Balanced Breakfast San Francisco. Photo credit: Jared Swanson You know what this industry is lacking? Community. A true community spirit where people want to help each other because they genuinely care, because they want to see one another succeed, and because they recognize that we all need each other. We need more people willing to help out because it's the right thing to do, because we all need help sometimes. And we need less people...
Yesterday I stumbled across an excellent article by Adam Bernard called 7 Reasons Why You Should Be Pitching Smaller Music Blogs. As both a publicist and owner of a small music blog, the title caught me instantly. Within just a few hours of sharing it on social media, it was getting a ton of attention from not only my industry friends, but artists as well. For the first time in a long time, I felt like a positive change in the industry might be...
The truth is for every artist out there fighting for a spot to the top, there’s hundreds of thousands more vying for the same thing. And it’s not just talent that makes you stand apart, or even who you know, but rather how you treat those you know. How you foster and grow relationships is everything. We’ve all heard of nepotism in the industry, and while it’s a word that’s quick to boil the blood of hard working musicians...