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Spotify is Rolling Direct Messages Between Users. Awesome, Another DM Platform for Us to Get Spammed

by Rai Beardsley | Sep 1, 2025 | Audio, Marketing, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

Please let us know if this is a feature in Spotify that you want, need, desire. Episode 653: So Spotify is rolling direct messages between users. Awesome, another DM platform for us to get spammed. Please let us know if this is a feature in Spotify that you want,...

You Should Always Be Seeking Out New Fans, But Don’t Ignore Your Superfans While Doing It.

by Rai Beardsley | Aug 25, 2025 | Audio, Marketing, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

As you seek out new fans be careful that you don’t take your superfans for granted and ignore them. Episode 652: Using KISS and Jay and Mike’s own diehard fandom as an example, as you seek out new fans be careful that you don’t take your superfans for granted and...

W.A.S.P. Add Four More Shows to the Final Leg of the European Album ONE Alive Tour Including a Rescheduled Date in Italy.

by Rai Beardsley | Aug 20, 2025 | Music Marketing, Press Releases

Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2025) — W.A.S.P. are adding four new shows in Budapest, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Milan to the 2025 Album ONE Alive European Tour. The final leg in Europe begins on September 26th in Newcastle. Six shows on this final European leg of the Album...

STEVE GORDON MIA Shares Stories Behind Recording and Writing His First Two Singles, including WE GO TO WAR Featuring Spread Eagle’s Ray West on Lead Vocals

by Rai Beardsley | Aug 19, 2025 | Press Releases

NEW YORK CITY, NY (August 18, 2025) — “We Go To War (feat. Ray West)” introduced STEVE GORDON MIA’s hard rock firepower. With his latest single “Pharaoh Lives”, Steve Gordon proves that even without words, the guitar alone can lead the charge. Now Steve Gordon...

Musicians, Rock Is NOT Dead! This is the BEST Time to Be in the Music Business!

by Rai Beardsley | Aug 18, 2025 | Audio, Marketing, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

You can record and release your music!! Episode 651: Gene Simmons and Glenn Hughes each recently said the music industry is dead, Gene going so far as to say fans have killed the business. Wrong! This is now the best time ever to be in the music industry. The...