CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Amber Westerman, Tuatha Dea, Hitch & The Giddyup
This month's crowdfunding radar rounds up three worthy campaigns with streaming at the core of their asks.
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CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Abbie Gardner, The River Cryers, and Chad & Jeremy
August is a prolific time in the crowdfunding world. Entering the latter third of the summer touring/festival season artists begin to turn their thoughts toward their next album cycle. In order to get an album funded in time to record in the fall or winter, it's time
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Maya de Vitry, Rio Tripiano, and David Wax Museum
Most months, all three of my featured campaigns come from Kickstarter. That's because Kickstarter is, by far, the biggest crowdfunding platform around for music. But there are others, including some unconventional ones, which deserve attention as well. This month they get it as all of my featured campaigns
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Pete Mason and Mark Serlo; The Neighbors; and Ethan Setiawan and Fine Ground
Most crowdfunding campaigns offer many of the same perks. Outside of a pre-order of the album, you might get a t-shirt, koozie, sticker, handwritten lyrics or even a house concert. But offering backer perks beyond the usual can be a great lure to get your fans to pledge
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Christa Joy and The Honeybees, Township & Range, and Ro Myra
I've written before about crowdfunding and vinyl as a sales driver, but this month two of my three featured artists gave me a reminder of just how important and expensive it is. In one of those cases, the artist did a breakdown of where her funding goal was
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Three Worthy ‘World Music’ Campaigns
If there is any genre of music with even less concrete definition than Americana, it's ‘world music.’ At its core, world music is really just roots music that doesn't come from America, England, or Ireland. I've seen everything from traditional folk music to country
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: New Albums from Pug Johnson, Charissa Hoffman, Omar Ruiz-Lopez
Over the years I've featured all kinds of crowdfunding campaigns in this space. From artists promoting their first album to those raising funds for their 20th. But I've always had a soft spot for folks running their first campaign. Crowdfunding is hard anytime and it doesn&