I was fortunate to recently speak with Adam Navone, drummer of Blue Turtle Seduction about their biofuel bus and how they cut down their emissions and how bands can make a difference with the environment.

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Music trade vet Gottehrer thinks for himself
Labels are no longer king, he says. “The brand is the artist. As in the old days, you have to find a way to speak to the audience. With digital, there is the opportunity to identify what people want and give it to them, instead of the broad spectrum [...]

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A victory for the smalls against the bigs: Copyright holders must actually check to see their rights are violated before crying foul. This means that Corporations like Universal cannot blanket companies like uTube to pull down every time someone uses a clip of a Prince song.
In a victory for small-time music copiers over the entertainment [...]

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The rising fees of webcasting, threaten to shut down Pandora.
Call me crazy but I thought the point of making music was to have people hear it… It’s sad that the innovative companies are saddled with exorberant fees. Perhaps thats the point, to make them go out of business, though I doubt the Old Music industry [...]

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We have received several different requests for help with new promotion tools, so this spot and the comments attached to it will begin to list out different, new, exciting and potentially useful band promotion tools!
The first one on the list is Twitter.  What the heck is Twitter anyway and how is it useful to you?  [...]

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iTunes and Wallmart remain number 1 and 2. Amazon moves up to fourth as “online CD sales have seen less erosion than CD sales at brick-and-mortar stores”.  Interesting to note “Amazon’s CD buyers tend to be older, so they haven’t [...]

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The links in this post highlight several music startups that appear to have some potential for success.

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from About.com Music Careers:
Who pays for the promotional costs of a show really depends on the kind of deal promoters and bands make between themselves…

If there is to be a flat fee for the show, that the band gets no matter how many tickets are sold and whether the promoter makes a fortune or loses [...]

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