In 2019, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi released There Is No Other. In addition to being a great album (ND review), it’s also as concise a mission statement for Giddens’ life work as there can be. Throughout her career […]
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My favorite line from one of the best albums of 2021, Aaron Lee Tasjan’s Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, is “May the guitar rest in peace before it’s dead once more.” It’s a fun little dig at the once-every-three-years or so […]
I’ve always felt that music was a much more reliable teller of history than any texts. Texts are written by the winners. Songs are written by the subclasses. As great as Ken Burns is as a historian, even his […]
The saying goes “A change is as good as a rest.” I disagree overall, being a big fan of rest, but sometimes change can be refreshing. That’s why, in my browsing for crowdfunding campaigns to feature, I always have […]
For most of 2020 and all of 2021, independent artist-oriented site Bandcamp ran its “Bandcamp Fridays,” where they waived their fees on the first Friday of the month, sending approximately 93% of the money spent at the site to […]
Over the past couple of weeks, some unexpected names have dominated the news cycle: not Beyonce or Taylor, as you’d expect in awards season, but Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. If you aren’t familiar with the Young/Spotify dustup (and […]
One of the more persistent myths about crowdfunding campaigns is that the only people who use them are young regional acts who “can’t get a label” or lifelong club warriors who “can’t get a label.” That myth couldn’t be […]
Over my years of doing Crowdfunding Radar, there have been weeks when there just haven’t been many interesting new campaigns launched and, in those times, I’ve been very thankful for the broad tastes of roots music fans, which gives […]
Around the turn of the year, the flow of album releases slows down. Artists and labels wisely don’t want to have to compete with holiday news and holiday budgets, nor do they want to compete for press with the […]
One of the first Todd Snider songs I heard was “Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues.” For those unfamiliar, the song satirizes the dying days of grunge, when it started to be consumed by the same excesses that helped it […]
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