Tag Archives: music

Podcast 3: Money 6

In which Dubber and Steve talk about their newfound wealth, experiments with pricing and the economics and sociology of music (and other things) online. Mentioned in this podcast: Steve’s New Album: Believe in Peace Dubber’s new book: Music in the Digital Age Dubber’s blog post: Why my book is free – and why it costs [...]

Amateur nonsense 93

This is not an ad. Well, yes – obviously it’s an ad, but Microsoft have not paid me to place this here. I bring you this just to spark a discussion about the endgame of music performance and production in the digital age. Because although this is absolutely excruciating (I struggled to make it right [...]

Demo on CD or mp3? 12

First of all, let’s dispense with the word “demo”. Stop using it. What you have made is a promo. These days, the word ‘demo’ has acquired connotations of “not as good as it would be if we had a decent budget and could play our instruments properly”. Having sorted that one out – the format [...]

Can the internet help improve my playing? 14

Not everyone who reads this website is ready to record or release an album. I’m impressed by the number of emails I get from people who have stumbled across this site shortly after finding themselves in their first band. And not everyone plays everything as well as they’d like to be able to. The best [...]