Marketing guru Seth Godin recently sat down with Derek Sivers of Sivers.org to not only promote his new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, but drop science and tie in his philosophy of a linchpin economy to musicians giving away great tunes online and getting only apathy in return. Among his thoughts: “Very good music is  Read more »

Pat Metheny might be my favorite living guitarist.  I’ve seen him fifteen times in concert since I wondered who the hell was playing those seemingly cheesy Weather Channel songs.  I dug a little deeper, found out most of his tunes weren’t easy listening crap, and have been hooked ever since.
Yesterday morning I logged onto Spotify  Read more »

At SoundCtrl, we support independent music.  It’s hard out there and if you wanna go DIY, we respect you.  This year the judges for the IMAs were some of my favorite musicians around including Tom Waits, The Black Keys, and M. Ward, so this year I especially payed extra special attention to the awards.
And the  Read more »