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So fun is cancelled for a while… Gatherings are banned which means the live music industry is closed for business and we’re all missing that luxury we took for granted, going to check out a show. Now thousands of musicians, professional and otherwise, have taken to their bathrooms and kitchens as a sort of...
So Warped tour is ending and this is a larger symptom of a huge problem the industry is going to be facing in the next few years. In the interview where he dropped the bomb, Warped tour founder said, “We were doing fine, but we had a pretty big dip last year. It was that...
by MATT BACON > Hey, so there’s a secret to getting to play all of the cool shows in your local scene and endearing yourself to that long haired mustachioed local promoter who seems to be putting on most of the cool shows. It’s the one thing you can do in order to make sure...
by MATT BACON > So – Vegas happened. It is terrifying to even think about. It is a tragedy and one that I think far too many of us can connect with. Hell – I was watching a band set up in the very square where the attack happened just a month before This is...
by MATT BACON > One of the things that I think people need to come to terms with is that it doesn’t get better in music. No matter what you do and no matter what your achievements might be the odds are that no one is really going to care five years from now, or...
by MATT BACON > So one thing that a lot of bands seem to struggle with is how to book a tour without making fools of themselves by posting all over social media. This is not the way to go, it means that people don’t take you seriously and that you’re not building yourself up...
by MATT BACON > One of the most under sought and yet crucial parts of a cities music scene are obscure little all ages and high school friendly venues. Usually they are run by someone in their mid 20s and they often play host to countless peoples first bands and helps them with their underage...
by MATT BACON > So today I received an good query from a client texting me about the future of their band. While the context was certainly rather specific what it boiled down to, as far as I understood it was, “What if the showgoing audience genuinely just doesn’t care and would rather just see...
by MATT BACON > So, we all saw what happened with the Oakland fire. The hard truth is that it could have been any of us. I only found out about how severe the fire was while I was in a DIY space. It’s a simple reality of being involved in underground music. If your...
The points I’m going to make in this article are going to seem super obvious to some of you and make literally no sense to others. That’s because I’m talking about putting others before yourself, and in the music industry of all places. You’re not going to read about this sort of thing going down...
There is a very specific type of hell you experience before hitting the road – a very specific type of hell that makes the music industry uniquely miserable. It is the hell of pre-tour anxiety. It is the hell of knowing that you have done pretty much all that you can do and for some...
Sunday – the final day of Psycho. I was wiped out – as was pretty much everybody else – but somehow we would have to power through. After all some of the best sets of the festival were to come, as a matter of fact most of my favorite individual performances came on Sunday, which...
