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Billy McCall joins us on the Self-Employed Happy Hour podcast to talk about the Zine Olympics at ABQ Zine Fest, stories from the casino floor and more!

Eryn joins us to chat about being an independent musician, recording her latest album Firefly, and building her music career one lesson at a time.

We chat with Eric—Organizer at Startup Weekend New Mexico and other groups—about cool stuff happening with art and tech, news on start-ups in NM and more.

This time on the Self-Employed Happy Hour podcast are guests Kendra Crooks and Austin Madrid of JAK Media: they’re a year into their photography business.

Cactus Tractor tells more tales of their “U.S. Tour in the Shape of Yemen.” This time in Shawnee, OK, they’ve found artists, coffee, and hamburgers.

Fresh off the plane from a summer in Europe playing backup in another band’s tour, Sam Miller comes to the Pyragraph Studios to podcast with us and shake off his jet lag with mimosas and breakfast burritos.

In this Reboot Edition of the Self-Employed Happy Hour podcast, Peri is joined by Pyragraph Senior Contributing Editor Sage Harrington, Contributing Editors Josh Stuyvesant and Jeremy Kinter, and Contributing Editor at Large Eva Avenue.

Web comic creator The Oatmeal has built an online empire by making the types of things at which you laugh until tears comes to your eyes. Here he weighs in on the ever-evolving music industry.

Writer Chuck Wendig recently posted a great piece at his blog; it was written in response to questions that people sometimes put to him about how long it’ll take them to write, edit, or publish their works. These people are probably wondering how long it’ll take for writing to pay a bigger chunk of the rent, or when it Read more ›

Music boxes were first created hundred of years ago when watchmakers (as in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Artist of the Beautiful {also at The Literature Network}) would painstakingly handcraft each one. Now, that process is getting a makeover with 3D printing technology. Left Field Labs is a digital creative agency that focuses on bringing technology into harmony with the Read more ›

How do you run a good YouTube channel? Industry insider Jon Baltz will tell you: it’ll take planning and dedication, among other things–it’s more than just uploading videos. I think this problem applies to any aspect of the music industry, from album releases to tours: People don’t go into the YouTube platform with a distinct Read more ›

Musicians: posting songs on the web free of charge can lead to income, if you’ve got a good strategy. LOSS LEADER: Definition: “a pricing strategy where a product is sold for free or below its market cost to stimulate other sales.” The most common example of loss leaders in music is when new artists offer Read more ›

Independent musicians seem not to care too much about award shows, the Grammys included. Why is this, when this year “independents scored 50% of nominations and last year independents took home over 40% of the awards” and “unlike many other music awards, the GRAMMYs are awards bestowed by our music industry creator peers”? Rich Bengloff Read more ›

There’s a point you may have reached in your progression as an artist: you’ve become so familiar with your craft that you may find yourself coasting. When you’ve reached that point, how do you continue to evolve? Maria Popova, curator of Brain Pickings (a great repository of wonderful ideas) writes an article in which she Read more ›

Art restorers know what to do when physical pieces of art are damaged or show signs of age, but what are the guidelines for restoring digital art? This is new territory: turns out these guidelines are just being created. Paintings fade; sculptures chip. Art restorers have long known how to repair those material flaws, so Read more ›

With its new collaborative series, Heart of the City, 516 ARTS addresses many of the problems that Downtown Albuquerque, along with many other urban environments, face: fragmentation, broken-up communities, and the shortage of basic services, among other things. Does Downtown serve as the heart of the community? How can we improve it? You can also access Read more ›