Kick-off the year by building a solid strategy for your music or your label. This upcoming webinar...
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.
How to Set Up a Killer Interactive Session With Your Fans
Livestreams were a lifesaver for musicians and fans alike during the pandemic, approximating the...
Build a Business, Not a Following
If small business owners in other lines of work took the same advice that has regularly been doled...
With Create Music Group, Data is the Name of the Game
You can gain traction — even some success — all by yourself as an independent artist. We’ve seen many examples of this, whether it’s the perfect playlist add that results in thousands of new...
Premium Lyrics: Curated Words for Serious Songwriters
“Why do I find it hard to write the next line? Oh, I want the truth to be said.” Spandau Ballet’s "True" In 1983, while staying at his parents’ house, Gary Kemp wrote the lyrics to what would...
How Much Liability Insurance Does My Band Need?
We’ve spoken at length about liability insurance for live bands, especially touring bands and those performing at large outdoor events like festivals, fairs and the like. A while back we discussed,...
10 Tips for Making it in Today’s Music Industry
Dear Indie Musician, You’re Not Going to Make It Well, there is ONE secret… It’s harsh, it’s brutal, but it’s also true. As an independent musician, you’re not going to “make it.” What do I mean by...
How to Use YouTube to Promote Your Band
YouTube can be a powerful tool for promotion. But how do you move from gradually increasing the number of your subscribers and views to attracting a wider audience? That's what we'll talk about...
Split Sheets or It Didn’t Happen
Scenario: You come to rehearsal with a new guitar part and some lyrics for a song, but you don’t quite have the chorus worked out yet. You play it for the band, the bass player adds her thing, the...
SCOTUS, Copyright, Sex, and Beer
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, I do not play one on TV, but like Jay-Z, I know a little bit… You know you can’t mail yourself a recording of your song to get copyright protection, right? I mean,...
How to Shop for Entertainer Insurance
We know a lot of you might be headed out on a spring or summer tour soon, and you’ve already gone through the checklist. Van’s in working order? Check. All the gear fits? Check. We’ve got...
Exploring the UK’s Brexit Landscape for Musicians
courtesy of Tim Reckmann, used under a Creative Commons license The songwriter, artist and multi-instrumentalist Brian Christinzio, who performs as BC Camplight, based his excellent 2018 release...
How to get your production music into the right hands
Finders, Keepers: How to get your production music into the right hands via music libraries Production music libraries have become the go-to music tool for many producers and music teams looking for...