Burning Questions

Panaiotis is a professor, musician, and software developer who created the new Bandojo app. He tells me all about it in today’s Burning Questions.

Billy Joe shares insights on curating, working with local and worldly artists, and his fascination with the ghostly space he’s transforming.

Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding platform for filmmakers that focuses on the fair trade between filmmaker and audience.

John Dillon and Vivian Nesbitt created the nationally syndicated radio show Art of the Song, and the new musician funding platform The Standing “O” Project.

Grassrootsy’s Joy Ike explains how to research venues, build your fan base, and make (and lose) money on tour.

Joy Ike shares her road-tested advice on touring: choosing the right venues, playing shows often or not as often, and working the PR hard.

While neck-deep in planning 24 Hours of Art I reached out to Melissa Perales to hear how she helped organize the Torstraßen Festival in Berlin.

With ABQ’s 24 Hours of Art festival imminent, I asked Hannah to catch me up on what Tricklock Company has been up to—both here and in Poland.

Christina shares how she uses Instagram as a creative outlet and how it differs from her work as a professional photographer. Gorgeous photos ahead.

I talked with Skye about craft beers and the ways a good pub can cultivate arts and community. Then I had breakfast.

Jill Brown describes how she found better work-life balance with self-employment, plus a healthy dose of social media marketing.

The last time I saw Sam Miller, we were on a long, long walk across town having a bitch-fest like two ladies knitting at the gin table.

Fans are not family and they are not friends. Remember that. They may become both if invited! But they are not, as fans, invited to your privacy.

Sini Anderson co-founded Sister Spit, the raucous spoken word tour, and directed The Punk Singer, an award-winning doc about Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna.

Rick Lowe’s Project Row Houses began as 22 abandoned shotgun-style houses in Houston’s Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities.

The Handsome Family’s spare, supernatural and timeless sound on their recordings is no accident. Brett Sparks shared how he captures that sound.