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Marketing Your Music – Back To The Basics

Due to the promising rise of new comers in the music business, marketing one’s music could be somewhat difficult. Many strive hard to find effective ways market their music.  The most important thing in marketing music is to be creative. Think of ways that can help you market them without having to spend a lot or […]

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Choose Your Band Name Wisely – A Cautionary Tale Of A Name Lost

One thing that every band should worry about when starting, out and very few bands actually do, is their name.  This is something that you will have to live with for your whole career so take the time to put some real thought into it.  When you do decide on a moniker make sure you […]

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RockStage.org – New Company Bringing Artists And Fans Closer Together

We are all aware of the dramatic shift in the music industry over the last ten years or so.  The power of the giant record labels is no more and the business of controlling musicians has collapsed.  Gone are the huge record stores selling physical CDs as well as the high budget music videos playing […]

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Why Doesn’t Your Band Have A Website Yet?

Welcome to the current music world of 2012.  If your band does not have a website yet you should be embarrassed.  I know that you have a free page on Facebook, Reverb Nation, Last.fm, Soundcloud, heck you probably even still have a MySpace page.  But there is no excuse  to not have your own personal […]

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How To Get Your Music Available For Sale Online 3 Minutes From Now

One of the hardest parts for a practicing musician is finding a way to support your art.  One of the largest parts of this is that it is often not that easy to make your music available to your fans.  Getting your own music on iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, MOG, Rhapsody, etc. is not […]

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The Top 5 Essential Secrets Every Recording Musician Must Know – Free Training Video

With the advances in technology recording your music at home has never been easier.  With the right tools any artist can afford to release their music to the world quickly and easily without the help of a record label.  This has helped explode the independent music scene both in number of bands and in the […]

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Singer/Sopngwriter Chris Daniels Discusses How DIY Doesn’t Mean You Have To Do It Alone

Today we have a guest post from Chris Daniels.  He is someone that has been in the business for a long time and has experienced playing thousands of shows with high profile musicians from B.B. King to Ziggy Marley.  Chris ate up all the knowledge he picked up along the way and is also now […]

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Moby Discusses The Future Of The Music Industry

Like him or hate him the fact is that Moby has been a major force in the music industry for many years.  He is also one of the smartest men within the industry.  I had the opportunity to meet him years ago and he is also one of the nicest people that was willing to […]