Chris Griffy

This month's crowdfunding radar rounds up three worthy campaigns with streaming at the core of their asks.

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

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

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

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

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