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• Music PR Is A Nightmare – What You Need To Know

  

  I had a bit of an epiphany today. Though I wax poetic on this blog about what it takes to make it in the music industry and how to establish yourself in your... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• What Independent Bands Still Don’t Understand About Finances

  

  One thing that makes my life extremely hard on most days is the simple fact that most of the bands I work with don’t understand the basic economics of the... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• I Was A Teenage Music Snob

  

  The writer during one night in high school.“I don’t want to feel this way forever”At the switch of the centuries I can remember the early days of downloadable... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• What Indie Bands Don’t Understand About Branding On Social Media

  

  Branding on social media is crucial to your bands success – it’s just a pity that so few bands understand what it is and how to do it well. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Why Spotify Matters and What Your Indie Band Can Do About It

  Spotify is endlessly fascinating to me because it has so many layers. There’s a whole lot to this service that I don’t think that people fully realize. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Independent Industry Figures: Tomás Doncker

  

  Independent Industry Figures is a weekly column at IMP where we do a feature on a different music industry figure every week who defines the independent music... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Most Important Article I’ve Ever Read – You Are What You Do

  

  THIS article is among the most important pieces of writing in my life, if not the most important. Yes, I have a tendency to wax poetic about how Kerouac... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• New Years Resolutions For Your Band

  

  New Years is a time for renewed hope, weird hookups, resolutions to be a better person, and perhaps most importantly, crippling hangovers. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• 5 Things Lemmy Taught Us About The Music Industry

  

  Lemmy cut an impressive figure in the music industry and it’s beautiful to see that such a wide swathe of humanity is paying tribute to the man. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Permission? Who Needs It!

  

  Asking permission is so twentieth century. In this hyper speed day and age those who sit around and wait to be told what to do or try to get permission to do... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Last Great Outlaw Is Gone: A Tribute to Lemmy

  

  I literally have no words. God is dead. There is no way around it. Somehow the unthinkable happened. Lemmy was perhaps our last great rock god, the last one... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• You Are a Businessman

  

  One of the strangest things that I’ve come to accept in recent years is that I have a hell of a lot more in common with my rather straight laced businessman... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• 5 Mistakes I’ve Made In The Music Industry

  

  There’s been a fair amount of regret in my time in the industry, and I’ve come to accept that that’s just how it goes. Now while I definitely have tried to... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Why Labels Still Matter

  

  I’ve started to get an impression from a lot of independent artists these days that record labels are a bad thing. When bands like Radiohead and Metallica... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Why Record Labels Still Matter

  

  I’ve started to get an impression from a lot of independent artists these days that record labels are a bad thing. When bands like Radiohead and Metallica... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Recovering from the Twenty First Century Hangover

  

  I think that a lot of people, especially people in bands, seem to think that they have a strong understanding of the history of popular music. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Making a Jump to Being a Music Industry Professional

  

  A lot of people who find out that I do this music industry stuff for a living have only one question for me, “How”? And it’s true – figuring out the leap from... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Soft Skills in the Music Industry

  

  One of the things that makes my life so difficult is that a lot of the services I provide as a manager, PR guy, label executive and writer are soft skills. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• DIY and You

  

  DIY culture is a fundamental part of the music industry, it’s weird to think about it that way to because, asides from being largely illegal, for so long it... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Devaluation of Music and You

  

  I recently interviewed a good friend about the state of the music industry. Something came up in our chat while recording last nights episode that I wanted to... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC