My past few columns have been themed around a certain subject or type of artist. This wasn’t intentional. Instead, it seemed that once I found one Christmas album or EP release, I found two, then three, and then I had […]
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If you read that headline and shook your head sadly, please know that I am a kindred spirit. I too feel a little of myself die every time I go into a big box store in September only to find […]
In my last column, I explored three established artists who chose to crowdfund their new albums to retain creative control. Little did I know that, soon after I turned my draft in for that column, what is shaping up to […]
I recently read Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist and was struck by how, behind a veil of excellent humor, Fisher made it clear that the three principal actors in Star Wars did not reap the financial rewards of the surprise […]
I got my start as a music journalist covering the festival scene. In that job, I interviewed a lot of smaller-name artists who spoke about the things they did to their setlist to draw “walk up traffic” to their show. […]
Crowdfunding has opened up the music business to people who would never have been able to make an album before, allowing more regional artists to tap into their smaller but passionate fan base to get their album made. But for […]
I normally keep Crowdfunding Radar a forward-looking column. Once an album is funded and released, it’s in the hands of No Depression‘s team of reviewers. But this week, I want to break that trend a bit because, in the same […]
Like most fans, I got a kick out of The Milk Carton Kids’ send-up of Americana’s “big tent” philosophy at last year’s AMA Awards Show with their song “What Even Is Americana Anyway?” But I’ve never really had a problem […]
They say adversity creates opportunity, and that appears to be true in the world of crowdfunding. With the hopefully temporary implosion of PledgeMusic, there are few crowdfunding sites purely dedicated to music. Enter Bandcamp. Already a proven site for back-end […]
A question I often get from people reading this column is “why in the world does that moderately successful artist need to crowdfund?” There are usually two answers to that question. For truly successful artists, it’s a sign of the […]
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