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Not All Artists Who Wander Are Lost. The Hidden Value in Doing Nothing.

Location: The Mystic Lodge in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It was 18 degrees outside but the wind chill made it feel closer to zero. I was struggling to breathe as the swirling winds were pushing the smoke from the woodstove back down through the top of the Teepee…

Music

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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost. The Hidden Value in Doing Nothing.
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost. The Hidden Value in Doing Nothing.

Nov 15, 2021

The Compass Method — Finding Meaning in Logo Design

I grew up in a shallow and tranquil valley in upstate New York, five miles west of the village of Cooperstown in a sleepy hamlet called Fly Creek. My childhood property home takes up the southern half of a short side road named Fork Shop Road. The banks of Oaks…

Logo Design

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The Compass Method — Finding Meaning in Logo Design
The Compass Method — Finding Meaning in Logo Design

Sep 16, 2021

The Artist Detox (Part 2)

Growth through Limiting — Chaos. A word that could accurately describe life as an artist. Try to find a career path with more uncertainty, with a greater breadth of highs and lows. It is also an accurate reflection of where we are as a society. Can anyone recall a greater level of day-to-day anxiety? …

Music

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The Artist Detox (Part 2)
The Artist Detox (Part 2)

Sep 14, 2021

The Artist Detox (Part 1)

MEASURE THE RIGHT THINGS “Measurement is fabulous. Unless you’re busy measuring what‘s easy to measure as opposed to what’s important.” -Seth Godin You release a new single and immediately obsess over your streaming count. Or you obsess over your follower count and engagement on your preferred social platform. Usually both. These are easy things…

Music Business

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The Artist Detox (Part 1)
The Artist Detox (Part 1)

Aug 2, 2021

Your Opportunities Are My Lost Opportunities

Busting the Narrative and What Artists Can Learn From Forests. — It’s late 2020 and I’m going for a hike through deep snow, listening to The Daily podcast. This particular episode, featuring Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, shared how she discovered that trees use underground fungal networks to communicate and share resources, uprooting…

Artist

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Your Opportunities Are My Lost Opportunities
Your Opportunities Are My Lost Opportunities

Mar 13, 2021

Artists, Expect Delays

The Delayed Return Environment of Releasing Music — “In modern society, many of the choices you make today will not benefit you immediately. If you do a good job at work, you’ll get a paycheck in a few weeks. If you exercise today, perhaps you won’t be overweight next year. If you save money now, maybe you’ll have…

Music

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Artists, Expect Delays
Artists, Expect Delays

Dec 18, 2020

Best of 2020 Awards

The artists who saved me. — As per Spotify, I spent a full month’s worth of time listening to music this year (4,380 minutes). This doesn’t account for the additional time listening to terrestrial radio like KEXP and WFUV. Time well spent I say. 2020 called for a deep level of introspection given everything we have…

Music

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Best of 2020 Awards
Best of 2020 Awards

Oct 6, 2020

How Artists Can Cut Through the Noise

With two words. — Question: “How do I cut through all the noise out there?” Answer: Artists, BE PRECISE. I’ve been asked this question countless times recently, so let’s break apart this classic music industry question. What is “the noise”? It’s a challenging world to occupy as an artist, with a dizzying array of…

Motivation

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How Artists Can Cut Through the Noise
How Artists Can Cut Through the Noise

Jul 24, 2020

Do You Really Need a Label?

No…not that type of label. Oh how we love to categorize things. Being labeled an artist is a useful human construct, a way to organize your inherent, or learned, skills into a neat little package. Artist is a label you assign to yourself, or one that gets assigned to you…

Artist

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Do You Really Need a Label?
Do You Really Need a Label?

Jun 8, 2020

Finding the Resonant Frequency

The secret to connecting with an audience. — I talk to artists for a living, and one particular week this spring, it felt like all my conversations were whisked together. The more I listened, the more I realized that everyone was essentially asking the same questions; they were seeking an unlocking mechanism — one that would help them…

Music

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Finding the Resonant Frequency
Finding the Resonant Frequency
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