by Steve Grossman | Sep 21, 2006 | Blog, Career
Dreaming of stardom can be a trap. I’m all for following you heart, and I believe that the biggest challenge facing mankind is small thinking, but even so, dreaming of stardom often traps musicians and artists into dead end lives of quiet desperation. Why?...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 19, 2006 | Blog, Career
I linked to a GREAT post today on a blog called beetlegrass. Written by a freelance illustrator who is celebrating 17 years of working on her own. In honor of that milestone, she has passed along 17 things that she’s “learned over the past years, listed in...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 17, 2006 | Blog, Career
As a rule, most musicians can’t make up their minds about money. On the one hand they want to be a star and make lots of it but on the other hand, they’d rather starve than “sell out” their creativity. The fact that our entire society is...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 8, 2006 | Blog, Career
Two days ago, I wrote about SellaBand, a stock exchange type service that helps fund recording projects for musicians. In that post, I suggested that anyone could do this if they tried hard enough. It just got easier… Introducing Fundable, a business designed to...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 7, 2006 | Blog, Career
Two huge music publishing companies merged today to become ONE huge publishing company. I’m posting about this only because if you’re going to make a living in the industry, you should know what’s going on, and this article has a lot of information...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 5, 2006 | Blog, Career
I’ve struggled and struggled with what to say to begin this post, so I’m offering the following choices. Please pick one for yourself: – If you had any doubt that the age of the big music company was over, read on. – Tired of being a starving...
