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Here’s one of the key things that I’ve noticed a lot of bands struggle with that ruins their careers almost right off the bat every time. It’s not being able to control their emotions. This impacts every single aspect of your music career, not just the relationships it sours but the bad press it generates...
Here’s a new litmus test I’ve been using in order to help bands determine if they have reasonable goals to develop themselves within their scene. It’s an easy one too. If you can’t name 5 record labels who would realistically pick your band or a band like yours up for your next record assuming everything...
So I just saw a pretty major band that I used to manage broke up. And they broke up because the singer decided to be whiny and was upset that even though his band had only really been touring for two years and was getting cool record deals he still felt he wasn’t where he...
Oof – this is a hard one and one that I think haunts a lot of people trying to get somewhere substantial in the music industry. It’s the sort of thing that a lot of bands end up being confused by and thus don’t even bother with at all. This is problematic because you kind...
Something I see a lot of bands complaining about is how a lot of the energies of industry people tend to go into legacy acts and reunions. Now I totally get that, its a hard thing to be a band grinding it out on the road and then see some group of old dudes reunite...
So there’s this thing going around the internet lately about how Facebook is starting to deal with record labels and how they are trying to purchase rights to massive swathes of music in order to start funneling even more content through what is probably the most used website in the world that isn’t named Google...
by MATT BACON> There’s a lot of articles out there about labels ripping you off. Or how it is all set up in a way that very much dicks over artists and how folks who engage in it are unrepentant assholes. There are also a lot of articles outlining how a record deal works and...
by MATT BACON > So one thing that I’ve seen happen to tons of bands that I work with is differentiating between real and bogus record deals. Every day dozens, if not hundreds of bands think they’ve finally made the big time and end up signing a record deal that hurts their reputations, makes them...
by MATT BACON > One of the most frustrating parts of the music industry is the big catch 22 that being a part of this places you in. On the one hand you need to tour heavily in order to seriously increase brand awareness and try and meet the right people, on the other hand,...
by MATT BACON > So as regular readers of this blog know, a fair amount of the content within is basically just my ruminations on various business models that I think make the most sense in the industry as it stands today. The latest iteration of this is my model for record labels. Now I...
by MATT BACON > One of the things that bands seem to screw up the most and give me the most headaches with is contracts. Now this isn’t really a complaint – it’s the fact that I can read contracts and understand them that makes me able to have a job after all. I think...
There are certain fundamental truths in the music industry that I can guarantee will really free up your thinking. One of these truths that changed my entire strategy for developing bands is this: Every big independent label is trying to be bought by a major. I mean maybe not every one. I’m sure there is...
