Over the past week, we’ve been collaborating with our friends at WeAllMakeMusic.com, Tight Mix, Mic Control, The Musician’s Guide to World Domination, and Rockethub to praise some of the great things that were done by and for independent musicians in 2010.
Here is the recap!
1) On Monday, I kicked things off by highlighting some of the innovative touring tactics that caught my attention over the last year.
2) Then Chris Bracco, writer and founder of music industry blog Tight Mix, analyzed a few of the most promising music start-ups.
3) On Tuesday, Jon Ostrow of Mic Control took a look at how artists have used music videos in innovative ways.
4) Then Marcus Taylor of The Musician’s Guide analyzed some interesting online marketing strategies that seemed promising for DIY musicians.
5) On Wednesday, Max Willens from WeAllMakeMusic.com talked about emerging technologies that will help shape the new music business.
6) Then Rockethub co-founder Brian Meece discussed some of the year’s most memorable crowd-funding moments.
7) And where would a best-of list be without a worst-of section? We kept things mostly positive, but c’mon! There is just as much to learn from the failures. So here is what happened on Thursday.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.