Top 5 Things I Learned from “We Are The Music Makers” on Reddit

1) Do Nothing but Build Your Buzz First There are plenty of great bands out there that DON’T have an album or recorded songs released who can still draw people out to a show. Through word of mouth, social media and by having an engaging live performance you can actually gain an audience without investing in … Continue reading Top 5 Things I Learned from “We Are The Music Makers” on Reddit →

I Spent $20,000 Making an Album I Can’t Even Give Away

"What was I thinking!?" It was the logical next step for my band Living Illusion. We had played tons of local shows, did some minor touring and gained a little buzz, so we decided it was time to get serious. Our first album was an experiment more than anything and considering it was self recorded … Continue reading I Spent $20,000 Making an Album I Can’t Even Give Away →

Production Value VS Content Substance: The Importance of Understanding Your Audience

Lately I have been getting into a lot of discussions with people regarding the ever increasing affordability of high quality digital audio production. This has sparked a lot of questions as to where the value of recorded music lies to the consumer in the 21st century. Production value had always been a deciding factor in … Continue reading Production Value VS Content Substance: The Importance of Understanding Your Audience →

Posting to Facebook through Twitter, TweetDeck, Hootsuite & other Third Party Apps

So I've always had a hunch that there was something wrong with Facebook whenever I used a third party app to post my Facebook statuses. For some reason whenever I used something other than the inherent functionality within FB my post always seem to get buried. I at one time even unhooked my Twitter integration to … Continue reading Posting to Facebook through Twitter, TweetDeck, Hootsuite & other Third Party Apps →

Content in the Digital Age: Music

Oh music. The first industry in my eyes that had to deal with the massive digital shift, which occurred with a compressed file size that was manageable and share-able on the internet in the late 90's among people with dial-up 5.6kb internet connections. Music has been discussed to death with the file-sharing issues the industry … Continue reading Content in the Digital Age: Music →