Quick tip 71 Stay ahead of the game
You are faced with an uphill battle even on a good day in the music business. Things will not go according to the plan most of the time. You are dealing with things you do not have control over, for…
April 13, 2015
Quick tip 70 Make your self worth investing
Posted at April 10, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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It is ok to look for help in music business, and there are actually quite a lot of people out there who are more than happy to help you out. But here’s the thing, you need to do your homework…
Quick tip 69 Stop worrying about how to monetise your recording
Posted at April 9, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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The recorded music had a good run of success. I mean, we had vinyl, we had cassettes, we had CD’s and then we had downloads. The thing is, streaming is here to stay, no matter how unfair you as a…
The importance of the human being
The scales have shifted. The big machines known as the major labels have lost their power. They are reduced to producing bubble gum pop, and picking up those artists who against all the odds make it to the top on…
Photography v Music rights
Posted at April 5, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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The band Garbage have found themselves in a middle of a sh*t storm with a photographer Pat Pope over some rights to use photographs the band paid him to take twenty years ago. You can read all about it HERE….
5th of April Blog update
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This week my fifth album “After the Storm” came out. It was bit hard to take in as I have been working flat-out. But at the end of this week, I managed to take few days off and head down…
Quick tip 65 CD’s
Posted at April 3, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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We all have heard the news, CD’s are on the way out. The good old record shops are struggling. Those magical plastic discs we were told you could even wash when they first came out seem to be heading for…
29th of March Blog update
Posted at March 29, 2015 by
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This week we had the first promise of spring, followed by a hail stone storm here in Dublin. You know that time of the year when you don’t know which jacket to put on 😀 But I also had a…
Quick tip 59 Tell them about it
Posted at March 26, 2015 by
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Remember the line in “If you build it, they will come” from a Kevin Costner film Field of dreams? This mentality in music business is a sure way to set your self to fail. There are endless mounts of wanna…
Don’t worry too much what others think
Yesterday I found myself wasting nearly an hour looking for a photo suitable for a blog post. The thing was I had a photo all along, but I was concerned how some people might read in to it bit too…
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