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Band Management
Learn more about the music business and band management, including music licensing, booking your own DIY tour, music publishing, copyright law, music royalties, music promotion, music distribution and performing rights organizations.
5 Steps to Your 2018 Christmas Music Release
You still have time. You can still bust out a Christmas EP that might net you thousands of new...
Download Pioneer eMusic Pivots to Blockchain
eMusic is old-school, OG MusicTech. It was 20 years ago (1998) when the company launched as the...
Q&A with Onesheet Founder Brenden Mulligan
Performer recently had the opportunity to chat with Onesheet's founder, Brenden Mulligan, to discuss exactly what his new venture brings to the table, and what it means to independent artists....
Q&A with Sonicbids CEO Panos Panay
His Prediction: 90% of All Submission Fees Will Disappear Congrats on Sonicbids' 10th Anniversary. Can you point to any one thing in the past 10 years that you're most proud of? Thanks. It really...
Is GrouponLive Good for Consumers?
Live Nation Entertainment and Groupon have partnered to form GrouponLive, an online ticketing deals channel that will apply Groupon’s discounting approach to Live Nation events. GrouponLive is...
Will Google Control Your Cloud?
Music by Google: Will Internet Giant Control Your Cloud? Users of Google agree - the Internet giant changed the way the world searches for information. Email, chat systems, social networking...
Interview with Earbits CEO Joey Flores
Earbits.com, a new online radio site, formed a collaboration with the San Francisco Chronicle this Wednesday to provide a curated, location-specific music discovery destination. CEO Joey Flores...
Spotify: Is U.S. Launch Good for Artists?
On July 14, Swedish music streaming service Spotify made its U.S. debut. Will Americans grasp onto it as much as our mates across the pond have? On Spotify’s “Hello America” welcome page, the...
Onesheet Launches a New Service for Artists
Onesheet launches simple band web presences to give musicians a consistent and effective online hub amidst the ever-changing environment of social networks. Musicians are constantly having to direct...
Legal Pad: Cloud Computing
Cloud Cover: The Legal Battle Over the Newest Face of the Music Industry OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, APPLE, GOOGLE, AND AMAZON have each rolled out their own unique versions of online locker or...
7 Rules for Effective Social Networking
Part of what motivated me to write this piece is that whenever I read about effective social networking for artists, I saw the same few discussions concentrating on examples of artists who had...
DIY LICENSING: Inside a Music Licensing Office
For many years I have been inundated with questions mostly about copyright. Lately at conferences and in consultations, the overwhelming majority of questions I receive are about music licensing....