We met these interesting people at the Salon de Musique Independent a little while ago who had recently started up a business advising people - mostly musicians - on how to get at the grant money. Ahh the grant money - love it or hate it, it hangs like a beacon of promise in the [...]
You can listen to all the contradictory advice in the world and you still won’t “make it”. What to do? Non-advice on finding a happy medium in your art and your mind with Mess. Montreal.
In.Sight : The Art of KISSing
I consider it to be the golden rule of communicating, and it’s always worthy [...]
On the tail of Pop Montreal, “M” For Montreal arrives. Day 1 is down for the count and Day 2 is in progress… so I urge you to check out tonight’s lineup:
Krief, Shapes and Sizes, Hot Spring, Karkwa, Elsiane, The Stills, Creature, Thunderheist
The Fun starts again tonight, Tuesday October 16th, at 7.30p.
Tickets for the night [...]
Yes, this is a post about Environment for Blog Action Day. You’ll see, I’m getting there.
Following Radiohead’s Pay-What-You-Can move for In Rainbows I’ve been witness to some interesting debates. Many musicians I know have been celebrating. Because Radiohead’s servers have been overloaded, many people have been publicly circulating versions of the album on [...]
We’re turning 1 officially today and tomorrow, and right now Indyish finds itself surrounded by lots of advice. This is bracing, sometimes irritating but in the could-make-pearl way, and comes at a good time. A few years ago I might have scoffed at a “coaching session” or flipped quickly, eyebrows raised, through a book on [...]