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I think that a lot of people don’t understand how much of this job can be research. Large chunks of my time spent in the music industry just involve reading articles about marketing or social media or keeping up with the news. In fact I would go so far as to say that this is...
by MATT BACON > So I wrote a piece a little while ago about the inherent wealth kind of required to even be in a DIY band. But after a lot of frustration today I wanted to spend some time talking about how being a goddamn adult is always going to help you be able...
by MATT BACON > Dealing with bad reviews is always a battle. No one wants to have to come to terms with a bad review and how it reflects upon their band. However a lot of bands react to a bad review in the worst possible way and this only leaves them open to more...
Editors Note: Going back to this article I realize that this was about the moment touring broke my spirit. Enjoy. You’re not going to get as much work done on tour as you thought you would. That’s just a brutal reality. As we close down on this tour, with a mere 33 hours to go,...
There is an art to finding a place to sleep with your band for the night. It’s something I’ve been lucky enough to get really good at over the past week – to the point that the only hotel we are going to need in the first nine days of touring is tonight on our...
THIS article is among the most important pieces of writing in my life, if not the most important. Yes, I have a tendency to wax poetic about how Kerouac changed my life or how TS Eliot ‘Really gets it man, you know what I mean?’ but neither of those authors, nor any of the others I...
I’m a serial concertgoer. I work full time in the music industry and part of this involves going to three to five shows in a week. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that I’ve seen over five hundred bands in the last calendar year – and yeah, I love it, but certain bits make...
Entitlement. Now there’s a scary word that a lot of people, not just musicians, don’t like to think about too much. For a generation born to free content and instant gratification it’s sometimes hard to consider a world where one might have to wait and work to achieve ones goals. Now, I’m not trying to...
I don’t know about you, but these days when somebody draws reference to the “music industry” or “the business” I cringe a little. In fact, the “inner goings-on” of any world dominating business induces images of shadowy silhouettes devoid of all emotion, reacting only to the sound of a “kerching” – Although it’s quite possible...
