A Song A Day

This is obviously a very sad and misguided decision, and sets a worrying precedent. The RIAA are probably very pleased with themselves - but they shouldn’t be. All the reports of this case, aside from the cowardly neutral - sorry, independent - reporting of the likes of Billboard, are leading with the words “single mother” […]

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So, I can finally reveal the reason why A Song A Day hasn’t exactly been the most regular of blogs recently. I’ve been working on a new campaign for Last.fm entitled Now Form A Band. It’s a “campaign for better music” that we hope will kickstart a new DIY music revolution.
As the founders state […]

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The final part of my interview with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon Drop records.
6. How do you go about finding bands to sign? or is it just friends’ bands at the moment?
At the moment, the bands are all friends of Charlie in some way, or in the […]

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Part three of my interview with with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon Drop records.
5. What’s the best advice you could give to a band looking to promote themselves online?
Get yourself out there anyway you can, be nice to people who have taken time out of their lives […]

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Part two of my interview with with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon Drop records.
3. What are you offering the bands who sign to you?
Bands that sign to us get their album recorded should they need that, but mainly our bands get to be a part of something […]

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I’ll be back posting more general music stuff here soon, and there will be a special announcement related to Last.fm in a few days, which will explain why I’m no longer updating so much here. In the meantime…
I conducted an interview with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon […]

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In the Guardian, Will Hodgkinson continues to make a mess of running his DIY label, Big Bertha Records. This is all fun and games I suppose, but running a label is undoubtedly one of the toughest projects you can undertake - and he does seem to be making some ludicrous decisions!
He’s keen to point out […]

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A few months ago I was approached by an A&R who was interested in signing me to a new, supposedly ‘revolutionary’ digital-only record label called Red Skin Records. Dubious as always, I got on the phone to the label boss and picked his brains for about an hour, to try and work out what I […]

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Here’s the second part of my interview with Andrew Dubber from New Music Strategies:
Do you think subscription stream-on-demand models are the best option for the industry? If not, what would be your ideal model for the future of music consumption?
The answer here, as with most things to do with the online music environment is ‘Well, […]

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I interviewed Andrew Dubber of the excellent New Music Strategies last week, and received some fascinating and insightful responses to questions concerning online promotion for musicians, future distribution models - and how the RIAA could dig themselves out the hole they’ve got themselves into. Here’s the first part:
What would be your advice for new artists […]

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