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Scott Belsky – Making Ideas Happen

Scott talks about why it’s so easy to come up with new ideas rather than finishing what we start and how we can break that cycle.

So many times people get hung up and worried about putting things out, because they are not perfect.… Read More

#WriteItDownMakeCoolShitHappen

Make a list of all the good things you are going to do. Post a photo + Tag your post with:

​#WriteItDownMakeCoolShitHappen​

Lets get people to inspire each other. Below is an Instagram gallery that is updated every time you use this tag.… Read More

Selling art for the first time + What if no one buys

Before departing for a tour in Europe, I gave The Black Seeds Rootfire t-shirts as farewell gifts. A few weeks later a student in Germany saw one of the band members wearing the shirt in Munich and wrote me an email asking if I would send him one.… Read More

What’s your draw?

By Dave Poe
Booking Agent for: The Green, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Seeed, The Cat Empire, Trevor Hall, etc.

Ah, the question that every band or manager has heard before while in negotiations (or begging pleas for that matter) to book a show at a music venue… big or… Read More

Pitching + Social Media Week DC Highlights

Pitching + Social Media Week DC Highlights
By Curtis Bergesen

Last Thursday I attended a Social Media Week event in Washington DC named “Social Media and the Local Music Scene: Engaging local audiences and re-envisioning social networks.” The event took place at VeraCruz Gallery and was hosted by Listen… Read More