December 31, 2018 Dear Reader, Since 1997, spinme.com's been the place where I posted anything I wanted to about music and pop culture. Sometimes, I'd…

January 2017

We knew it would happen someday. Back in 1989, Andres Serrano busted open a simmering debate over whether it’s right (or even effective) for tax dollars…
Morning Edition’s Allyson McCabe dropped a five minute mini-documentary about how “pay for play” at radio stations has evolved from the scandalous “song…
spinme.com turns twenty this year. Our mission, when we first launched this thing, was to try to expose the work of artists who weren’t getting enough…
I just posted dozens of "classic" coaching call recordings to our membership area, and even though some of them are over a decade old, many of those…

June 2016

Excellent advice for comics from Brent Morin, who released an excellent Netflix special not long ago: Get up every night. Bar shows and coffee shops…
Nathan Hubbard, former CEO of Ticketmaster, dropped a scorch-the-earth essay on the state of concert ticketing on The Ringer. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who’s…
It's a big day here at spinme.com, since we're launching the first of our new series of courses for working musicians and other creative professionals…

August 2015

I'm posting some early chapters of Audience Supported for spinme.com members... It doesn’t matter if you follow every other step in this book to the…
From our “Ask a Question” mailbag, Joey M. writes to ask: “I guess my query is the same as many others. How do I get my music to the right ears?” I…
I'm posting some early drafts of chapters from Audience Supported just for supporters of spinme.com... The new boss looks a lot like the old boss. We’ve…
I'm posting some early drafts of chapters from Audience Supported just for supporters of spinme.com... Elvis Presley only recorded one commercial in his…