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Ever notice your favorite music magazines disappearing from the store shelves as of late? The print industry has seen better days. It’s safe to say at this point that it is well on it’s way out. Every month, more and more magazines are switching to online formats or folding completely. Does this mean there are...
(An excerpt from “Your Band Is A Virus“) Indie bands – How do you build a website? Well, the good news is you don’t really need to know how – or at least any html method. First you’ll want to buy your domain at a website such as www.godaddy.com. There are many reasons why to stick...
For a very wide view of how music fits in with who we are and where we’re going, I encourage you to take a close read of Real Music Media. Writer John Gump does an excellent job framing this within a context of not just the music industry, but humanity as a whole. He’s got...
Another very informative blog on the digital age of music consumption comes from Krzysztof Wiszniewski, The Cynical Musician. He goes over some great points and figures on music streaming websites (Spotify, Last.fm and Rhapsody) and debates the rosy picture we have culturally created for ourselves on the topics of music file sharing and consumption. The survival...
Recently I posted a piece on my Hubpages blog about two radically different approaches to music marketing and two radically different cultural perceptions as a result – the rise to stardom of Rebecca Black and Tyler The Creator. Many outsiders and unsigned musicians alike tend to get stuck in the question of what will simply...
Indie bands – Have you been collecting royalty cheques from streaming services such as Spotify? Chances are you haven’t. You may want to take a quick look at this rather excellent blog by David McAndless from Information Is Beautiful, that shows the real truth about what it takes to actually make money on streaming services...
So you have a very small pool of ACTUAL buyers. This is something a lot of artists feel self conscious about. Most independent bands would be embarassed to answer the question “How many CD’s have you sold?” This is normal and it’s nothing to feel bad about. It makes perfect sense, though, to maximize your exposure wherever...
