As a music journalist, I receive a plethora of emails from artists pitching themselves hoping for a feature. One major issue I’ve seen with these...
Some of the people whose work is most intimately affected by copyright law are musicians, yet there are many misconceptions and even outright falsehoods circulating...
Let’s say you’re at a show or rehearsal and you turn to your amp, or perhaps your mixer, and you need to make something louder....
Any band that’s toured at least once knows that attendance at shows varies not only city by city, but also day by day. Scheduling events...
Modern technology has drastically changed the nature of working as a session musician. These days, many session players have almost as much skill as audio...
Setting prices for your T-shirts, vinyl, seven-inches, and even buttons is not unlike designating a price for any other retail good. You’ve got to consider...
If you’re like most of the musicians that we see coming into the studio, you don’t have a major label financing the recording/mixing/mastering of your...
There seems to be a divide between physical merchandise: from CDs, tapes, and records to T-shirts, other branded items, and digital downloads. The latter is...
YouTube accounts for nearly a fifth of all internet traffic, and you can be sure that a lot of music consumption comes from the platform, too. It’s commonplace...
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...