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The latest article that Jason and I wrote for Electronic Musician magazine has just hit the shelves. We interviewed Jonathan Coulton on Promoting Yourself As An Indie Musician which is appearing in the August issue in the Industry Insider column.

Jonathan Coulton is truly an excellent example of a musician that made it on his own…without a label. Although his music is truly catchy and enjoyable, that’s not enough nowadays. And, indeed, as he talks about in the article, he did a lot of hard work reaching out to his fans. In fact, he treated reaching out to them as his day job, waking up every day, and when not doing music, he was on his email, and working on his website.

The rewards of this kind of work shows.  And the best thing is that he was happy to talk about how he did it in the article.

In case you’re curious, we got connected with Jonathan Coulton when we reached out to interview him for the Indie Band Survival Guide. He was happy to talk to us, and had a lot of great advice and stories that we used throughout the book. In person, he’s truly as nice and cool of a guy as you would expect him to be. We enjoyed talking music with him, as well as how he did it himself.

We ran into Electronic Musician after we did the books, and they interviewed us for the same column. After that point, we talked to them about doing some articles ourselves. They were so happy with this first one that they comissioned us for two more which we are working on now, and “more after that.” So, with any luck, you’ll be seeing more of our work in EM in the future.