Don’t Forget The Power Of Offline Promotion
(UPDATED) This post comes courtesy of Brad at CD Baby and their D.I.Y. Musician blog. While maintaining a steady web presence is a vital part of any musician’s promotional arsenal,. Continue reading
PRS’ Will Page Weighs In On Too Much Debate
(UPDATE 2) In response to my recent essays on music choice, Will Page, Chief Economist at UK performing rights society PRS for Music, sent over this video from a few. Continue reading
RouteNote Launches Cheaper Digital Distribution
Through August 31 of this year, UK based RouteNote is running a launch promotion for their Premium digital music distribution platform. Instead of paying a yearly fee and keeping 100% of revenues,. Continue reading
Hypebot Assumes Stewardship Of MusicThinkTank.com
We're honored to share today that we've assumed the stewardship of the respected Music Think Tank web site. We believe that the combined sites create the web’s most viewed independent. Continue reading
Free Manual: How To Attract Brands To Your Music
International communication and branding agency Heartbeats International has released a manual for bands and artists on how to build a successful strategy to attract brands. Jakob Lusensky, CEO & Founder of Heartbeats,. Continue reading
Jonathan Coulton: Does Net Famous Mean Famous?
Off The Internet & Onto The Stage Those of us who work in and write about d.i.y. and the new music business are always interested in artists who have built. Continue reading
Andrew Dubber: Shut Up And Listen To Your Fans
As someone who once spent the better part of an internship solving captcha puzzles and spamming ‘potential fans’ for artists on MySpace, I found Andrew Dubber’s recent article on Social. Continue reading
MySpace360Wizard Launch & Account Giveaway
MySpace360Wizard gives artists an easy and relatively cheap way to design their MySpace profile. Normally, this type of profile generator isn't something I get too excited about, but it seems like the right. Continue reading
GigsWiz Opens Free Beta To All Artists
GigsWiz has opened its free fan request widget to all artists. Still in open beta, the service is designed to to help bands and their agents quantify the demand for gigs geographically,. Continue reading
YouTube Introduces Free Video Editing Tool
With the introduction of YouTube’s free editing tool, it's clear that Google is extending its cloud computing initiatives beyond the consumption of content to enabling the creation of it too. The. Continue reading
