No, but congratulations to the next Autotune- and Photoshop-polished pop star.   Move ‘em units for the record company!

RIP: Lena Horne, 1917-2010.
SP: Billy Corgan has hired Nicole Fiorentino to be the latest Smashing Pumpkins bass player.  There seems to be a demographic pattern for many of Corgan’s replacement bandmates, but hopefully that is just a minor issue when it comes to their latest studio (and live) output.  Besides, new SP drummer Mike Byrne [...]

One of the common themes of this blog is the overall staleness of the current mainstream popular music market (Music/Recording Industry 1.0, as I usually call it).  For my fellow music-makers, here are a couple of quick tips:
1. Look to history for some inspiration. There’s a wealth of public domain sheet music to incorporate into [...]

If you didn’t know this already, you do now:  AmazonMP3 puts an album at deep discount every day.  It’s usually at the top-ish left corner of the page, linked above.  When these deals started, the discounts and album selections were amazing!  It was great to purchase a classic album of any genre for $0.99 or [...]

This is just a quick rant for this week.  I’ve been thinking about what exactly is a band versus a solo project “doing business as” a pseudonymous band-like name.  I am agreeing more and more with the opinion that the more “glamorous” parts of making music (singing, instrument heroics [like lead guitar], songwriting, being the [...]

We at Auderamos have signed up to various music news mailing lists (even though we don’t quite post here often enough to relay some of the news).  Sometimes, we get “spam” from record companies that access these mailing lists (usually the allaccess.com mailing list), advertising various recording artists and their latest singles.  Many times it’s [...]

Two quick notes for this week:
The truth regarding the JC/BC split? A recent Rolling Stone feature on Billy Corgan shed some more information on the Smashing Pumpkins’ bandleader’s mindset, but mostly created lots of concern among the Pumpkins’ fan community.  This community is unique in that it not only consists of die-hard pro-Corgan fans, but [...]

Yesterday, we posted the YouTubers’ version of “We Are the World” at Videramos.

Virtually all of the above performers have their own fan base.  That’s good.  Unfortunately, I’m fairly certain that some of these artists have aspirations for a 20th century-style record deal.  This isn’t to fully discredit the 20th century way of doing things, for [...]

A lot of Music Industry 2.0 involves interacting with your audience one way or another, more than just relying on the old 20th century recording industry to hype your wares (or their wares, if you make such a deal).  The most efficient way to do that is by pulling off a kick ass show.  In [...]