It’s no secret that the music industry is plagued with data problems. Incorrect and badly handled...
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.
The Most Effective Way to Release Your Music in 2020
When teaching or consulting independent bands recently, these are the two groups of questions I...
How to Avoid The Biggest Music Career-Killing Mistakes
In my 28+ years as a record producer and founder of The Music Success Workshop, I have learned...
Are We Headed for a Digital Music Apocalypse?
An Interview with Paul M. Fakler, Partner at Arent Fox Digital music services are in the middle of every argument about the music business. Streaming royalties, digital collection, plays, rate...
How Contests Are Killing Your Band’s Career
And Why Bullshit Prizes Make You Lose Out On Real Opportunities... Not a week goes by where I am not inundated with breathless posts and emails from bands and artists spamming me with requests to...
PledgeMusic Responds: “Who’s Accountable When Bands Bail on Crowdfunding Promises?”
Editor's note: the following is an unedited response from PledgeMusic Founder and President Benji Rogers to a post we recently made entitled “Who’s Accountable When Bands Bail on Crowdfunding...
Are Streaming Services Killing Artists?
The technological innovations of the past fifteen-plus years have irrevocably changed the way we consume and experience recorded music. Arguably, the most drastic change is that music is no longer...
Who’s Accountable When Bands Bail on Crowdfunding Promises?
Crowdfunding is a relatively new process, but it's simple; an artist puts out the request for fans to pre-pay for their next project in an effort to fund the aforementioned project. It's been done...
The suit brought by Greg Ginn against the members of Flag has been settled
Just got this message from our friends at SST Records: "The suit brought by SST Records and Greg Ginn against the members of Flag, which was filed in August 2013, has been settled, in an agreement...
Switchcam: Your Band’s Automated Social Media Guru
A Conversation with Brett Welch, Founder and CEO Your band is killer, and your live show is hot. You know this because you can see your fans whipping out their phones taking pictures and videos. But...
How to Make Money on YouTube with Audiam
An Interview with CEO & Founder Jeff Price There’s a music site with 30-35 billion “spins” of music a month. It has over a billion users each month, 40% of those listen on mobile, and 80% of...
How the F@#% Does A Small Label Operate?
An Inside Look at Blood Drunk Records, Atlanta’s Rising Indie Label Blood Drunk Records is a label from Atlanta founded and owned by Brandon T. Pittman (pictured above). This interview’s purposes is...
The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Career Right Now Is…
Make great new music. It’s simple, really. No amount of marketing, licensing knowledge, recording techniques, equipment, social media following, views, clicks, or anything else will help you today...