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.

cool idea: three things

I love this blog: New Music Strategies. And I am going to start incorporating this post.

The basic idea: For now, just pick three things that you need to get done, jot them down — and then do them tomorrow.

Why on a music resources blog? Because this is applicable – especially for independent musicians who also try to be their own booking agents, publicists, managers, producers, and so on, and so on, and so on.

cool music resources

I am a singer, musician, songwriter, booking manager, publisher, marketing manager, publicist – in short, I have my own band and music is my life. It’s a lot easier to do all these things, to get your music out there and manage your own band, in this era of the Internet and technology. There are thousands of fantastic websites, social networking sites, blog, books, podcasts, ebooks, articles out there – the problem is not that it isn’t there, it is finding the right resource for you. Now, that is probably a very individual process, and on size definitely does not fit all, but as someone who tries to find helpful tools and resources about music and the music business I know that when I find a book, website, podcast that I like a lot usually other musicians love it too.

So…. the reason for this blog? To find and post one cool link or resource per day. It can be a website, a title of a book, a podcast, another blog, an online article – but it somehow has to relate to music and the music business. I’ll post it – it will be a nice reference for myself, and a good discipline – and I hope that perhaps some other musicians and music lovers will find this helpful as well.