Music Business Weekly Wrap-Up

There’s a lot of information flying around out there, and I’ve picked some highlights from this week in music business news and artist advice that I think you might find interesting and helpful:

Artists House Music:

• I recommend every single person that I’m following for good conversation about the music business: http://twitter.com/artistshouse/following
• How Outsiders Drive Innovation http://ow.ly/hx2g
• Are Music Industry Stats Relevant to You? http://ow.ly/hr9E and…
• More on Music Industry Stats and Relevance http://ow.ly/hrjG
• How a Music Supervisor Finds Songs for a Film http://ow.ly/hqp6
• Artists House Music: Why Are We Doing This In The First Place? http://ow.ly/hkt0
• I think at this point if you’re still using MySpace to share your music, you look like you don’t know what you’re doing. More on this later…

News:

• Reader donations save ‘Paste’ magazine http://ow.ly/hwX6
• Rykodisc Shuffled Under ILG, Staff Cut http://ow.ly/hq3P
• EMI Considers Bond Issue To Re-Finance Debt http://ow.ly/hwsB
• TopSpin: New Site, New Music http://ow.ly/hq31
• Facebook Hits 250 Million Users http://ow.ly/hq4I

Thought/Opinion/Advice:

• Henry Rollins on advertising and ‘selling out’: http://ow.ly/hDne
• 15 Essential Web Tools For The Musician http://ow.ly/hwUz Which ones do you use?
• Collaborations and Sticky Situations http://ow.ly/hwuy
• RSS and the Greatly Exaggerated Rumors of the Album’s Death http://ow.ly/hrbP
• Traveling as a Musician http://ow.ly/hqbK
• What Happens When the Band Breaks Up? http://ow.ly/hgsn
• A Musicians Guide For Finding Managing and Reading Music Blogs (if you don’t use RSS, read this) http://ow.ly/hdMS
• Exercises for Mastering Notation http://ow.ly/h9YE

You might notice if you peek over to the top right-hand side of this page that I added a new feature. Since you guys offer us so much support, I wanted to find a way to put you guys back in the spotlight (without turning our twitter stream into a ‘thank you for the love’ stream). So, now whenever you @thank us on twitter, your message will (should) appear up here on the blog! Small steps forward.