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| Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | | · | Dan Ripke: Teaching Improvisation to Children | | Thursday, April 11, 2002 | | · | Michigan Music History - State Song | | Tuesday, January 01, 2002 | | · | Neurotic Marketing | | Saturday, June 23, 2001 | | · | Jackie Blue: Continuing Adventures of Detroit’s Funk & Roll Band (Part II) | | Saturday, April 14, 2001 | | · | Creating a Press Kit That Catches Their Eye | | Tuesday, April 10, 2001 | | · | How To Promote Your Music To Radio and Get Results | | Tuesday, March 13, 2001 | | · | The Cynical World Of Moses Avalon | | Tuesday, February 27, 2001 | | · | Business 101 - Getting Started |
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You Will Never Get a Record Deal
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wiki writes:
 According to an article by Bruce Warila over at UnsprungMedia.com, the days of landing a major label record deal by being "discovered" by an A&R rep and given a big, fat cash advance are 'dead over.' Record companies, like a lot of companies in Michigan these days, are slashing their payrolls of dead wood, reorganizing and re-investing. In the case of EMI, that means 1500 to 2000 jobs are done - over. That means indie bands will also have to re-think their strategies. Warila argues that they need to forget about finding a "deal" and start looking to attract investment - just like any other business. Click "read more" below for a links to three articles about investrment strategies for Indie bands.
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Five New Sites To Help You Take Over The World in 2008
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 Cortney Harding has posted a story for Billboard (Reuters wire) about five websites that are most likely to make a significant impact on how indie bands do business in 2008. New and inventive models are emerging that will help you monetize your music, find new avenues for licensing, make inter-continental collaborations more practical, find fans you never knew you had, and compete for cash and prizes. The best part? They're all free. - Mitch
Click "read more" below for the links.
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Rolling Stone Revisits The Loudness Wars
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 Robert Levine has a story over at RollingStone.com about the continuing loudness wars, the limiting of dynamic range and what RS calls, "The Death Of High Fidelity." It started in the CD era and continues in the iPod era, meaning that there is an entire generation of listeners out there who genuinely don't know what they are missing as far as sound is concerned. Are you crushing the life out of your music in order to get that volume fix? - Mitch
Click "read more" below for the link to Rolling Stone.
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David Byrne Gives Music Career Advice
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 There's a great article over at Wired Magazine called, "David Byrne's Survival Strategies For Emerging Artists - And Megastars" that should be required reading for anybody pursuing a music career in the current market. Byrne details existing and emerging label and distribution models and includes a number of graphs and even audio to fascinating conversations about the business, where it's been and where it's going. - Mitch
Click "read more" below for the link to Byrne's article.
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Detropolis To Meet This Tuesday, July 31st
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 The Detropolis Music Association will be holding its next meeting on Tuesday, July 31st 2007 at Song Garden Studios in Bellville, Mi. Detropolis is an association of musicians and music related business owners who believe that through networking, negotiation, and co-operation, individual businesses will prosper and our joint projects will be realized. The idea is to change the current spirit of competition into a model of symbiotic cooperation for all concerned. There are no membership fees and everybody is welcome. Click "read more" below for contact information and a link.
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The Ghost That Walks Reverses Time, Bears Fruit
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 Inspired by the amount of time he was wasting on the internet, electronic underground musician Paul "Ghostwalker" Bishop has committed himself to a once-a-week composition series that is intended to last an entire year.
"After wasting so much time in the last two years,
not to mention the last ten. I decided to do something about it and pull my finger out of my arse. One track a week it is then," Bishop wrote in his DetroitCity.com blog.
He began his productivity turnaround simply by flipping his daily routine into reverse. Instead of working on music after looking at websites, articles, myspace, facebook, etc.. he made it the first thing he did in his day. The result is five compositions in five weeks so far, with 48 more to go (apparently including two weeks of well-earned vacation).
Click "read more" below.
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How to stream mp3 from your site.
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 Ever wonder why mp3s don't stream from your web site? I've noticed that
many mp3 song samples on indie band sites have to be downloaded completely before they will play. MP3 can be streamed from any site if you know how to do it. The following article will detail how to
set up a streaming meta file, generate play lists and a whole lot
more. With just a little planning, your site will stream mp3s and your fans won't have to go through a 5 meg download on a dial up connection again.
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Bob Daisley: Bass Tab for Tonight
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 Seasoned pro-bassist Bob Daisley (Ozzy, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Gary Moore, Widowmaker, Yngwie Malmsteen and now of The Hoochie Coochie Men) has agreed to share his bass tab work with us here at MB (our thanks to Scott Morris of GuitarTabbooks.com for hooking us up). In Bob's first installment, he explores the E Major diatonic scale using his bass line from "Tonight", a track off Ozzy's '81 smash, "Diary of a Madman."
Click "Read More" for the tab and the story...Behind The Tab.
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You Can Play The Guitar: The Whammy Bar
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 In what we hope will be a regular Michiganbands.com feature, professional guitar instructor Scott Morris introdces you to his "You Can Play The Guitar" series. In his his first MB installment, Scott goes over the history and some techniques of the "whammy-bar". So grab your axes, settle down and dig in; it's time to do some tablature tool-shed'n. Click "Read More" below.
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 Since St. Valentine's Day is right around the corner, WWGHOST and MITCH have collaborated in their love of music and their experience in sustaining a peaceful band-life to bring you an article that celebrates the sacred bonds of music and matrimony. Click "Read More" to find out how similar the two relationships are and the problems inherent to both.
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