Social Media first principles for Musicians Pt 3 - going Mobile.

If Spotify Is The New Radio, The Artists Are Winning
There were a few articles kicking around yesterday touting a figure that ‘Lady Gaga earned $167 from Spotify for over a million plays’ - I think the story originated on TorrentFreak. Perhaps not surprisingly the writers

Lily Allen Invents The Criminal Commons License
Wow, now this one we didn’t expect! Lily Allen, following her heartfelt protestations that Mandelson’s plans to cut off the internet connections of ‘persistent file sharers’ were destroying opportunities for hard-working r

Live In Nebraska EP Now On Bandcamp
Finally! Thanks to a little help from a friend who had the CD (we sold out of them ages ago, and didn’t have any left to get the high-res files from!), We’ve now got the Steve Lawson and Lobelia EP up on Bandcamp. As you know, I’m a huge fan of Bandcamp, and it now handles physical CD sales as well!

Rethinking Reviews
I’ve been asked a few times recently to write reviews of people’s albums. Not by magazines or websites who want it as journalism, but by the artists themselves, wanting it as promo. Now, let’s leave money aside for now (given that paid journalism is a whole other subject – yes, magazines, I’ll write reviews for you, if you pay me

Share and Share Alike.
A wise man once said, ‘do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.’ Advice that works incredibly well online. In my wanderings round the web, I’m seeing two very distinct groups of musicians. Those who are part of a sharing/discovery/recommendation culture, and