How musicians create online fan bases
Clive Thompson has written an excellent article for this week’s NY Times Magazine about musicians who have created huge fan bases online. He starts off with the internet-famous Jonathan Coulton, who posts a song a week on his website and has gathered thousands of fans. He even allows people to make music videos of his songs and post them on Youtube, which ended up netting him thousands of even more fans.
And, just for good measure, see below an awesome video one of his fans made for his song “Code Monkey”
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