Liminal Life » Music Biz http://liminallife.com Living Life In-Between Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:08:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Save Paste http://liminallife.com/2009/05/14/save-paste/ http://liminallife.com/2009/05/14/save-paste/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 05:02:09 +0000 joe http://liminallife.com/2009/05/14/save-paste/ Read my thoughts on the NoiseTrade blog. Or just click the banner and donate now.

Joe

]]> http://liminallife.com/2009/05/14/save-paste/feed/ 0 Vote early and often http://liminallife.com/2008/11/22/vote-early-and-often/ http://liminallife.com/2008/11/22/vote-early-and-often/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:31:52 +0000 joe http://liminallife.com/2008/11/22/vote-early-and-often/ NoiseTrade has been nominated for a Mashable award in the music category. We’re up against companies like Last.fm and Pandora, which is pretty cool for us. I’d really appreciate it if you’d vote for us. You can vote once a day per email address. This would be huge for us if we could beat some of those companies. We put the widget on our blog to make it easy to vote for us. Or you can vote below if you prefer.

]]> http://liminallife.com/2008/11/22/vote-early-and-often/feed/ 0 I’m not dead… yet http://liminallife.com/2008/11/14/im-not-dead-yet/ http://liminallife.com/2008/11/14/im-not-dead-yet/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:53:12 +0000 joe http://liminallife.com/2008/11/14/im-not-dead-yet/ In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t written a blog post in three months. I’d love to say I’ve just been too busy, but I seem to find time to watch The Office and The Fringe, so I must not be that busy. So let’s just mark it up to distraction.

But it’s going to get busy starting next week when I start working three jobs. Yep, three.

My day gig is going to be contracting with the Tennessee Department of Transportation. I’ll be doing project management in the IT department 7.5 hours a day. We’ve been in Nashville almost a year and in that year every dollar we had invested is now worth 65 cents. Tough economic times indeed. So, like almost every artist in Nashville, I’m getting a day gig. This is how I made my living eleven years ago and I can do it in my sleep. So I’ll go in early every day and get out mid afternoon with time to do focus on the stuff I care about. The lady I’ll be working for is great and I’m looking forward to serving her.

I’ve also joined the partners at NoiseTrade, which is a major cool music marketing company. We help artists build their fanbase by targeted campaigns of giving away music. I have great partners and we have a great reputation. There’s lot’s of great music available there for free. Check it out.

I’m also starting to work part time with my church, The Village Chapel. We’re starting a college age group and I’m heading that efort. Betsy and I have commented a lot over the last year that we feel like we are doing an adult version of our first year of marriage when we lived in Gainesville and I worked with IVCF. So here I am working with college students again. I guess the circle is complete.

I’ll try to start blogging more often, but I’m making no promises. But I am starting to blog a lot on the NoiseTrade blog. It’s all geared towards the business of music, but we’re starting to build a great community over there. You might enjoy subscribing to that blog too. And I’ve turned into a Twitter nut so you can follow me there.

Joe

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This is just too cool. It is painted on the side of a building in downtown Nashville. I have no idea why. For now I’m assuming it is talking about me.

Lindy took the picture while roaming around downtown, so I haven’t even seen it yet. Gotta get down there this weekend and see it for myself.

I need this on a t-shirt.

]]> http://liminallife.com/2008/04/16/joe-knows-nashville/feed/ 1 One of the seven signs of the Apocalypse http://liminallife.com/2008/03/27/one-of-the-seven-signs-of-the-apocalypse/ http://liminallife.com/2008/03/27/one-of-the-seven-signs-of-the-apocalypse/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:55:40 +0000 joe http://liminallife.com/2008/03/27/one-of-the-seven-signs-of-the-apocalypse/

Alvin the Chipmunk sings a beautiful song from the movie Once. (Which was my favorite film of the year and my favorite album too.) And for no apparent reason, the player has ads for some Jesus junk at the bottom.

The end is near…

(Thanks to Dave King for letting me know about this.)

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