A Review Of This Year's Lists

Happy Thanksgiving for those of you who celebrate it. I thought that today would be a good day to review some of the posts from the past that contained some lists. Here we go with 10 of them from earlier in the year:

8 Street Performance Tips

5 Reasons Why Concerts Sound So Bad

4 Ways The Internet Could Go Down

The 5 Best Cities For Live Music

5 Live Show Mistakes Bands Make

6 Common Songwriting Problems

8 Tips For Mixing For Mastering

DJ Shadow's 13 Secrets Of Music Biz Survival

9 All-Time Bad Tech Predictions

8 Indicators Your Mix Is Finished

Enjoy the lists (and the football and turkey if you're in the US).

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DJ Shadow's 13 Secrets For Music Biz Survival

Here's a post that originally came from the great Hypebot blog regarding DJ Shadow's (also known as Josh Davis) 13 secrets for music business survival. If you don't know who he is, Shadow's considered a prominent figure in the world of hip hop, and credited with the first album (Endtroducing) that was recorded using only sampled sounds. You don't have to be a DJ for these secrets to apply; they work for anyone in the music business.

1.    Listen to the advice of those who've gone before you
2.    Realize when you've made a mistake - like turning down Apple…
3.    Expect to hear your music in strange places
4.    Enjoy the minutiae
5.    Keep yourself mysterious to fans
6.    Touring doesn't make as much as you think
7.    Defy Spinal Tap with your stage show
8.    Embrace the oddity of streetwear
9.    Go to where the work is
10.  Respect the craft
11.  Reissues take a lot of work
12.  Keep up with technology
13.  Always have another project

The ones I like the best are 1, 4, 9 and 10, but the others are valuable too. Take them to heart.

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Help support this blog. Any purchases made through our Amazon links help support this website with no cost to you.


You should follow me on Twitter for daily news and updates on production and the music business.


Don't forget to check out my Music 3.0 blog for tips and tricks on navigating social media and the new music business.