YouTube can be a powerful tool for promotion. But how do you move from gradually increasing the...
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.
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...
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...
Canadian Supreme Court Issues New Musical Copyright Rulings
On Thursday, July 12, Canada’s Supreme Court issued five rulings regarding existing or proposed tariffs issued by the Copyright Board under the Copyright Act, four of which directly dealt with music...
Keyboardist Joey Huffman’s Tips for Surviving on the Road
Joey Huffman is a veteran keyboard player who currently tours with Hank Williams, Jr. and has previously toured with Keith Richards, Isaac Hayes, Matchbox Twenty, Soul Asylum, Lynyrd Skynyrd,...
The Experts Weigh In on Press
MEET THE EXPERTS: Name: Lily Golightly Company: Effective Immediately PR Prominent Clients: Paper Garden Records, sami.the.great, Nightmare River Band, XNY Website:...
Legally Produce Your Hip-Hop Mixtape
Quick Tips for Avoiding Some Serious Trouble IN MARCH 2012, KANYE WEST WAS SUED IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT by The Persuaders' Robert Poindexter for $500,000, alleging that a track on Kanye’s...
Business Models of Pirating Websites Studied by Google in UK
Google and PRS for Music recently commissioned a study from data organization company BAE Systems Detica that discovered commercial purposes behind business models used by copyright infringing...
Get Brands to Pay Your Band
A Conversation with My Love Affair’s Renaud Skalli In April 2011, Cathy Guetta (wife of musician David Guetta) and ad exec Raphael Aflalo launched My Love Affair in Europe as a way to connect...
Songkick Introduces Tourbox for Artists: Get More Fans To Your Shows
New publishing tool helps musicians power tour listings across all of their pages and profiles…enter once, publish everywhere. If you’re a band looking to tell hundreds of millions of fans around...
Starting an Indie Label and Getting Signed
An Conversation with Anchor Eighty Four CEO Cody Jones LA-based Anchor Eighty Four Records was first established in January 2010, after CEO Cody Jones moved from Northern California to seek a more...
Best Practices for Following up with Press
A Quick List of Do’s and Don’ts [Editor’s note – at Performer, we receive countless CDs each month, and even more digital submissions. And as advocates for DIY and indie artists, we believe in...
Legal Pad: Recording Covers & Mechanical Licenses
The compulsory mechanical license is a mechanism that allows anyone to record and distribute your composition (or allow you to make a cover of someone else’s work). There are several requirements...