By Mike McDearmon Got your band’s new album on Spotify? Great! That’s the easy part… You are a musician, and perhaps you’re in a band that already has music available through all the major stores and streaming services. Getting to this point is actually pretty simple and most distributors/aggregators can hook you up in short order (for…
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 006 ENVELOP Co-Founder, Christopher Willits, with help from Alingo Loh ENVELOP is both an immersive media space in San Francisco (featuring 28.4 channels of audio, HD video projection and synchronized LED lighting) and a software toolkit that will provide listeners with a next-level experience of music and give…
After taking Oli Rockberger’s course The New Songwriter’s Workshop, I was left with a single glaring question about the nature of my craft. When approaching the art of songwriting, should I focus on fluidity and a singular unified message across the instrumentation, vocal style, lyrics, and tone? Or, should I let each element stand out individually…
The theremin is a musical instrument that is played without any contact by the performer. It was one of the first electronic instruments ever created, and later popularized by Robert Moog who designed a build-it-yourself kit version for mass consumption. It was invented and pattented in 1928 by Léon Theremin, a Russian whose actual name…
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 005 MUZEEK Co-Founder/Managing Director, Danny Fiorentini Sometimes the only difference between a locally-unknown band and a nationally-recognized band is the quality of shows they’re playing. Streamlining and professionalizing the booking process, and being wholly available to live opportunities is just the beginning. Building a better band…
Maybe it’s just my way of justifying getting a beer a few times a week and hanging out with musician friends I don’t get to see often enough because the hustle is real. Maybe I’m addicted to live music and desperately need to start a weekly support group. But when I don’t catch at least…
Here’s a situation many musicians experience on an all-too-regular basis: You get out of your day job, sit in traffic all the way home, load your gear, eat, maybe review some material, inch through more traffic and arrive at practice only to find the band “leader” isn’t ready or, worse, isn’t even there yet?!?! They…
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 004 LANDR Founder, Justin Evans Landr is computerized track-by-track mastering. The team that built MixGenius years ago is back with a new identity and a bold new take on audio with a self-learning algorithmic program that works off of an enormous bank of references, and is trained to…
Exploring the nostalgic secret world of railfans and the universal lessons to be found in a life spent recording the sounds of passing trains.
Summer is a time for love, and with that, comes a whole new chance to woo the guy or girl of our dreams. Enter: the love song. It’s that wonderful, time-honored tradition that would-be Romeos have been using to swoop a lady-love off her feet for hundreds of years. Or in my case make her…
