How media sites inflate traffic stats and why it never works out
Sites raise money and gain access based on traffic, but the numbers can be deceiving. Let’s take a look at how digital media sites are gaming the system. Continue Reading
Music Journalism
Advice All Music Writers Should Follow in 2019
The music business in 2019 would be virtually unrecognizable to the music business of 2000. In less than two decades the industry we all love has undergone an extensive transformation that has emphasized access rather than ownership, created a glut… Continue Reading
How Plagiarism is Treated In Music Writing Today
We live in the age of content overload. It is impossible for most people to keep up with a single feed, let alone multiple accounts across numerous platforms. Add to this the thousands of websites publishing tens of thousands of… Continue Reading
Who reads your music blog?
Search the name of virtually any artist or group on social media, and you are bound to find people discussing that act. Opinions on music are a dime a dozen, and when it comes to bands, everyone already knows their… Continue Reading
A beginner’s guide to producing quality music festival coverage
This post comes to us from Matt Leimkuhler, a writer for the Des Moines Register. Ahhh. The ever-so formidable task of mastering festival coverage. It’s not easy, running around like a chicken with your head cut off for 12-18 hours… Continue Reading
What to do when someone writes about your music
Gaining the attention of blogs and their readers is no easy feat, especially for unsigned talent with little-to-no history. You can write the best songs and have the most beautiful videos, but if you do not know how to network… Continue Reading
10 lessons from 10 years in music writing
Time flies when you’re chasing your dreams, and I’ve been running after mine for ten years as of this week. It was March of 2008 when I first launched a music blog of my own, and in the time since… Continue Reading
Join the 2018 Music Writing Exercise this February!
Music journalist Gary Suarez developed a great exercise for music writers at every level of the profession in early 2015 that has since been revisited every year since. We plan to participate and hope the rest of you will as well. Here… Continue Reading
What happens when you steal someone’s work?
We live in the age of content overload. It is impossible for most people to keep up with a single feed, let alone multiple accounts across numerous platforms. Add to this the thousands of websites publishing tens of thousands of… Continue Reading
How to conduct great, original interviews
Music writers today are inundated with requests for coverage from artists and their representatives on a daily basis. There are far too many for one person to ever do them all, and most would not be worth the effort anyway.… Continue Reading