
Are your music marketing efforts paying off?
Tony van Veen discusses how to identify whether the blood, sweat, and tears you’re sinking into your marketing efforts are actually paying off and translating into meaningful revenue. Guest post. Continue reading

Smart links: A critical tool for the business-savvy artist
The team at Amplify.link breaks down what a smart link is and the different ways that they can be used to market music. Guest post from AmplifyYou of Amplify.Link What. Continue reading

MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: First live show • Tools for making music • Take a helping hand • More
On MusicThinkTank this week, our contributors shared articles covering how to prepare for your band’s first live show, ten tools musicians should utilize when making music, how to learn to. Continue reading

Meet Erinn Knight, President of Build Your Own Dreams
In this edition of A2IM’s Featured Executive column, we are highlighting the accomplishments of Atlanta GA’s Erinn Knight, founder of the label/creative marketing agency Build Your Own Dreams. Guest post. Continue reading

Your Morning Coffee Artist Spotlight: Nancy Wilson of Heart
To commemorate the first anniversary of the Your Morning Coffee podcast co-hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart had a very special “coffee talk” with the co-founder, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Continue reading

Nashville’s indie venues join to enforce COVID entry rules, launch #Keep615Live campaign
Nashville’s independent live music venues have joined to send a united message to fans to get vaccinated, get tested, or don’t even try to come to a show. Venues coming. Continue reading

How to practice music like an Olympic athlete
Regardless of what musical style you gravitate toward, developing a solid, consistent practice routine is essential to setting yourself up for a successful music career. Here, we look at some. Continue reading

Now you can bring home the scent of a record store
Do you love how a record store smells? No judgment here. Now you can replicate that familiar scent of pressed vinyl and warm woods anywhere with the Record Store candle. Continue reading

Labels are about to become more like VCs [Mark Mulligan]
Streaming is leading to series of seismic shifts in the music industry that will fundamentally change the relationship between artists and record labels forever. “(Artists) are viewing labels as accelerators. Continue reading

Submit to be part of Hit The Decks #2
Indie label This & That Tapes produces a wickedly cool lo-fi magazine about cassette culture called Hit the Decks and you – musicians, writers, and artists – can be part. Continue reading

Music Think Tank: Call for your submissions!
A huge shoutout to the devoted MusicThinkTank readership for all the valuable and insightful content that many of you have shared, but we want more smart people to join the. Continue reading