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>After He Took From You Everything He Could Steal

>You may or may not have noticed that it has been some time since my last entry in this blog; a blog that has been quite painful to write in places. Fear not, dear reader. This entry addresses my activities after my lengthy battle with alcohol abuse (namely vodka) and realising that had I carried [...]

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Rock Musician Bob Findlay Releases His First Book

Online Music Traps A comprehensive guide to the online music industry & how independent musicians can make an impact without the numerous costly ‘traps.’ This versatile ebook has been specifically designed to cater for musicians of all levels & genres & concludes with a sequential scenario which can be easily adapted to suit your own [...]

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>Come Gather Round People, Wherever You Roam.

>Not many musicians actually start off with the notion of making a career out of it but when the remotest of possibility of this becoming real occur, people tend to literally lose their minds. All of a sudden they begin to dress differently, speak differently, behave differently and worst of all treat people differently, depending [...]

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>How The Other Half Live

> With so much commercially available music on the internet today it is very easy for ones’ perception to be skewed, particularly among the younger generation. Big name artists such as Metallica, Pink, Coldplay and Robbie Williams greet you at every turn, not only on the sites of major distributors, but also in ads on [...]

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Through A Glass Onion

Image via Wikipedia With so much commercially available music on the internet today it is very easy for ones’ perception to be skewed, particularly among the younger generation. Big name artists such as Metallica, Pink, Coldplay and Robbie Williams greet you at every turn, not only on the sites of major distributors, but also in [...]

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>"Streets Are Filled, With Broken Hearts…."

> Over the weekend I was reading a local brochure through abject boredom and headed straight to the page advertising what used to be called stereos. Nowadays they’re called players, which is fair enough. I was immediately struck by two factors. The first was the visual factor that ‘black is the new black.’ Every player [...]

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>"Broken Words, Never Meant To Be Spoken…."

>When the new ReverbNation webstore finally arrived I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. They have partnered with Audiolife to make the store possible, but not in the for people were led to believe. Admittedly ReverbNation did not directly state that artists would be able to sell directly from the site but they came [...]

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>"Broken Idols, Broken Heads…."

>Sooner than I expected, iLike and “other partners” are enabling Google to make it easier for music listeners to find, listen to and buy music. Sounds great, eh? It is great for listeners. For the independent artist it’s not quite so great. By having ones’ music on iLike doesn’t necessarily mean that its’ available for [...]

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>"Pay For Your Ticket And Don’t Complain."

> Until recent times indipendent musicians, unless they have a truckload of cash behind them, have had very limited control over the release of their material. Keen to have their music made available to the widest possible audience they ‘climb aboard’ the major distributors without giving much thought to alternative options. iLike ‘recommends’ to artists [...]

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