bands

musicxray

Grammy nominated production company is looking for singers, songwriters, rappers, bands, etc. who are fully independent and own all of their own publishing. Seeking to find new, fresh artists, singers, songwriters, bands, rappers, etc. to work with and pitch to labels. All styles and genres welcome, but only send your absolute best.
Ric Robbins
President - Incorporated [...]

musicnomad

In the new era of music marketing and fan relationships, bands need to be creative when it comes to finding ways to raise money from fans to record albums as well as ways to have a deeper relationship with your fans by offering non-traditional music products. Check out the resources and tips on this page [...]

musicgoat

Hey bands, solo artists and promoters! Are you looking to get your music heard by a targeted audience of people who would love to become your fan? Dumb question I know but check out this promotion over at Grooveshark that I am taking advantage of to promote my music
Basically, they are willing to give you [...]

digitalmusicnews

MySpace Music has typically been a starting point for bands and fans online. But can this site actually jump-start an artist career? This is a concern for any artist battling the clutter, and it has also become a greater focus for the MySpace Music team. But… MySpace Music? Why focus too [...]

invisibleoranges

Thou are a case study in running a band in a post-label world. They do three essential things for DIY bands today: (1) give music away for free, (2) interact with fans, and (3) tour. All these activities are related. The first maximizes the number of fans; the second maximizes the dedication of fans. [...]

CNN

In the early to mid-’90s, in the post-”Nevermind” glory days of rock, “alternative” became mainstream and teens and 20-somethings across the United States formed bands, looking for stardom. Nearly two decades later, for every “alternative” artist who’s still selling lots of music and lots of concert tickets (Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Beck), dozens have broken up, [...]

press release

The date for The Sessions Remixed event has been changed to Tuesday, July 13 , 2010 at VIA (262 Pharr Rd, Atlanta, GA 30305) from 7-10pm. The event was originally scheduled for June 15, but was pushed back to the confirmed July date due to scheduling conflicts.
Panelists for the music producer’s session will be [...]

joannaxoxo.blogspot

The basic idea behind record companies and radios is good, right? The artist creates the songs and the company or label tries to increase the amount of listeners for the songs. Seems though as the form has taken over the content today. Trends seem to threaten the future of music itself because they suffocate everything [...]

metalsucks

It’s no secret that the music industry is in shambles. What was once an industry that could stand neck and neck with Hollywood is now just a series of competing guerilla operations. Some richer than others. This is not news. This is talked about every day. All I hear about is how the sky is [...]

news.cnet

With music, there’s no bright line between art and commerce. Ever since the dawn of mass media, when big-band radio shows were commercially sponsored, musicians have explicitly endorsed products or allowed their songs to be used in advertisements. Fuel for that bus isn’t cheap. At the same time, there’s a notion among some musicians and [...]

spinme

It took me six weeks to get to work on this series, even though it had been percolating for months. When I first started working on a live mastermind group for the spring, I knew that I wanted to go beyond the usual conversations about how to make it as a music management professional, so [...]

bandzoogle

Brenden Mulligan founded ArtistData in 2006, to help bands save time by updating all their online profiles (including Bandzoogle) in a single place. Since then, over 20,000 artists have joined the service. We asked Brenden for his take on social networking and growing your fanbase.
Can you share your background, and how ArtistData got started?
Before [...]

techdirt

richw alerts us to a fascinating essay from a member of the band Fucked Up (different, apparently, than the band we recently wrote about going by the name Holy Fuck) explaining the economics of SXSW for bands. Actually, though, it’s much more than that. It explains the economics of the music industry, with a [...]

newrockstarphilosophy

We musicians are good trusting people and it saddens me when our good nature gets taken advantage of. So I’ve compiled a quick list of the most common scams that look for us.
It’s important to note that most scams targeting musicians come through MySpace. Scammers have written bots (programs) to [...]

guardian.co.uk

Over the past few weeks dozens of music journalists have received emails with the subject heading: “We pay journalists to review bands”. The email came from a new music PR agency, The Men From the Press, and is part of a bid to end the traditional mailout of free CDs for review and, controversially, put [...]

13eleven.wordpress

One thing that always strikes me about unsigned artists and bands is how possessive they can be about their music. Now I know that creating music is a very personal experience, and can also be a lot of hard work not to mention the personal expense of getting your lovingly crafted songs onto some form [...]

mi2n

Out of close to 75 OZ & NZ bands or solo artists who were invited to showcase at the world’s largest, longest-running and most prestigious music festival and global industry conference, 36 Australian and 15 New Zealand artists have accepted their invitations to rock out at South by Southwest Music Festival & Conferences in Austin, [...]

nytimes

A few weeks ago Hipster Runoff, a blog that ridicules bohemian culture with hilarious precision, began advertising a “genre shirt.” In photos that seem straight out of an American Apparel billboard, a young woman poses in the T-shirt, which asks, “What kind of music do u listen 2?” and offers, in a matrix of small [...]

creativedeconstruction

I get this question a lot from both artists and artist managers. I have traditionally avoided answering it. This is partly due to the fact that I really don’t cover individual artists very often here at Creative Deconstruction, so I’m probably not the best blogger to ask. But the question keeps coming.
Fortunately, there are plenty [...]

hypebot

Band as brand. Band as brand. Band as brand. Simply put, the most overused, misunderstood phrase by the entire music industry. Sure, having a recognizable audio & visual identity is important – it makes it easier for your fans to recognize you, makes it easier to sell that merch, makes it easier for Fortune 500 [...]

npr

Is it even possible for an artist to sell out anymore? Before you answer “No!” — or mention that the last five bands you discovered were from commercials — read on.
I’m going to begin this essay with a note that Jean Smith sent me. Jean Smith is a novelist and singer in the literary rock [...]

pegasusnews

The Sound and the Jury (S&J), a virtual battle of the bands, is back for its third year and will again offer one lucky band the ultimate grand prize: a slot on the Dell Stage at Austin City Limits Festival (Oct. 2-4, 2009). Bands of all genres have a shot at landing the dream gig [...]

google.com

Videogames are getting their groove on with a collection of new music titles, as bands including the legendary Beatles are won over to a new platform for selling their songs.
The big three videogame console makers and top third-party publishers are showing off their latest titles aimed at fulfilling a seemingly ubiquitous fantasy of being a [...]

daniel kohn
musicthinktank

The answer to this question is simple, straightforward, but not necessarily the easiest to stomach. So here goes…..
Drum roll…..The best way to get booking agents to take you seriously is to ignore them, not worry about them at all and wait for them to eventually approach you.
Ignore them?
Not worry about them?
Wait till they approach [...]

Sarah Rodman
Boston Globe

“Don’t drink the tap water. Watch out for the guns.” This was the advice given to Taisei, lead singer for the Japanese rock band SA, about coming to the United States.
Hopefully, he won’t have to worry about either Monday night when his band plays T.T. the Bear’s Place in Cambridge as part of [...]

p8z

Here’s something to remember: if you receive 1,000 hits a day on your web page, it won’t mean a thing if only one of those visitors is interested in your product. Use your time and energy to generate publicity that brings you a meaningful, targeted audience! Don’t worry about getting thousands of random hits on [...]

Hypebot

An Update On Our View Counts
Video view counts reflect the YouTube community’s interests and the grassroots popularity of videos. We periodically make changes that allow us to display consistent view counts and accurately reflect a “real” view based on video consumption, video streaming and spam filtering. Unfortunately, a few people still try to artificially manipulate [...]

live-music-blog

Here is probably the the majority necessary music business tip you’ll ever receive:
“Join up and subscribe to every independent music business and DIY band promotion email list, newsletter and resource that you can get your hands on and read everything that you receive”.
I mean it when I say that too much information is much better [...]

Heather McDonald
musicians.about

Session musicians are essentially “for hire” musicians. They perform with solo artists and bands, but they are not officially part of the group. Session musicians play on recordings, play in live shows or both. Although some give and take may happen during recording, session musicians usually show up and play what they are asked [...]

Alyssa Braithwaite
brisbanetimes.com.au

A record 31 Australian music acts - including Gabriella Cilmi, Youth Group and The Grates - will travel to Texas over the next week for the influential South By SouthWest (SXSW) festival.
The annual event at Austin presents an opportunity for Aussie bands and performers to show their stuff in front of an international gathering [...]

IAN NATHANSON
METRO CANADA

Among the hundreds of bands, solo artists and such who congregate at Canadian Music Week festivities each year, all share one common premise: Getting noticed — by the right people, in the right place, at the right opportune moment.
And if attempts to stand out in a crowd of some 500 Canadian, U.S. [...]

Jemima Kiss
guardian.co.uk

Ooizit’s pitch is for a new generation of marketing and promotion for bands that uses social networks to build profile and support both online and offline. Founder Thomas Fearn launched the site in beta mode in May last year, and employs four staff at the Derbyshire base with modest funding from an angel investor.
Competition [...]

Bandize is a common place, a place that’s accessible from anywhere, one that all band members can view and contribute to, one that’s already set up for you the way bands need it to be. It’s true organization for bands.
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What began as a hobby for Nick Staver became a much greater and more time-consuming love for music.
And Staver’s best friend and band manager Tony Diehl knows it takes more than just a love for music to make it as a band. Over the past seven years, Diehl has found managing a band is more [...]

Performing with your own band is an exhilarating experience. But before you can have your moment on stage, you need to get a group of musicians into the same room to learn some music. And musicians have a knack at being slightly unorganized, slightly tardy, slightly hungover from last night’s gig, and numerous other habits [...]

One of the most exciting experiences for a young band is going into the recording studio for the first time. How that first recording session turns out can depend a lot on the band’s attitude and level of preparation going in. I’ve made a list of some things to think about before and during a [...]

(The Learning Curve) Ok kiddies, here is your lesson for this week. There is a small chance you have heard of one or two of these bands, but the others? You probably haven’t, but you know them now.
There is some experimental and ambient music with Ascension of the Watchers, and electronic euphoria with Julien-K and [...]

WHAT ARE ROYALTIES & HOW DO I GET THE MONEY?
This is a very large and complex topic and this is just a very basic guide. I have had a lot of questions from bands, songwriters & media composers. This is based on my experience in the UK as a composer, so it may or may [...]

Have you ever picked up one of those weekly magazines you’ll find in any given city and seen all of the bands listed for performances all over that paper? You see them playing sometimes three nights in a row in a radius of less than 15 miles, and then they wonder why they have such [...]

The LPM Voice Magazine has made it possible for their online readers to download free music right from the pages of their Rock Music Magazine as well as from their “Band of the MONTH” Featured Artist Profile which is brand new to the LPM Voice webpage. Readers can now have the opportunity to experience the [...]

Yes, the traditional concert season lands in the heat of summertime.
But the best time to get acquainted with local bands may just be wintertime. Sure, some hibernate and write and record as the snow falls outside, but many others take advantage of the prime slots available at clubs — not to mention the masses still [...]

After a couple of failed attempts on getting our band Georgia Wonder on Wikipedia, we finally succeeded and learned a bunch of stuff on the way. It’s really not as hard as you think to get yourself on there, but there are a few things you need to know to make sure your content stays [...]

Philly.com, the web site of the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Inquirer, has launched a new, local music site called phrequency.com, according to Philadelphia Media Holdings, which own both papers.
“The site is dedicated to the local Philadelphia music scene and combines reviews, videos, artist profiles, event listings, music downloads and user comments for a comprehensive [...]

So it goes like this…
I’m innocently reading several blog posts and these two caught my attention:
* Do Brands Belong on Twitter?
* Why Brands ABSOLUTELY DO Belong on Twitter
Both articles provide an interesting take on companies utilizing Twitter to promote brand awareness. And it got me thinking about you, your music and YOUR brand on Twitter [...]

Succeeding in today’s music business depends on connections – with the right people, information, advice, tools, services and technology that are available to music creators. But discovering what is truly important can be challenging. ASCAP’s annual three-day “I Create Music” EXPO makes it easy and worthwhile. It is the one place where serious songwriters, composers [...]