cool music site: Bob Baker’s Indie Music Promotion Blog

I just took Berkleemusic’s Music Marketing 101 course, taught by Bob Baker – and I loved it, by the way – so I have started revisiting a lot of Bob’s sites and online resources over the past three months. This is one of my favorites – a blog focused on “news, notes, and ideas on music marketing, self-promotion, artist empowerment and more”.

A recent post that was very usable: Five Music Website Design Tips – including a lot of great links, and since we just started the process of redesigning and overhauling our entire site, this is a timely resource. Another cool characteristic: the blog has been going for quite a while, and there is an extensive archive of past blog posts, very much worth browsing. And since it’s a dreary, rainy, lazy Sunday afternoon here – that’s what I am going to be doing.

Happy surfing!

cool blog: the long tail

The Long Tail is a fantastic blog by Chris Anderson, the Wired-editor who became famous with his groundbreaking article “The Long Tail” – and with the book that followed. If you have not read it, you should. Anderson’s theory changes a lot for independent musicians, and opens lots of doors that previously were firmly locked.