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 [...]

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 Your [...]

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 - pt. [...]

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
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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 [...]

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 [...]

As I was maladroitly fumbling with a picnic blanket last year, Grace Rodriguez asked me, “What’s your goal?” That question, “What’s Your Goal?” became an important one for me over the past year. It’s become a mantra of sorts, a question I repeat to myself internally and a query I pose aloud to others. As [...]

Graphs are fun. Here’s a look at Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the Decade, broken down by year.

While poring over Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the year, I got the feeling that 2000 and 2001 were popping up more than any other year. I put together a quick spreadsheet of the numbers of releases per [...]

Tomorrow Pitchfork debuts the final 20 in their list of the Top 200 albums Of The Decade. On the whole, most of those albums are ones that I’ve listened to over and over again. They’ve provided a aural component to most events of the decade. Some have added spice, some have been bitter reminders of [...]

There’s a widely held stereotype that scientists and musicians are poorly organized. Like any stereotype there are reasons behind this: for scientists there’s another widely held belief that they are pack rats, accumulating any bit of information that could be needed at a later date. This contributes to the disheveled and disordering mental image most [...]