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I'm taking a few days away from my Zen Junk project to focus my efforts on recording an album for this year's February Album Writing Month and RPM Challenge. If you haven't heard of them, check them out. It's not too late to commit to making this month the month you record and release something new to the world. This will be an Echo Root album of course, and as is a fairly common practice, I've already chosen an album title and track names. So here they are as a...

In this brave new digital world, where every click can lead you into a bewildering cloud of unknown sounds and images, we find ourselves deeply indebted to those trailblazing spirits who venture forth into the binary wilderness and return to us with hard-won tales of beautiful things beyond the horizon. Thus, I must start by thanking my fellow Fuzzer TheCapitalClinic for scribbling out the treasure map that has led me to Zaman 8. Embarking upon my own journey into the soundscape crafted by...

I would like to offer a challenge to the Fuzz community to foster deeper engagement with one another's music and give you the opportunity to both experience music more fully and have your music truly heard. Within the next 7 days, take the time to listen (really listen) to another Fuzzer's music and take the time to leave a thoughtful review. The rules: 1. You may review a song, an album, or an artist's full body of work, leaving your review as a song comment, an album...

Today I ran across FizzKicks.com, a site that allows you to print off "music cards" that can be sold offline and used by the purchaser to download your tracks from their site. I think this is a novel solution for artists (like me) that don't, can't or won't print up boxes of CDs to sell at shows or wherever. Maybe Fuzz could do something similar. Since Fuzz does take a cut of download sales (FizzKicks doesn't, but they sure charge for everything else), I think...

Mike Shea poses the million dollar question in the OP-ED column of this month's Alternative Press: "How do musicians make a career out of music in the future?" It sounds obvious, but in order to have a career and be a "professional" anything, someone has to be buying something. With services like Fuzz, artists are more enabled than ever to make, promote and distribute their music. The question is... are people buying it? In the past, physical media represented...