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The New Rockstar Philosophy -Take Control of Your Music
http://newrockstarphilosophy.com
A Music Industry Blog revolving around empowering bands to think of their music and themselves as a business.
The New Rockstar Philosophy is also the title of an upcoming music business book designed to show artists how knowing who you really are, knowing what you want to express, keeping costs in control and embracing entrepreneurship increases your chances of success.
Recent Posts
Mayer Embraces New Media and Sells 300,000 records
So this is somewhat of a follow-up to my last Mayer post regarding his constant communication with fans. He just released Battle Studies last week and so far has sold over 300,000 copies. Not bad in today’s world of free music. Not bad at al...
Thanks to Spotify Lady Gaga Can Buy a Keg!
Woah, remember Spotify? One of the great hopes of the record industry? Streaming audio all the time, all the music you can take, easy to use, etc, etc,. The big plus was that artists were going to start making some money off of streaming music. Well...
3 New Interesting MySpace Changes
In the NRP book we wrote that although MySpace is getting pushed around by facebook it still holds weight for artists. I was concerned that I’d have to revise that during the summer as MySpace looked like it was going down for the count. But t...
On Stage Visuals
Last weekend, I checked out this band called Ohbijou. It was really out of a chance as I was with some people and we ended up at the venue. When I heard the band name from a friend, I was like what?? It sounded like a jumble of vowels, very simil...
Top 3 Most Influential Rock Bands of The 2000’s
Rock music is a different beast then it was in 1999. Thank god. Nu-metal is a bad dream I’d like to forget. But out of all that shit some good things did come. Mainly, the incredible crop of bands that took rock music to either: it’s cla...
The Significance of Keeping A Fan Constantly Engaged.
If you read this blog on a regular basis, you know I’m a John Mayer fan. Knock him all you want, but Continuum was a great album. Over the last year, I’ve kept close tabs on his blog/twitter as he started developing the concepts for hi...
