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There are a number of blogs out there about how to be successful as a musician in this Media 2.0 world where music recordings are, in a practical sense, basically free. How do you make money, or at least manage to keep going? It's a big topic, but it's difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff out there, especially since there have been no shortage of snake-oil salesmen looking to take advantage of disparate and/or naive wannabe indie musicians with too good to be true schemes and ... more

My third solo show was my best yet. I'm starting to figure my sound out. I had decided to try to let a little bit of folkiness through and strip things down further. Some of this is from observations from the tour. I never used to much go for the solo artist with just guitar and vocals thing. Maybe it's just my tastes changing a bit as I get older, maybe I'm mellowing out or something, but on the tour with Sam I saw singer-songwriters in a variety of configurations: the kin... more

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An awesome post by Lispy recently outlined a set of mental/personality traits that he saw in his "friend" (i.e. himself) that he perceived as setting him apart from the majority and that often frustrated him in his work, and sought advice for how best to work with his seemingly weird mind. It got posted to a few social-bookmark sites and drew a bunch of attention, much of it from others in the programming profession, and what became apparent in the comments discussions seem... more