As CD sales and label profits tumble, a great deal of hope and excitement has been attached to a variety of new models: Music Is Free – And hope to make money elsewhere Name The Price – Radiohead asks the fans to pay whatever they want D.I.Y. – The artist is the label handling or [...]
How To Jerk An Artist By, Wendy Day (www.RapCoalition.org and http://www.rap-coa;ition.com) I’ve seen so many people get jerked in the 17 years that I have been pulling artists out of bad deals. And I have been vocal (for free) about how artists can protect themselves from getting jerked by less than savory managers and production [...]
How did we get over 14,000 downloads in 48 hours? Last Friday, I spoke with Mack Maine and he told me his upcoming mixtape with Don Cannon, “This Is Just A Mixtape” is finally going to be released and he wanted to get some buzz going around it. Maine and I go back a [...]
