Charles Penn is a musician and music producer based in New Jersey. Together with Prescott they discuss the state of music on the Internet, including listening, buying, sharing, and the potential to collaborating world-wide. The conversation moves to music promotion and tactics for artists starting out. Check out Charles’s music on his website, The Sounds of The Underground.

 


 
 

 
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Show Notes & Links

First episode recorded face-to-face. Skype is awesome, but it’s nice to see people in real life.
Coverville
In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond
YouTube (yes, for music)
Prescott [still uses] an iPod Classic
Bob Marley on iTunes
Google Music
Juicy, by Notorious B.I.G. on iTunes
Pandora, for streaming
Music Genome Project
Sade on iTunes
Beats Music Service
Services are too associated with Social Media (Rdio and Spotify, especially)
Drake, Nicki Minaj, Lil’ Wayne — all artists which Prescott has never heard of
Daley
Robin Thicke
45 Record Singles
Beatles-a-Rama
Apple Records
iTunes v12 coming soon (to your Mac)
Google is Skynet
DRM
.Mac and iDrive (c. 2001)
CD Quality is 16-bit 44.1Khz Stereo PCM
Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube
Gabrielle Aplin, has been playing her videos from her bedroom for years and is now a big star
Points on the back-end
Finding Llweyn Davis

Tools

Rhapsody
Spotify
Rdio
Shazam
Pandora
iTunes internet radio
ACB Radio for the Blind
The Halls of Ivy (every episode available for download)
Amazon Music
Google Wallet
YouTube, for sharing your music
Weebly, for website templates
ReverbNation
SoundCloud, for home-grown artists

Techniques

For Pandora, only vote songs down. Otherwise, you’ll hear the exact same song again and again.
Search for stations on the Internet Radio stream. Discover something unexpected.
Exchange features with other up-and-coming artists, then cross-promote for each other

Habits

Search randomly. Don’t “plan” your music.
Give away your music to build a fan base. The money will come.

Get The Episode

Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 17(MP3, 57:36, 55.7 MB)
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