As I write this edition of Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week, it’s been raining almost constantly for a week. While it makes getting anything done outside a bit problematic, it does lend itself to some discovery of new music. Fortunately, […]
While sites like PledgeMusic and Kickstarter are referred to generically as “crowdfunding” sites, the popularity of this style of buying has led to them broadening. There are still a number of traditional “I need to raise this amount of money […]
As I write this week’s column, we’re a few hours away from the 2018 Grammy Awards, and already we’ve seen the inevitable flood of articles writing the obituary for guitar-driven music as pop and hip hop dominate the awards season. […]
With the holidays over, things are starting to pick back up in the crowdfunding world. There’s an abundance of both new music and classic re-issues on offer. We have both in this week’s edition of Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week, […]
It’s my first Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week column of 2018 and I’m reminded of the phrase thrown around every new year; “Out with the old and in with the new.” While the major crowdfunding sites began with that phrase […]
As the year comes to a close and publications (including No Depression) begin to release their list of favorite albums of the year, many artists are already looking forward to 2018. With the summer tour season completed, the crowdfunding sites […]
A lot of virtual ink has been dedicated over the years to the term Americana, and specifically the Americana Music Association’s “big tent” approach that takes not only the genre’s country roots into account but also “roots” music from across […]