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Finally an Artist HOWTO for Bands!

For the longest time I've wanted to write something like an Artist HOWTO that tells aspiring bands about the crooks who run the music industry. Things like not accepting a recording contract, keeping rights to your masters and all sorts of wisdom that aspiring artists should know about trying to be an artist in the age of the Internet. But, I am not a musical artist, so I don't have a complete picture required to actually write this, so I never pursued it.

Fortunately David Byrne has written this Artist HOWTO!

David lays out the realities of the music industry and outlines what models will work on the net. He's included lots and lots of good quotes from people who tell it like it is. This is simply the best concise wrap-up of the state of the industry today. Read it!

2007 may be the year the music industry broke. But the new music industry is already here -- we've been building it for the last 10 years!

Posted by Mayhem at December 20, 2007 04:53 PM