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...
A Quick Guide to YouTube Advertising for Musicians
Today's society loves a good visual, so music videos, live performances, and even lyric videos are becoming huge components in a musician's tool kit. Plenty of fans stumble upon new music from...
The Revolutionary (And Easy) Way For Songwriters To Make Money Licensing Lyrics
Turn Your Lyrics into a Revenue Stream A Conversation with LyricFind on the Golden Age of Legal Music Lyric Search Lyrics are often overlooked by a music industry that runs on flash and sizzle. I...
9 Secrets From Indie Artists for Selling a Ton of Merch After Their Shows
You packed the house. You had a fantastic performance. The entire crowd loved every minute of your set. Now you have to turn that enthusiasm into album and T-shirt sales. How do you go about doing...
4 Tools Under $20 a Month You Can Use to Run Your PR Campaign
Two universal themes almost every band faces are not enough time and not enough money. You want to take your band to the next level, but it may seem like there's a road block at every turn. If...
6 Types of Music Promotion You Might Be Overlooking
This article was originally published at Sonicbids.com. It has been reposted here with permission. You've probably been told a million times by now that internet marketing (i.e., social...
20 Ways to Better Promote College Gigs
What is the secret to being successful in the college entertainment market? Here we provide tips and tricks of how to assure that you are playing to a full house, and that your name is spread...
6 Insanely Creative Ideas for Your Band’s Facebook Cover Photo
*This article was originally posted at Sonicbids.com. It has been republished here with permission. With Facebook's timeline layout, your cover photo is the billboard of your social media page. You...
How Much Should a Music PR Campaign Cost?
This article originally appeared on Sonicbids.com. It has been republished here with permission. Good PR isn't cheap. Nor is it free. If you can't afford a legit PR campaign, then chances are you...
3 Things Every Indie Artist Should Learn From Nielsen’s 2014 Music Industry Report
You’ve heard it from everyone from Bob Lefsetz to David Byrne: the music industry is dying. At first glance, Nieslen’s annual music industry report seems to back up this sentiment. The report, a...
7 Reasons Why Your Band’s PR Campaign Didn’t Work
I've already discussed the not-always-obvious signs your PR campaign worked, and how its success is not measured in clips or record sales, but in conversations, buzz, social media growth, name...