Denim and cotton are beloved favorites of stitchers. It’s so fun to sew you often see it at Sewing Bees and charity events. Thanks everyone for sending us great cowboy music links on YouTube. It feels 100% wholesome. Maybe it started with Tucker and Kid Rock’s summer tour, Anthony Oliver, or Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, but now the Sourcing Journal is talking about summer festival denim trends too. We love hearing about the sold out shows and people having a blast. Obviously, Hollywood has cut its shows by 50% from 600 to 300 so the music industry is riding the below the line talent wave, but it’s a good wave. Hollywood has imploded, multiple times, since it was created in the...
Some say the start of the last war and the remaking of the earth into a paradise begins with a trumpet, but if we had to guess it's going to include a few fiddles too. Found another great scifi violin artist: VioDance. Beyonce’s Cowboy Album seems to be hitting the charts with #1 and summer is a denim music festival trend. We did Space Cowboys in February fashion week for our collection because we loved it. This is unexpectedly nice. NYC FIT school also has a beautiful denim exhibit worth checking out. Win. Lindsey Stirling also did great this week, but she gets her own post just on Inner Gold. If you’ve seen the Star Wars bar music scene, you...
In our life when art takes a leap forward in technology, musicians figure it out first. After writing off social media as currently useless, YouTube seems to be getting some really great scifi music covers. Goes to show that you don’t know it all. Particularly Tina Guo. Not sure yet if this is an Apple feature on garage band or what, but if anyone is old enough to remember Kenny G and all that 90s elevator music, this feels like the actual AI $$$ door that’s about to open. Which brings us to a particular point, it is the backgrounds and not the costumes or performers that seem to be getting the upgrade. You could see restaurants embracing a projector...
The shop is doing a bit of music platform testing. Most shops will play classic rock or local radio stations, but we’re going to try each of the major services which all range around $10-20/month. Essentially, less than the price of Netflix. Amazon is a big player in the game so we’re starting there for the next two months. On the upside it appears to be able to generate a custom list in a few minutes. The downside is nothing seems to be local. Given Amazon owns Whole Foods, really surprised no one in their management team has decided to cash in on promotional tours for busking live folk music in stores. Given Amazon does digital credits, they could be...
After writing off all other music platforms except Spotify, there’s been a bit of a shop discussion on YouTube/Google, Amazon, iTunes, etc. Maybe the answer isn’t as clear cut as we thought. None of us play a musical instrument professionally or busk so this is a bit of a learning curve. Obviously, the peak time retailers interact with busking is mid-November through December when 60% of retail business sales take place. Thanksgiving weekend is called Black Friday for a reason. We don’t know the answer, but we’re having fun looking for a bit. Friend’s older college kids seem to be into the free park rehearsals or afternoon $5 cafe busking for lunch money. We're that old now. The park part is a...