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Your Take: Pet Peeves
Justin Moore’s new single “Small Town USA” is trickling onto country radio airwaves, so when I heard it for the first time on my local country station this week, I turned up the volume and gave it a listen.
There’s just something a little different about hearing a song coming through car speakers, shades on and [...] -
Your Take: Singles and Albums
In the comments section of Wednesday’s News Roundup, Brody and artist Miss Leslie discussed the new(ish) trend of music labels preemptively testing artists’ singles before dedicating time and money to releasing (or even recording) entire albums:
Miss Leslie: Hey Brody – out of curiosity – what’s ya’ll’s take on the way things are going with music [...] -
Your Take: Impact of Music Videos
The Academy of Country Music awards show airs Sunday, but some trophies have already been handed out. One of these early honors went to Brad Paisley, who won Video of the Year for “Waitin’ On A Woman.”
Music videos (or “filmed inserts,” as they were sometimes referred to before the 1980s) have been around longer than [...] -
Your Take: Corporate Control of Concert Prices
The first day of spring kicks off next Friday, and with warmer weather comes exciting announcements of summer country concert tours. We’re pretty concert-happy around here as well, as we’re sponsoring the New American Voices Tour with Rodney Hayden and Drew Kennedy.
Before television and the Internet, the concert experience was the only way to get [...]Continue reading "Your Take: Corporate Control of Concert Prices"
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Rucker Proves That Sometimes, The Best Marketing Is No Marketing At All
Don’t look now, but Darius Rucker, lead singer of 90s rock group Hootie & The Blowfish, has a country hit on his hands. “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” currently sits at number 14 on Billboard’s country singles chart and continues to pick up spins. What you probably haven’t heard is that Rucker [...]
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The Year in Review: Comeback Kids
This is the first of a series of Year in Review articles that will appear on The 9513 between now and the new year.
In my mind, Porter Wagoner will forever epitomize country music in 2007.
Some may object to my hanging an entire year on the back of an artist who didn’t sniff the radio [...] -
MySpace As a Marketing Tool
American Chronicle has a wonderful article about artists using MySpace to promote themselves. The 9513 has been on MySpace for a little less than half a month and it’s already apparent that artists realize the potential MySpace has as a marketing tool just by the sheer number that have added us.
“I heard from college [...]
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