The Indie Band Survival Guide just released their paperback version through St. Martin’s Griffin publishing. The guide, which has steered a whole generation of indie bands in the Do-It-Yourself direction, originally started as a licensed Creative-Commons PDF document and quickly made a name for itself in the spheres of new upcoming bands trying to get [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The indie band survival guide: the complete manual for the DIY musician now available in paperback version
Posted in Booking & Promotion, tagged band, beatnik turtles, indie, indie band survival guide, indie bands, jason Feehan, music business, pdf, randy chertkow, upcoming bands on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
SoundsBox: 14 cents for a song is almost like downloading it for free
Posted in Industry Talk, tagged 14 cent downloads, affiliate program, low mp3 prices, mp3, music downloads, music industry, music store, myspace music, roms, russian multimedia and internet society, soundsbox on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
SoundsBox is a relatively new Russian online music store launched barely a year ago that does the same ol’ things as all the other online music stores out there: they sell music from a vast catalog of artists. One major difference though, SoundsBox sells tunes for only 14 cents offering the most competitive prices [...]
Derek Sivers on essential work ethics for musicians
Posted in Industry Talk, tagged berkley college of music, cdbaby, derek sivers, professional musician, six things i wish i knew the forst day of berkley on September 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s our second Derek Sivers video for this week. This speech was given at the Berkley College of Music in early September of 2008. Entitled “Six things I wish I knew the first day of Berkley”, Derek breaks down a series of generalized concepts he encourages aspiring professional musicians to apply in order to master [...]
Derek Sivers on confidence and how it affects your music career
Posted in Industry Talk, tagged cd baby, cdbaby, confidence, derek sivers, founder of cdbaby, full-time musician, music career, music industry on September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is the first of two videos we’ll be posting of Derek Sivers on his insights and advice on how to succeed as a musician. The founder of CDBaby was a full-time musician before his website got massively popular, and now he has become a very respected figure in the music industry.
In this video, Sivers [...]
We lose ideas forever while jamming: portable digital recording-studios to the rescue!
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged belkin go studio, daw, digital audio workstation, field recorder, jam session, jamming, line 6 trackback + mic, lost ideas, m audio microtrack, musical ides, musicl inspiration, portable digital recorder, record music, recorded music, recording, sony pcm d1, yamaha pockettrack, zoom h4 on September 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jamming is the process by which I probably find most of my musical ideas. I’ve never been the kind of musician that visualizes his music before playing it, that hears it in his head and reproduces it. I’m more of the visceral kind that just lashes out and looks for the groove before thinking about [...]
Groove encrusted asphalt to bring musical roads at the top of the charts
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged anyang music road, grooves, Hokkaido musical road, honda musical road, Lancaster music, music street, musical road, musical streets, rossini, Shizuo Shinoda, singing roads, william tell overture on September 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You know how when you’re touring or doing a road trip or whatever, and at one point after hours of driving you start singing roads songs just to stay awake and keep your vital brain functions active. Well in some places, the roads do the singing for you.
A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo [...]
Where to find free sound effects/audio samples for your music productions
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged audio formats, findsounds, music database, online sound banks, online sound libraries, sampling plus license, sound effects, sound library, sound snap, soundsnap, soungle, the freesound project, the internet archive on September 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
For all you producers, sound designers, film makers and recording artists, here is a little post on free online sound libraries and communities that could be a good help when you’re looking for specific ambiances or and sound effects. As the audiophile communities of the web are growing, these sites have evolved in enormous databases [...]
Try pitching your music to a venture capitalist
Posted in Band Revenue, tagged band funding, Band Revenue, bands, dragon's den, entrepreneur, hamfatter, indie band, peter jones, promotional stunt, royalties, sell-out band, songs, the girl i love on September 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Dragon’s Den is a TV show where inventors pitch their idea (or business-plan) to 5 multi-millionaire entrepreneurs (the dragons) in an attempt to convince them to invest in their projects. The dragons, with their wads of cash laying next to them, listen intently to the aspiring inventors’ arguments as they rub their chins, scratch their [...]
Sonicbids affiliate program: get paid to promote their services
Posted in Industry Talk, tagged affiliate marketing programs, affiliate program, bands, commision junction, electronic press kit, epk, event promoters, free trail, gigs, interesting gigs, licensing opportunites, music industry, sonicbids on September 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I received a mail from SonicBids to let me know that they are opening up an affiliate program, and will now pay members to promote their services via banners and text – getting someone to register for a free Sonicbids trial account will reward you (the affiliate member) with $3.
Sonicbids has teamed up with Comission [...]
Unsigned artist contest: Get one of your songs featured in a movie soundtrack
Posted in Band Revenue, tagged indie radio station, lionsgate films, movie, New!, New! discover artists, soundtrack, the punisher, unsigned band contest, war zone on September 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
LionsGate films is looking for songs for the soundtrack of their latest movie, Punisher War Zone (in theaters December). In collaboration with New! Discover Artists (an indie radio station where bands can submit songs in the hope of getting them aired), the production company has launched a contest, giving unsigned bands the opportunity to have [...]
