Twitter is an ever-more-popular social networking tool for people and companies to use to send messages and stay in touch with people. If you’re not familiar with twitter, it’s basically like the status line of Facebook, but with some extra (very minimal) messaging components.
A lot of people are using twitter to stay in touch and talk (including a lot of bands), so there are usually a lot of conversations flying around, all of which are publicly accessible.
The interesting part about this is that twitter gives you the ability to …

Take a listen to this audio clip. Be Careful, the sound (if you can hear like a teenager) is loud and annoying (it’s not called a mosquito ringtone for nothing). You may want to turn down your computer speakers and turn up gradually to test a comfortable sound level.
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What do you hear? If you don’t hear anything, you’re not alone.. and you’re probably over the age of 25. If you can hear it, then you likely find it fairly annoying.
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If you’re like the average person who makes music, and unless you have a record label behind you (and even if you do), you probably spend a lot of time trying to market your music on the internet. You have a Myspace page, a Reverb Nation page, and maybe even a website (or >gasp< a blog!).
Arguably, the road to success as a musician or musical group passes through the internet. One of the most effective methods of building a fan base that will buy your music and see …

This is not going to be your normal, run-of-the-mill remix contest.
Background: Around 10 years ago, two Russian artists named Komar and Melamid paid to hire a market research firm to find out the American public’s likes and dislikes in art. They wanted to know what works, but moreover they wanted to know what doesn’t work. They began with visual art, and then moved on to music. As it says on their website:
In an age where opinion polls and market research invade almost every aspect of our …

Vinyl is booming.  There was one year about 10 years ago that I heard that one model of turntable (Technics 1200′s) outsold all models of electric guitars combined.  The industry died down a bit after that, but recently vinyl has seen a resurgence and has been setting sales records (no pun intended).
I’ve released my own records in the past, and thought that I would share some of my experiences in the hopes that it may give you some ideas or insight into how it all works.  Please …