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Why Instant Live Recordings Are Important For Your Music Career
An Exclusive Interview with Live Streaming Pioneer Brad Serling Live music fanatics have known of...
How to Pitch, License, and Sell Your Music Online
Store, Pitch, License, and Sell All of Your Music Online with Songtradr Maybe you've been storing...
6 Rules For Not Pissing Off Music Supervisors
I'm writing from the beautiful Hyatt in Los Angeles while finishing up details on a music supervision project for a film. This one was a beast. Over 30 cues (and six original compositions), in...
How to Make Money From Your Band’s YouTube Spins
SESAC Acquires Rumblefish: Monetizing Your Band’s Video Spins Just Got Easier I've long said, "Where there is video, there is music." With CD and download sales all but obliterated, abysmal...
Get Paid: Learn Who’s Collecting Your Music Royalties
Being a musician is not as simple as writing a song, recording an album, selling it, and getting money from your sales. As an independent musician trying to learn a real living off of making music,...
4 Simple (But Effective) Tips For Selling Your Music to TV, Movies & Commercials
Most musicians don’t exactly dream of hitting the big time by being background music, however any time a film or TV studio, production company or someone else wants to use your composition, they...
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...
Download Performer’s Guide to Licensing & Distribution
Performer's committed to bringing you the most useful advice when it comes to your career. That's why we're bringing you the third installment in our FREE industry guides - quick PDFs jam-packed...
BMI to Mark 75th Anniversary with Book Launch, Video Projects and More
Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), the global leader in music rights management, will celebrate the 75th year of its founding in 2014. To mark this milestone, the Company has announced a year-long...
The November Issue is Here, featuring Dog Party, Ben Kweller, La Luz, The Dismemberment Plan & of Montreal
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Make Money Selling Holiday-Themed Music or: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (For Indie Music)
Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa! I know, I know, it's only November; so what's with all the holiday brouhaha? Simple, these next few months could explode your musical career, if you...
Make Money on YouTube with ONErpm
There's a saying in the startup world by founder Marc Barros of Contour Cameras: "The best product does not always win, the product everyone knows about does." I often repeat this when I speak at...