There’s a great interview with Tom Silverman from Tommyboy Entertainment on the Musician Coaching blog. Some of the key inflammatory quotes include…

In 2008 there were only 112 (albums) that sold over a quarter of a million. So if you think that the major labels only make money – they can’t justify their existence at the size

Steve Lawson was one of the panelists at Un-Convention this year on a panel of musicians and artists who had carved out unusual careers for themselves in the ever changing music world. Steve is an extremely respected bass player who as well as doing session work also plays solo bass sets which he himself describes as a concept sounding more like a dare than a gig.

By far one… Continue reading

One of the things that we’ve touched upon on Indielab is how to finance your album project. We saw recently how some bands are really getting creative about finding money for recording and marketing themselves. Hamfatter hit up the Dragons Den for £75,000 to finance the release of their next record and against all the odds actually got the money! It seems amazing that in a… Continue reading