When we founded EarToTheGround Music, we always dreamed of having a platform to publish writing about music. We wanted to (and continue to) feature emerging artists in primarily the folk and indie rock genres. However, we are not now nor have we ever …
Category: Music Industry
Book Review: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock’s Greatest Supergroup by David Browne
If you’re a fan of the dynamic rock group Crosby, Still, and Nash, or its sometimes line-up that included fellow icon Neil Young (CSNY), then you’ll be interested in the thorough, detailed book about the famed quartet by music historian David Browne. The …
Artist Spotlight: Superstar YouTuber and Acapella Pop Producer MIKE TOMPKINS
Mike Tompkins has 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube. He’s a musician who uses zero instruments. The music he makes, mostly covers of massively popular hits, is completely made with sounds from his own mouth and voice. But Tompkins is a masterful producer and …
State of the Blog Address: 2019 for EarToTheGround Music
Friends, readers, music lovers, thank you for taking time to read this address. Let us first say thank you. We recently reached 700,000 all-time views on our website, a milestone that seems ridiculously impossible. Our social media continues to grow, with Instagram taking …
Partnering with Hungry for Music: Giving Tuesday and beyond
Well here it is – Giving Tuesday – I’m sure you’ve heard. To celebrate the occasion, EarToTheGround would like to give back a bit. We are supporting an organization called Hungry for Music (https://hungryformusic.org/) that helps children gain access to instruments. The organization …
Announcing our new book – Emerging Artists: Interviews with Musicians from 2013-2018
If you’ve ever appreciated the work we do at EarToTheGround supporting musicians and artists, then we finally made something for you to hold in your hands. Here it is – the highly anticipated interviews book. We complete each interview as a labor of …
Top 25 Indie Rock Blogs for 2018
These ranking articles are really fun to write, even though people don’t always agree with our ranks. But here’s the fun thing about a list like this. You are sure to find a blog or two that you have never heard of before …
Top 25 Folk Music Blogs for 2018
Here it is – the highly anticipated ranking of folk music blogs for 2018. Okay, so maybe not super anticipated, but we definitely see a lot of traffic on these types of articles so we’re happy to put one together. There was definitely …
Five Tips for Naming Your Band
We get the chance to see a lot of band names. We won’t publicly tell you the names of the “bad” but we’ve found some pretty difficult ones. Here are a few things to consider while naming your band. 1) Don’t name your …
How do you discover music?
Let’s call this an editorial with a question. How do you discover music? We hear from a lot of PR firms that they would like artists to be added to our playlists so that you, the readers can discover them. But is that …
