Outside The Box Music

On Friday, Congress finally gave up trying to pass an ill advised piece of legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) it’s sister bill in the Senate. Rep. Lamar Smith from TX, SOPA’s main sponsor pulled the bill saying, "I have heard from the [...]

Introduction What Is SOPA? How We Got Here The RIAA’s Recent History The Effect of Piracy on Music Existing Statutes SOPA From An Artist’s Perspective But They’re Stealing My Stuff! Where To From Here Introduction Photo of Tootsie’s Nashville by Kathleen Tyler Conklin. Creative Commons License. I am a Nashville based performing songwriter, bioinformaticist and [...]

“Charles Alexander’s workshops are a joyful evening of goal setting, career planning and social media know-how that are a must-have for any independent artist…” – Lydia Hutchinson, Founder of Performing Songwriter Intro To Digital Marketing Series On Wednesday, January 18th we again present Rock Your Net’s hugely successful & popular “Intro To Digital Marketing” workshop [...]

This year the mainstream music establishment was preoccupied with letting the indie/DIY community know they were "Not Good Enough." In fact, some gatekeeping factions of even the DIY/Indie community seemed to reinforce this theme (more on this later). Who’s A Grammy Darling? The rumblings started in February at The Grammys when Esperanza Spalding won Best [...]

We’re offering up some specials on workshops, digital music marketing and web development/strategy for the holidays.  Sign up on the mailing list at the top right hand corner (ie. “Get In The Loop”) and we’ll make sure we get that info right to you. Gift Certificates Here are gift certificates you can buy in various [...]