If you’re like most musicians, gigs are your lifeblood. But when you can’t connect with your...
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.
Let’s #KeepTheMusicGoing with the #EVOpenMic event
Your gigs are postponed, but Electro-Voice wants YOU to keep performing! This May, EV is hosting a...
FREE AmpliTube Orange Tiny Terror Amp to IK Multimedia newsletter subscribers
Sharing today's news from our friends at IK Multimedia: As a thank you from our IK family to...
Boston Based PR Personality Lisa Finelli Talks Her Power of Persuasion, Prepares for NY Show This Thursday
Lisa Finelli has devoted her entire career to making the music industry better. The Boston based Digital Media Specialist and self-proclaimed Artist Ambassador has paved her own path in such a...
Top 3 Things Every Band Thinks Impress Music Journalists, But Actually Don’t
As a music journalist, I receive a plethora of emails from artists pitching themselves hoping for a feature. One major issue I've seen with these pitches is that a lot of artists don't have a great...
Uncommon Touring Tips From Indie Musicians for a Smoother (And Fungus-Free) Trip
Unless you're traveling in a roomy, air-conditioned bus, touring as an independent band is an experience rife with stenches, coin-scrounging, and utter exhaustion. Hitting the road DIY-style is...
5 Reasons Why You Didn’t Reach Your Crowdfunding Goal
It can be incredibly disheartening and even soul crushing to run a crowdfunding campaign that fails. Just because your campaign failed, however, it doesn't mean you're a terrible artist – it could...
Cover Your Ass (and Cover Songs) with Loudr
An Interview with Chris Crawford, CEO/Founder of Loudr on New Ways to License Indie Music It's long been widely known that recording cover songs is a great way to get a new band or artist known....
3 Tips For Composers To Boost Your Networking Skills
The methods of finding work are constantly changing, and the type of music that sells is changing even faster. So Performer Magazine has decided to present "3 Tips For Composers To Boost Your...
Behind The Scenes with Xtra Mile Recordings
Dani Cotter Takes Performer Behind The Scenes with Xtra Mile Recordings, Home of Frank Turner and Against Me! INTRO/TEAM & BACKGROUND We are Xtra Mile Recordings - an independent record label...
3 of the Most Commonly Misunderstood Music Copyright Laws
Some of the people whose work is most intimately affected by copyright law are musicians, yet there are many misconceptions and even outright falsehoods circulating in the musical community when it...
Four Hot Apps With Music Biz Hacks
If you are online at all, it's hard to miss the breathlessness with which every new app is promoted. "It's the Uber of Fitbit, with a Facebook play." One after another, they are launched, and almost...
5 Tips Every Artist Must Know Before Signing Their First Record Deal
You’ve finally made it. A record label recognized your talent and offered you what seems like the deal of a lifetime. But before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you actually understand what...