I love the concept of woodshedding, a term mostly used in jazz circles to describe isolating yourself and practicing your chops. Because there are only so many hours in a day, I tend to fluctuate between playing a lot and playing none at all, and when I’m not playing, attending to the other aspects of [...]
Yesterday I was walking down 23rd St. in Manhattan and passed a guy with a band pass for the Thrash and Burn Tour hanging around his neck. He was standing next to a van with a large cargo trailer, brushing his teeth in the side mirror.
I smiled in admiration.
Thanks to constant tech innovations, there are now a million ways for the independent artist to distribute music digitally. We’ve looked at services like Tunecore and CDBaby that will get your music to many of the major players in digital music sales. And now there are a bunch of ways for the artist to sell [...]
Yesterday we began running our interview with Phil Robinson, organizer of the NY Musicians Group meetup.
Here are more of Phil’s insightful comments on marketing music and participating in the NYC music scene…
How long have you been a musician in NYC?
I’ve been a musician in NYC since I moved here five years ago. However, I [...]
I emerged from adolescence with this strange notion that the creation of art is somehow opposed to the principles of capitalism, and that the hallmark of a true artist was his capacity to embrace and suffer the injustices of poverty. This is stupid. In my mind, it suggests that artists should feel embarrassed or ashamed [...]
