We love listening to music here at Indie Band Guru. Reality is that to stay on top of our journalistic game we need to do more than listen to the songs. We need to dive deep into the stories behind them and the artists who write them. I am not ashamed to say that we […]
Author: Keith Pro
Forever a music lover who has been everything from musician to promoter to manager to booking agent to publicist to blogger to record label founder to a degree from Berklee College of Music in Music Business.
It is great to see a young band work hard and achieve their goals. Staying together is not easy, especially for a band with teenagers in it but the guys in Don’t Know Dorothy are a group of young men on a mission. The Kansas City based rock band writes clever and catchy songs driven […]
Our parents will always be a huge influence in our musical journey. What a child hears and sees in his formative years will often guide them into the tough career choice of a musician. I personally remember laying on the shag carpet of the living room as a kid staring at the ceiling listening to […]
Yes it is true that each area of the world has their own specific musical style but these styles are now recognized everywhere and bands are popping up in every corner of the globe playing these different styles. The Blues began in the southern part of America but can now be heard everywhere by talented […]
I know sometimes it sounds like Indie Band Guru is preaching to you on how to run your band’s business while we are not in the trenches ourselves anymore. That is why we love to share real advice from real bands that are out there taking what they learn and putting it into practice to […]
It is true that the internet has made it much easier to share your music and get some fans around the world. There is still no replacement for getting up in front of a crowd at a concert venue and putting on an impressive show that melts faces and gains “real” fans that you will […]
If I had a nickel for every teenager that got a guitar and thought they were going to be a rock star I would be a very rich man. Most kids don’t realize the hours of practice needed to become proficient on the instrument or the hard work needed to actually compose a quality song. […]
With the use of new technology and the ability to file share with anyone, anywhere, the music world has become a much smaller place. When a musician can not find any local talent that has the same vision of sound he can turn to the internet and find the like minds needed to make this […]