Welcome to Day 4 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers San Antonio, known by the public for their Riverwalk and by bands as having a large number of [...]
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Booking Your Band in Texas Guide – Day 3, Houston
January 25, 2010 – 12:08 am
Welcome to Day 3 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers Houston, the fourth largest city in the nation but a city not known for it’s music community. Booking [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide – Day 2, Dallas
January 19, 2010 – 6:28 pm
Welcome to Day 2 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers Dallas, the cosmopolitan center of Texas and also, a hotbed for rodeo. Booking Your Band in Texas – [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide – Day 1, Austin
January 18, 2010 – 6:00 am
Welcome to Day 1 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers Austin, “The Music Capital of the World.” Booking Your Band in Texas – pt. 1, Austin This download [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide – 5 Days of Career Building Information for Bands
January 17, 2010 – 10:56 pm
Any band looking to step up their game in 2010 can initiate their excitement engines. Over the next 5 days I’ll be releasing a list of venues within a four hour drive of Houston that you can contact to book your band a gig. This list is a lead up to Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY which will be [...]
Book a Show for Your Band at Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY
January 15, 2010 – 12:43 pm
One of the best things you can do for yourself as a band is to start touring as early as possible. As Mike King puts it on Artist House Music’s blog, “Tour Early and Tour Often.” He also mentions that in order to do this effectively, “be sure that your live show is awesome.” And [...]
Innovation Driving Ideas for 2010
January 14, 2010 – 10:46 pm
The end of 2009 saw reflective lists from everyone who could get up the energy to dredge their memories and diaries. I’d like to offer a different list, a wishlist for 2010, or a to-do list for the decade if you can’t get to it this year. I contributed to a similar list focused solely [...]
Print Killed Authenticity
January 13, 2010 – 5:25 pm
The first topic we address in Society and the Information Age are the cultural and societal shifts that occurred with the coming of the book and the extinction of oral tradition. Although we are now several technological generations beyond the book as a technology, parallels remain between society containing only verbal content and our now variegated content-saturated [...]
Society in the Information Age: New(ish) Course for Spring 2010
January 13, 2010 – 1:09 am
Rice University has asked me to act as a substitute instructor for the spring 2010 semester teaching a course entitled Society in the Information Age. The course examines the effects of technology on the ways in which we live, work and think about the world around us. This course has been taught for the better part [...]
How to Cook Like an Engineer
January 5, 2010 – 1:50 pm
When I go out to eat with friends, our meals arrive at the same time, and usually all at the same temperature. In my personal kitchen, this is next to impossible. Aside from a cripplingly novice technique, the most difficult part of cooking for me is timing. I tend towards complicated multi-dish meals that require [...]