Category: The creative life
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The future of music and blockchain technology
Why blockchain music is the future For decades, the music industry has functioned like a funnel. At the wide top, millions of fans pour in billions of dollars in subscription fees. At the narrow bottom, after labels, distributors, and platform overhead take their cuts, independent artists are often left fighting for fractions of a penny…
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Why is it so hard to grow as an independent artist
The Challenges of Being an Independent Aritst One of the real truths about being an independent band or recording artist is that most of the time you’re balancing a full-time job while chasing your music dreams. While it may look like major label artists are constantly releasing new music, what you don’t always see is…
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The Top 50 Christmas Songs Of All Time
These songs don’t just rank on “best Christmas songs of all time” lists, they own them, year after year, reminding us that holiday music isn’t about trends… it’s about tradition that somehow never gets old. Here are the top 50 Christmas songs of all time: Classic Christmas Songs Whether you’re here for the nostalgia, the…
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Learn the notes on the guitar fretboard, and relax while doing it
How Playing Guitar Can Relax Your Mind and Calm Your Nerves In a world full of stress, noise, and constant distractions, finding simple ways to relax is more important than ever. One surprisingly powerful way to calm your mind is something many people already have sitting in their home: a guitar. You don’t need to…
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The Top 25 Classic Rock Songs Of All Time
Here are the top 25 classic rock songs of all time: There’s something almost mysterious about the staying power of classic rock. Decades come and go, entire genres rise and fall, but a relatively small group of songs, those widely accepted “top 25” classic rock staples, continue to echo through cars, bars, playlists, and generations.…
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A Songwriters Dream For Creating Demos Of Old Songs
For most people who have never tried to bring a song from an idea to a finished recording, it’s hard to explain just how big the gap is between writing music and producing music. Writing a song can happen anywhere, on a couch with an acoustic guitar, humming melodies into a phone, scribbling lyrics on…
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How Independent Artists Actually Grow in the Spotify Algorithm (Without Going Viral)
Getting Noticed by the Spotify algorithm If you had asked me in the early days of Spotify what it took to grow, I would have said luck. Get on a playlist, hope something catches, maybe get discovered. But after years of releasing music independently, watching songs sit unnoticed, and then slowly seeing traction build, I…
Coffee & a Playlist 