by Steve Grossman | Sep 28, 2006 | Blog, Career
As a professional musician, I was often questioned about “job security.” The conversation always centered around insurance, benefits and a “steady paycheck.” I always understood their points (and their concerns), but my dream of succeeding...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 27, 2006 | Blog
When I was a drummer, I played drums in the music business. My simple understanding of my reality was that I did something that a lot of other people did in a very large industry that was set in its ways. Simply put, I was a commodity – by definition, an...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 25, 2006 | Blog, Career
Something a little different for today, and more of the same too: Ultimate Ears is a great tool you should investigate if you’re at all concerned about your ears (and you SHOULD be). Go check it out. It is also yet ANOTHER example of how you can make money in...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 23, 2006 | Blog, Career
In my last post, I used the following quote from Yahoo Finance to discuss the head in the sand mentality of the record labels. “Free — and legal — music Universal Music Group has licensed its digital music catalog to a new Web site offering free...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 23, 2006 | Blog
From a recent collection of business headlines at Yahoo Finance: “Free — and legal — music Universal Music Group has licensed its digital music catalog to a new Web site offering free legal downloads. The site — SpiralFrog — plans to make...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 22, 2006 | Blog, Marketing
“Prior to the Web, bands that didn’t have a major label behind them couldn’t hope to get national or global attention.” So starts a recent post from Web Ink Now decribing yet another example of how the music business is increasingly fractured...
