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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.
Marketing Your Streams with Feature.fm
Music streaming has changed the landscape of the music business greatly for consumers, labels, and...
How to Present Your Ideas Creatively to Attract Sponsors
There are many ways to attract sponsors. You can directly contact them, or you can attract them...
LEGAL PAD: What You Should Know About Likeness Rights
Album Art, Promo Materials and the Law Designing the artwork for your band’s gig posters, website, album covers and promotional materials is no easy task. Between artist designs, photographs...
Tips for Booking Your Band at 2012 Festivals
It’s never too early to begin thinking about getting your band booked at a summer festival. Performer recently had a few experts weigh in on the...
LEGAL PAD: The Basics Behind Sync Licenses
What You Need to Know About Sound Recordings vs. Musical Compositions Every sound recording has two copyrights: a copyright for the musical composition and a copyright for the sound recording. Any...
Album Art, Packaging & Design Consulting with Phil Yarnall of SMAY DESIGN
As president of SMAY DESIGN, Phil Yarnall has been creating unique, intelligent design and packaging for the music and entertainment industry for...
Create The Perfect One-Sheet
We all know that the days of bulky press kits have passed – no longer do musicians need to send 8.5”x11” glossy headshots and multi-page biographies in order to book a gig or get press. Still,...
A Legal Guide to Touring The UK
HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN BANDS WILL TREK ACROSS THE POND THIS YEAR to tour the United Kingdom. Breaking through in the UK has become a tried and true method for bands in the States to expand their...
What We Learned from CMJ 2011
WHERE: New York City WHEN: October 18-22 HIGHLIGHT: Panels of experts giving bands real career advice. Performer Magazine had the...
LEGAL PAD: Start Your Own Label (Part 2 of 2)
RELEASING AN ALBUM WITH COAST-TO-COAST MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION was once a high cost, high risk game. Today, startup labels have access to endless low-cost resources for promoting, marketing, and...
How to Start a Management Company and Get People to Take You (Somewhat) Seriously
How I got the idea, and got started Last year when my band Oranjuly was planning the CD release for our debut album, I looked at the list of things that needed to be done and thought, “I wish we had...
Sending Clean Links to Music Supervisors
So Fresh And So Clean, Clean! "Send me a clean link." This may be the most important sentence you ever read from a music supervisor. Why? It means that a) they are actively accepting music for a...