as an independent musician/producer in today’s music business. He then proved his ‘seriousness’ (as demonstrated by donning the...
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Panel: How Musicians Can Make Money Online
Via the Midemnet Blog, a panel discussion featuring Terry McBride of Nettwerk Music, Peter Leathem from PPL, and Paul Brown from Slicethepie (probably best to ignore his Pandora affiliation for the purposes of this topic). It makes for good viewing, as each of these guys is on the forefront of the digital transition for the music industry, and are actually finding some success in this...
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Artists House Live Chat: Wed. March 11
Our live chats have been growing at quite a steady pace over these past few weeks, and each new conversation invigorates us even more to continue building this community of educated and inspired musicians!
We’re back again this Wednesday with another discussion about what it takes to succeed in the music business. As always, our discussion will be guided by the questions you can submit...
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Artists House Vault: Without This, There Is...
The Sine Qua Non of the Music Business - “Without This, There is Nothing”
In this clip from the Artists House video vault, George Howard discusses the two things you must have and understand in order to succeed in the music business:
The Hedgehog Concept, an idea coined in Jim Collins’ book Good To Great
and
An unshakeable conviction that your music, or the music of the...
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Weekly Wrap-Up
In you case you missed anything, here are some highlights from this week in music news and artist advice!
From Artists House Music:
Miss this week’s chat? We’ve got the archived video up on the blog now, and some footage of @mynameisjm performing! http://ow.ly/J3I
“Musicians ARE Businesses” - on the Artists House blog - http://ow.ly/DeF
Put Yourself on the Artists House...
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John Michael Joins us on the Artists House Chat
Thanks to everyone who came out to the chat on Wednesday, we had a lot of fun and hope you enjoyed our guest, John Michael Rouchell. During the chat, we talked about what it means to be an indie musician, music promotion, playing alternative venues, and even got to hear a couple of solo performances from John Michael.
If you missed us, be sure to check out the chat here:
We also got some...
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Join us for a Live Chat, Wednesday, March 4
Hey everyone! Mardi Gras festivities were too good to us, so we decided to take last week off from our usual live chats on Wednesdays. Did you miss us?
Fret no more! We’re back again and ready to rock harder than ever! We’ll be having a live Ustream chat tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, at 6:00pm (Central Time).
All of you in the Artists House community are invited to chat with us about...
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Musicians are Businesses - Government and Small...
John Snyder, Co-Chairman of the Louisiana Music Commission and President of Artists House, finds something positive in Governor Bobby Jindal’s controversial speech. “Musicians are businesses”, says Snyder. “It’s not a box they check or a form they fill out. They are businesses because what they do creates rights under the United States Constitution and Federal Copyright Statutes. And these rights...
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The Power of Retweets and @Replies
Without question, Twitter is one of the most powerful marketing tools at the disposal of artists. If you’re familiar with Twitter, you likely already know that your own tweets can be used to promote your music-related activities to your followers. You should also know that tweeting about your non music-related activities, as well as providing your followers with frequent photo and video...
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Weekly Wrap-Up
Here are some of the highlights from this week in music news and musician advice!
ARTISTS HOUSE NEWS:
Breaking Down The Music Tax http://ow.ly/rJE
Sync Up 2008 Conference Panel: The Rest of the Business Goes Digital http://ow.ly/uQH
Friendfeed: That’s right! Artists House is now partaking of the Friendfeed goodness. Subscribe to us here: http://friendfeed.com/artistshouse
We asked all of you...