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Traveling With Instruments? The US Department Of Transportation Just Simplified Air Travel For Musicians
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U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a final rule implementing section 403 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, requiring U.S. airlines to accept musical instruments as carry-on or checked baggage on commercial passenger flights, provided that certain conditions are met. The rule states musicians must store smaller instruments in an approved location either overhead or under the seat, but that even oddly shaped instruments such as a violin or guitar will be recognized as approved carry-ons and ...
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Why Engagement Might Be The Most Important Metric For Artists
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By Liv Buli of Next Big Sound. This article originally appeared on Forbes.com. Whenever the topic of social media is raised in any forum of the music industry, a choice discussion is always the practice of purchasing followers or views, allowing artists to game charts, rendering social activity unreliable and therefore less significant. But often overlooked in this dismissal of the validity of social activity is the fact that building a significant social following is fairly pointless for an artist unless they successfully leverage ...
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Small Things That Make a Difference in Musicians' Online Engagement
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By Jake Anderson Social media and the Internet have opened up many opportunities for musicians of all backgrounds, allowing them to reach audience members they might never have met. If you have a website and a social media presence, you know how much work goes into keeping it on the cutting edge. Once the big things like finding a platform and building the site are in place, the work may seem to be easier. But it is important to remember all ...
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Everything Indie Musicians Need to Know About YouTube Music Key
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By Keidra Chaney on Sonicbids Blog Recently, YouTube introduced Music Key, a music streaming service that the video hosting company had been hinting at for at least a couple of years. The company has experimented with revenue models and music industry partnerships to leverage its huge library of music videos since its 2005 acquisition by Google – including a partnership with Universal Music Group's video platform Vevo back in 2009. There's a bit of confusion (from both musicians and fans) about what YouTube Music Key actually is and how it's different from Google ...
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The One Thing That Pretty Much Every Failed Artist Has In Common
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By Shaine Freeman on Sonicbids Blog A career in the music business can be one of the toughest, most frustrating paths to take, especially if you're a musician whose dream is to top the charts and sell out stadiums. It's an industry where the overwhelming majority of musicians experience failure more often than success. For the sake of defining what success is, in this case I'm talking about earning a living creating music, as opposed to the fantasy lifestyle that most people think of when they imagine what ...
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2 Genius Ideas For Funding Your Next Tour
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By Brian Buchanan on Sonicbids Blog Today, more artists than ever before are making a living by touring. Many small- and mid-sized venues are thriving, and creative acts are finding new and intriguing ways to expand their reach beyond their local scene. Thanks to dozens of new technological tools, bands are finding it increasingly easy to find an audience – but coaxing the necessary dollars out of the wallets of your adoring public is still a challenge, and filling up the tank of your beaten-up tour van isn't ...
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Bitcoin for Rockstars: How Cryptocurrency Can Revolutionize The Music Industry
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By D.A. Wallach, Recording Artist, Investor, Artist in Residence @ Spotify. This article originally appeared on DAWallach.com There is an incredibly boring problem in the music industry for which Bitcoin offers a potentially fascinating solution. In fact, I think this might be one of the coolest and most immediately worthwhile applications of distributed ledger and payment network technologies such as Bitcoin. The problem is simply that no central database exists to keep track of information about music. Specifically, there are ...
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4 Way Musicians Can Accept Credit Card Payments at Shows
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By Chris Robley on CD Baby Blog You’ve played a great show. Fans are lined up at your merch booth. You’re taking cash, making change, and signing CDs. Then a guy walks up and wants to buy a couple discs and a t-shirt — but he only has a credit card. Are you going to turn him away? No, you’re going to process his credit card transaction right then and there, in the sweet, dank, dark-lit, beer-soaked corner of a basement rock club. ...
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