Monthly Archives: October 2011

Musebox’s Interview with Steve Bailey

Steve Bailey

It’s not often that you get to take time out of a music legend’s day – particularly Steve Bailey of six string fretless bass fame. You wonder what questions you could ask the musician that musicians after him should strive to become. He has lead a successful career, collaborated and performed with a musicians you’d be starstruck by, and even into his fifties he has been fortunate enough to know only the title of “bassist” and “musician” for the entirety of his professional career.

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Musebox’s Interview with Little Anchor

little anchor

  Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp | Myspace | Blog   Little Anchor is undoubtedly personal for the Pacific Northwestern turned NYC songstress. It grew out of a weekend sojourn away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, and took Alexa Cabellon to the rural cabins sitting by the Columbia River Gorge. The product [...]

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Musebox’s Interview with Dumbfoundead

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   Facebook | Twitter | Website/Bandcamp Laboring over his latest album, “DFD,” for the past year to the point of “want[ing] out,” Dumbfoundead has come far from the days of battling and scribbling lyrics with dreams to make music more than just a lifestyle. Years of grinding before technology, could have been thrown out the [...]

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What To Make Of The Spotify And Facebook Partnership

  [I write for DottedMusic.com on music technology, marketing, and lifestyle. The following is an article that I've written for Dotted Music, which I is republished on Musebox on a 5-7 day delay.] Facebook marketing is no longer about the mere maintenance of your band’s Facebook page since Facebook’s release of Facebook Music and their announcement [...]

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Musebox’s Interview with Turn off Your Television

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  Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud | Spotify | Website   With lifestyle complexities and technological advances that pull us away from life’s simple pleasures, the three piece band, Turn off Your Television, has a rather simple message: “Don’t get stuck in modern society.” It’s not often I’m convinced that living in pure mediocrity is [...]

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Statistics: Why you should choose Tumblr for your Band’s CMS

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If you’ve been mulling over which CMS to choose from for your band’s blog, the fast growth of the blogging platform is evidence that your safest bet is with Tumblr. Toting social features that allow for re-blogging by other bloggers, which is as simple as re-Tweeting, the platform is supported by an easy to use [...]

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Ad Week Day 3: The Facts Behind the Internet Radio Listeners and the Future of Music Tech

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  In Day 3 of Advertising Week, I attended two seminars both on the sole topic of music. The first, is “Digital Music Discovery: What Rocks? Who’s Listening… and Why? The Power of Individual Choice and Community Input.” Panelists from TargetSpot, Slacker Radio, MTV O and Soundcloud discussed the technology of music and its future, [...]

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