Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Derek Silvers (the guy responsible for CD Baby, which distributes my record (which you haven’t bought, why haven’t you bought one yet?) posted an interesting (albeit long) article by Peter Spellman called The Future of Music Careers, which is a call-to-arms to musicians everywhere to ditch dreams of stardom and take the reins of their own destiny, or, um, something like that. Definitely written to appeal to artists who haven’t recognized the true power of the Web yet.

The same forces that are undoing the larger music companies are empowering individual musicians. And as a result, the idea of a “music career” is sprouting new wings as artists and industry careerists begin discarding intoxicating myths and tapping into some new-found powers.

Powers deriving from desktop computers and digital recording gear, from a hyperabundance of entrepreneurial and self-development resources, a segmenting (and reachable) music marketplace, and most importantly, from the Internet - the first tool that puts a global communication and distribution “channel” into the musician’s hands.