One modern benefit of technology has been the formation of local musician communities that meet online and in person to engage and create music. Meetup is home to the The NY Musicians Group, which claims some 600+ members. Joining the meetup is as simple as filling out an online form, and will bring you in [...]
New music by Brian Bourque
Performed by The B-Flat Project
Now Available for Download
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Given how slow and choked with advertising Myspace is, it can take forever just to send one message. They have so many useless features, but still manage to make the most basic ones unpleasant. Since most “friends” don’t share their email addresses, your only hope to convey a message to all your Myspace fans is [...]
The web seems host to an unending world of content, and each day I’m discovering more and more great resources for musicians. Articles on just about anything related to music marketing. Dialogue is happening on all levels, from high up at the corporate and start-up biz side, down to the nuts and bolts of engaging [...]
The popular social networking blog Mashable has a post of 90+ sites and tech tools related to all facets of making and interacting with music. The comments list is a year+ growing spore of new and obscure and interesting plugs for music related sites. Definitely worth browsing, as you are sure to find some music [...]
Dan Kimpel was kind enough to add his tips on writing an excellent band / artist biography to The Music Snob wiki, which we are featuring here because it’s a very popular article…Hope it gives you some good ideas for your own bios!
Writing a Great Band or Artist Biography
A bio is the cement that holds [...]
We recently interviewed the founder of Staump.com, Tim Staump, to find out more about his site for independent musicians. Staump.com has created a web community of artists that can share their music via download or streams, and offers some interesting features, including:
Aggregation of band materials from YouTube and Flickr.
Tag-based searching / sorting, instead of single-genre [...]
While we’re on the subject of licensing music with the help of web tools, here’s an interview from April that I just came across with Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor from The OC and Grey’s Anatomy, among other hits, who has come to play quite an important role in helping unknowns get heard internationally.
The good [...]
As CD sales continue to dry up, music licensing has taken on an ever-increasing role in the independent artist’s career. In the old days, the barriers to license music were very high, and the opportunities much fewer for the musician without connections. Today’s web-based world has changed all that; more opportunities than ever exist, but [...]
Last week I wrote a post about “re-title publishing”, and how I couldn’t really find much information on it. Which was part of the problem. Today I talked to the CEO of a popular music licensing service and he explained in detail why this practice isn’t great for artists and that it’s not industry standard.
What [...]
