Indie artists and music lovers alike, here are some great resources for you to checkout: cdbaby.com:  Indie guru Derek Sivers has put together a great resource site for both musicians and music lovers that want to uncover new music.  There are lots of tips on how to promote your music, plus they offer order fulfillment…

Podcasting just hit the big time with the latest release of iTunes 4.9.  Go to www.apple.com and download iTunes with podcasting for FREE.  It’s my media player of choice nowadays anyways…and the podcasting feature is a real bonus.  Basically, they’ve made it easy for us all to get hip to the podcasting revolution.  So checkie……

Independent songstress Eleni Mandell recently scored some commercial success due to a popular and controversial Carls Jr. commercial, featuring a scantily clad Paris Hilton (imagine that)….along with Eleni’s suped-up cover of "I Love Paris" by Cole Porter.  You can now download it exclusively on itunes.  In this recent news story, Eleni says, "Well, I’ve been…

I first happened upon this eclectic jewel when Eleni Mandell (one of my favorite independent artists) had a link from her site to an online live performance.  It was a couple years ago, but I think it was this one.  Morning Becomes Eclectic is live radio show based out of LA, but also broadcasting to…

Several of my friends & readers have asked me this question…  In fact "blog" was the number one searched word on webster.com in 2004, breaking all previous records–so if you don’t know what one is, a lot of people are in the same boat.  I like to say that blogs (along with blog feedreaders) are…