MADE

The kind of person you are is undoubtedly the most important factor when it comes to success in the modern music business. Of course, there’s always been some truth to that. In any area for that matter. Making it has always demanded hard work and an iron will. These values are now more relevant than [...]

Remember that JK Wedding entrance video that was going viral several weeks ago? Well, apparently we were duped, sort of. The video itself is real. The wedding is real. The nice people in it are real. But the stratospheric number of views aren’t fully real. The culprit? You guessed it. The criminal fucks at Sony [...]

The media reporting on the health care townhalls all across America raises some very interesting parallels to music marketing. If you watch the pushing and shoving that’s been going on at these things (especially on Fox News) you get the impression that there’s this huge anti-health care reform grass roots movement forming underneath our feet.
But [...]

This issue isn’t as simple as you may think. There are too many people out there who spend years working on something only to discover too late that it’s not what they really love. That’s a dangerous situation to be in because time is one thing you can’t recoup in life.
I know too many music [...]

I get quite a bit of spam in my inbox. I don’t mind the kind of spam that’s funny. There’s two kinds of spam I regularly get that crack me up. The first is the Nigerian scam spam. You’ve gotten them. They’re the ones that tell you there’s an immediate opportunity to partner up with [...]

One guy on Twitter recently posted an interesting question. Actually, it was more of a statement. He said, “Who in their right mind would want to be a musician in this environment?” I though to myself, who wouldn’t? I think there’s no better time to be an indie music artist than right now.
Obviously, the thrust [...]

You gotta love it. You and I are now the kingmakers. We have more influence over Chris Brown’s life than either Chris Brown or his record label. Well, by you and I, I don’t necessarily mean you and I literally. I mean you and I the masses of “regular” people. The people that matter.
There’s plenty [...]