Recent signings, CD sales were up in 2021, and Bandcamp has been acquired.
Author: Jason Muxlow
Founder of this here publication and guitarist for Witchcryer (Ripple Music) and The Living Fields (Candlelight Records). Also ex-Earthen Grave (Ripple) and Wintering (RIP, little death metal band). Michigan born, Chicago aged, and currently residing just outside of Austin, TX.
CD sales are up
The RIAA’s 2021 Year End Music Industry Revenue Report has been released, and shows music sales rising strongly for the second straight year, plus a surprising bump in CD sales. Audiophile publisher John Darko has a great article breaking it all down.
Recent US signings
20 Buck Spin signs Hulder – Black Metal Atomic Fire signs Incite – Groove/Thrash – Phoenix, AZ Global Rock Records signs Burning Starr (Jack Starr) – Power metal Metal Blade signs Cognitive – Death Metal – New Jersey Nuclear Blast signs Downset -Rap/Hardcore – Los Angeles, CA Prosthetic Records signs Sunrot – Sludge – New Jersey Prosthetic…
The twisted, tangled wiring of music publishing
A non-legal primer on the pieces and players of music publishing, the pitfalls of greed, and how to to avoid a lot of pain.
A decade back, my band got a small deal and we hired entertainment lawyer (and King Missile vocalist) John Hall from Heraty Law to explain the contracts to us. The first was the record contract, the second was a publishing contract. Those conversations and emails with John were my introduction to music publishing, and while…
Extreme Radio in a Digital Age
Hearing that song on the radio can still be a magical, transformative experience.
As a kid in the early 1970’s I lived in San Francisco. My parents were music fans in general but they didn’t have an extensive collection of albums. When we listened to music it was on a cheaply produced Panasonic radio made from molded black plastic with a built in tape deck and that one…
Into the rabbit hole of internet radio tech
Kicking around the germ of this article with Sebastian led me down a rabbit hole that seems worth sharing. None of it really seems actionable for musicians, but it was definitely interesting. This is definitely not intended to convince anyone to go start a radio station. If anything, it should deter the idea.
Daniel Stanton
Dee Snider’s manager on life in the fast lane and the devil’s time.
Daniel Stanton is the brains behind Coallier Entertainment, a New York-based full-service artist management company whose whose client list has included over the years Dee Snider, Adrenaline Mob, Loudness, Foreigner, Dee Snider, Bonnie Tyler, Lizzy Borden, Joey Belladonna, Sebastian Bach, Jeff Scott Soto, Steven Adler, KILLCODE, Adam and the Metal Hawks…the list goes on and…
How bands get played on internet radio
Gimme Radio Brian Turner, Program Director: “Generally it’s an open field. We will air hugely known bands as well as completely unknown. [The] only criteria is that the band has something original to say, and is coming from a pure place, as faithful to or as outside the lines of what’s traditional in the past…
Ben Rohmsdahl
The new album from Denver’s Of Feather and Bone is pummeling stuff and sounds terrific, thanks in part to tracking done by Ben Rohmsdahl at his new space, Juggernaut Audio. Ben’s credits go back to his time on guitar in Denver’s Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, who put out an LP and…
Dan Klein
Drummer, producer and studio owner on working with bands, drumming for hire, and the importance of pre-production before starting a session.
The Rock Spot on the south side of Chicago was a meat packing plant in a previous life, but today it’s home to a large number of musicians and artists. Deep in the building’s labyrinth of hallways, Dan Klein has turned a 400 sq ft concrete room with tall ceilings into a comfortable single-room studio…