Indie Artist Success: Stagger Your Release Dates
This will undoubtedly make the rounds in the music community. It is well known by now that Spotify does not pay musicians a damn thing. Although they are a multi-million dollar, professional, ad driven...
View ArticleIndie Artist Success: Make Your Music The By Product…, Not The BUY Product
This is going to take some work in the department of ego management. Very few acts these days come out and CATCH FIRE. When they do it’s usually because someone with a lot of influence has endorsed...
View ArticleIndie Artist Success: Zero In On Your Customer Base
Who REALLY wants to buy what you are selling? Who is your true audience? This needs to be identified. Then BUSINESS practices are geared toward them.. If you are a musician fortunate enough to have an...
View Article3 Reasons BandCamp Might Save The Music Industry
I am no fanboy for any site, but I am going to answer the number one question I see everyone asking. “HOW do you make any money as a musician these days?” One great answer to this is BandCamp. It’s...
View ArticleGOD Probably Hates Your Music
Musicians have to stop hiding behind that “Doing this for fun” excuse, and admit it’s a passion. You are DRIVEN to make music, so you might as well get some of the earnings that come from it! TYPICAL –...
View ArticleIndie Artist Success: Fix Your Attitude And STOP Giving All Your Sh** Away
I understand the frustration… you put all this work into something and it seems like no one is listening. On social media getting very little interaction for a project that took you months to create...
View ArticleIndie Artist Success: No More Faking It… Independence Day Is Today
Celebrate Your Independence pt. 1 //The Difference Between You And Your Heroes May Not Be As Vast As You Think Are you an independent artist? I mean REALLY an independent artist… If you are someone who...
View ArticleMC ZULU | Album In Progress Experiment | Love Machine
Although no one wants to admit it……… A lot of musicians are having a great degree of difficulty collecting revenue from recorded music, because of the changing marketplace (streaming). This has caused...
View ArticleMC ZULU | Album In Progress Experiment (Terms)
I have to admit this is very much an experiment… I am posting the terms here so people can see how it went. Those of you with bigger fan bases than myself can run with this tho! I have already started...
View ArticleIndie Artist Success: The ‘Fake Indie’ Hit Parade
Celebrate Your Independence pt. 2 // I’m writing this so some of you can stop hating yourselves. Keep going instead for YOUR true fan base… one person at a time if you have to. As an independent artist...
View ArticleThe ABCs Of Making Money In Music
A lot of you don’t know my straight J.O.B. I am a peds nurse. I take care of babies on ventilators, mostly in the home setting. and I am NOT your average BS musician pretending I don’t need to do it...
View ArticlePROMOTERS: How To Forget About “Draw” And Book Whoever You Want
Every time a promoter asks a musician about their “draw”, you immediately know two things about them. 1) They are gambling their trust fund money. 2) They are hoping to gain “street cred” by booking a...
View ArticleIndie Artist Success: They’ll Never Take You Alive
One of the most recognizable branding fixtures in the United States is that of a Jamaican man, born into abject poverty. He was essentially ignored most of his life and ridiculed in the press. Although...
View ArticleGiving Credit Where It’s Due: Outlaw Speakerbox Radio Campaign
I want to thank everyone who helped me promote this album. It seems like we do so much better every time out! The main contact for radio is someone who I want to share with you though. It is Jessica...
View ArticleRight Now There Is No Music Industry, It’s All About The “Fame Game”.
I don’t want to hear anyone else complaining about “the music industry”……. There is NO SUCH THING right now! Kids with Masters degrees in classical music are playing bus stations; while the hottest...
View ArticleMarley Brand Crossover Success: 5 Lessons In Music Marketing
While Bob Marley was creating he was always pushing the sonic envelope. Being linked with Chris Blackwell’s Island label afforded him use of the best studios from which to create his music. The result...
View ArticleIsolation Breeds Ignorance / Why Your Social Media Is Being Filtered
Have you ever gone to a remote part of the world and observed the inhabitants’ customs? One thing you will notice is that they place great importance upon things which you might consider quite...
View ArticleCan EDM Outlive ‘The Business Of EDM’?
Electronic Dance Music is now the pulse of humanity. It’s a bold statement, but I can back it up. While we don’t all speak the same language, we can most likely feel the music. Children and adults...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Making Money As An Artist
I have always stressed the importance of artists gaining a financial foothold. This doesn’t necessarily mean getting “rich”, but at least we should learn how to exploit our potential and find a market...
View ArticleTellin’ Tales Outta School (Free, Cheap & Full Price)
For some the mid-life crisis takes the form of a sports car… Been there, done that. Mine has driven me back into the hallowed halls of academia. Without going into specifics I believe I could be doing...
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