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2008 in review - Blog posts for musicians, Pt 1

December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

It’s been an amazing year for me - a proper round-up of the year will be coming soon. But I thought that first I’d pull together some of the things I’ve blogged about this year. So this is part 1 of a compilation of links to my blog posts for musicians this year -
Back in […]

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Tags: Geek · site updates · the future of music · tips for musicians

Listen to the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album now (if you want to :) )

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

First up, a HUGE thanks to everyone who’s bought the album already - thanks for the feedback, and thanks for investing in the music. It means that (if sales continue as they are) we’ll be able to pay for the pressing of the CD without going into any kind of debt… makes the whole process […]

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Tags: Music News · Musing on Music · site updates

Lawson/Dodds/Wood - Numbers: Available to order and download NOW!

October 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Hurrah! Finally! It’s up.
Yes, I know it took me flippin ages, but it’s there now, in the shop - Click here to go to the store and buy it!
Q - OK, so what do you get for your money?
A - an immediate digital download of the album - encoded at 256kbps (VBR*), beautifully and lovingly […]

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Subscribe to this blog via email…

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I know, it’s terribly old fashioned, and I’m always complaining about it, but the simple truth is, some people prefer to manage their info all in one place - their email inbox - and that’s fine by me. So here’s the place where you can subscribe to this blog via email, and have each post […]

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One from The Vault - interview from BassRocket.com

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

In the process of transferring my website over to this lovely shiny new format, I removed a lot of dead links to reviews and interviews that were no longer online. Fortunately, I knew a few of the writers, and so was able to get hold of transcripts of the original interviews direct from them.
One […]

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Tags: Music News · cool links · journalism · site updates

New site, new blog home, new shop…

May 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

As you’ll have seen by now (unless you’re reading this in an RSS reader), there’ve been a lot of changes round here - the design of stevelawson.net has now shifted into wordpress, the shop is still zencart, but has been given a facelift and most significantly, the blog is now hosted here too, integrated into […]

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stevelawson.net forum upgrade

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve just done a loooong overdue forum upgrade from an old version of PHPBB2.something to PHPBB3.brandnew - head over to

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Easy download of Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline Pt I

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Was just editing the MP3s page on my site to reflect the fact that everything on there is now fully streamable, when it occured to me that the Last.fm widget on there for LLFAAF Pt I makes all the download tracks from that album available direct from the widget… So here it is!

Don’t forget, you […]

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Downloading made easy, the Reverb Nation Widget way!

April 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but you can download all of Lessons Learned from An Aged Feline Pt II from the widget below. It’s a four step process, as follows:
1. click the word ’songs’ at the top of the widget.
2. click on ‘What Was Going On’
3. put your email address into […]

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One True Fan - thoughts on Street Teams.

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

One of the most linked to blog posts in the last few months in the musical blogosphere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on 1000 True Fans - it’s a great piece of writing, and quite inspiring too.
However, I’d like to get away from the numbers for a moment and talk about this whole thing of connecting […]

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