Today I have another really in-depth guest post from Australian musician Adam Hoek. Adam reached out about a recent post I did on Headliner.fm. Below is a pretty good guide to using the service which is gaining steam. If you would like to write a guest post, please send your idea over to marketing@genyrockstars.com. 10 ...…
Just watched this video from TechCrunch Disrupt with Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s manager and Scooter Braun, Justin Beiber’s manager. The video shows you just how powerful video and social media marketing is in breaking a big artist. Some highlights I wanted to share: Bieber spends 2+ hours a day on Twitter. This is a dude with ...…
Today I have a really cool guest post from Keith Mitchell, aka @FreshNerd. What I like about this is that he actually talks about the music creation process, something that I don’t spend any time looking at anymore. I still use Acid Pro and Reason when I do turn on the old studio PC. Last ...…
Update: BandWPThemes is now live. You can grab the Indie version for $27 and the Platinum version for $37. Learn more here. I love WordPress. It’s no secret. I’ve gone toe-to-toe with a lot of people on this and I seldom lose. It is the most powerful tool (outside of email) due to the amount ...…
I’ve hinted to it in a few posts, but today I wanted to make it official. First let’s talk back story. As a frontman in StumpP and doing my own thing for almost 10 years, I always wanted a clothing sponsor. Who wouldn’t want to rock some fly gear and get cool packages in the ...…
I love it when new music companies send me actual stats and case studies to back up what they are doing. Last week I got an email from Mike over at Headliner.fm that showcased some of the artists using their platform and the really impressive results they are getting. For those unfamiliar with Headliner.fm, they ...…
(Davey D and me in Oakland) Last week while in Oakland with Danny Dee, we had a quick lunch with hip-hop journalistic and radio icon Davey D. Davey is also an instructor at San Francisco State. During our conversation he brought up one of the best points, that while obvious, so many artists overlook and ...…
Saw this today and just had to share. Rana Sobhany is a DJ from New York that is using 2 iPads and a NuMark mixer for her DJ sets. The video was shot by tech industry mogul Robert Scoble, aka Scobleizer. Rana also has a blog where she talks about experimenting with creating music solely ...…
