In this series I will discuss the good and the bad of one indie artist’s recent first-time-experience, opening for an international touring act (Andrew Bird). For purposes of anonymity,  we will call him Bob. Below begins the first of Bob’s blunders – a merch table disaster. Opening for Andrew Bird was arguably Bob’s most significant [...]

In this Spazzcast listeners will discover a new approach to funding their next music project. Indie rocker Andy Zipf, who “believes that music isn’t something that’s meant to be encapsulated, homogenized and programmed into a commercially viable product,” describes how his business model raised $45k to produce The Long Tail with industry veteran James Barber [...]

Many musicians create a twitter account and give up on it rather quickly. Nielsen reports a 60% twitter quitter rate within the first month of using the service.  Another study, by Rapleaf, shows that 65% of tweets originate from the web interface (as opposed to from mobile phones or desktop applications). Musicians only using the [...]