Like many Gen X rock music fans, I consider KISS to be the band that started me on my rock and roll journey. The music, the mystique and the showmanship all contributed to the intrigue. And though I never got the chance to see them before they “unmasked” themselves, my first KISS concert on the […]
How Independent Hard Rock Bands are Building Fan Bases on Their Own
The music industry has drastically changed due in large part to technology. It all started on June 1, 1999, when computer programmer, Shawn Fanning, launched the beta version of Napster – the first peer-to-peer file sharing platform. And though the original free version of Napster was shut down in 2001 due to illegal sharing of […]