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>Sometimes Music Does Come Easy

>Having spent quite a lot of time responding to as many emails as I have time fore and even submitting a brief explanatory blog (below this entry) about downloading via the Nimbit widget in October 2009, it has most definitely paid dividends. Since that time, however, I have scoured the net for any easier ways [...]

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>"Redemption." The Album and More.

>The album “Redemption,” release date May 1st, 2010 is perhaps my most cohesive album to date in most respects. The 10-track album is comprised of consistently heavier and rougher numbers than my previous releases. Like all of my material, some of it is factual and some is fictional. Attempting to differentiate the two is a [...]

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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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"…And The Sun Refused To Shine…."

Have you ever been in that hideously frustrating situation where you have everything at your disposal to record a song or piece of music but you don’t have a song to write? The general reaction of most songwriters is to sit with pen and paper or at their computer ‘willing’ a song to emerge. This [...]

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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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>"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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>Strike Up The Band

>The only ‘constant’ in the world is change. This is pretty hard to dispute and why anyone would bother is beyond my realm of interest. I am finding, however, that people are increasingly bemoaning commercial music as all sounding the same. To an ever-increasing extent they have a valid point and it has been the [...]

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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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>Accidentally Like A Martyr

>For the purposes of this entry in which I shall be discussing the recording process measured against the end result, I’ll be talking of my own recording escapades over the last two or so At the risk of sounding patronising, which I’m not (I save that for ‘real life’), most people who listen to music [...]

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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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