Bandpage sold to YouTube. All your middlemen are for sale. Let’s do better.

Floating in Friday’s news dump jetsam was the announcement that Bandpage has been sold to YouTube. Nothing about this is particularly remarkable. A service for artists started. They took millions of…

The CASH Music Revolving Fund

An experiment we’re still defining

A fundraising plan for CASH Music

Raising money sucks. It feels off-mission, it’s easily a seven out of ten on the soul-crushing scale, and feels impossible until it just isn’t anymore.

The reality is that fundraising is a vital part of any organization. My fellowship with the…

They’re right. The era of a $19 plastic disc is over. But a beautiful object matters.

An open web starts with artists

People who fight for an open web are usually people in tech or with some deeper motivation to think about how we communicate as much as what we communicate. It’s the crowd that actually read Marshall McLuhan. Most people aren’t in that crowd. Most people don’t lose sleep…

The ten things you absolutely have to do as a working musician

1. Look.
2. Remember your career is your own.
3. Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to do anything.
4. Define your relationship with your audience…