Dear Bands and Musicians: I like your music and want to support you. How do I do it?
Solution: I think every band/artist/musician needs a tip jar.
Continue reading Music Needs TippingDear Bands and Musicians: I like your music and want to support you. How do I do it?
Solution: I think every band/artist/musician needs a tip jar.
Continue reading Music Needs TippingSpotify has been a constant work companion lately, a good way to sample music and it seems to work so much better than iTunes (which is really counter what you expect from Apple).
Though I still like to own music and every few months I hop over to iTunes to buy a bunch of my favorite tracks from Spotify to make CDs for the car and to have music on my phone.
Here are some recent tunes I’m enjoying:
Finding music is always hard. My go-to sources are things people mention online (how I found Noah Gunderson, Liz Vice & Amanda Opelt), The Current (Elle King, Kasey Chambers, Gary Clark Jr.) and Spotify’s recommendations/browsing (The Oh Hellos, Fallbrigade, G.R.L. and Walk the Moon).
My most recent favorite feature of Spotify is their Discover Weekly playlist. Every week they make a new custom playlist of songs just for you. It’s about 30 songs and I assume they use some fancy algorithm based on what I listen to. It’s not full of songs I love, but I usually find a few songs I like and that gives me new artists to check out.
I’ve realized lately the entertainment industry is undergoing a pretty radical shift.
Duh.
OK, so this isn’t ground-breaking territory. But I’m seeing the implications in my daily life much more than I have before.
So there are a few ways to get entertainment content, which vary slightly depending on medium: