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Crowd-Funding 101: What Every Musician Needs for a Successful Campaign

Posted 10/16/2012 at 10:57am | by Laura B. Whitmore

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Brooklyn-based guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Sonia Montez failed her first time around at a crowd-funding attempt. Her Kickstarter campaign only funded 25 percent and she had to walk away with no money at all. “It was rushed. I was kind of pushed into it. And I had a bad feeling from the beginning,” she says. “It was heart breaking.”

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Guitar Girl'd: Interview with The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Kicking Ass with Kickstarter

Posted 06/05/2012 at 6:49am | by Laura B. Whitmore

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What happens when you want to record an album and you don’t have the funds or the deal to make it happen? Do you give up? Not if you’re The Fabulous Miss Wendy! The shredalicious Wendy Jacobson turned to Kickstarter and is now in the recording studio with Tim Patalan and Vinnie Dombroski from Sponge.

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