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CD Baby Adds Free Customized Music Players
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CD Baby has added free customizable online music players. Users build playlists from any tracks in their CD Baby account and embed them on their sites, as well as those of bloggers and fans. A “buy" button takes fans to CD Baby to complete the transaction. Key Features & An Intro Video Create Custom playlists Mix and match any album or song combination in your CD Baby account. Make a greatest hits. Program a playlist according to mood. Easily ...
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What's "Failed" Musician Mark Montgomery Got to Teach You? A Heck of a Lot About Business!
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HypeBot
Mark Montgomery went to Nashville with $800 and dreams of a music career. That didn't pan out but he didn't stop playing music, he just started making money, lots of money, in other areas. In an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, Montgomery shares his story and the business secrets he learned along the way. The short version is a neatly packaged story of success. But the long version shared in the interview gives one not only a sense of ...
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Make More Money Gigging with These Creative Approaches
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By Dave Kusek from the Sonicbids Blog. Gigging and touring is the bread and butter for indie musicians today. Playing local gigs on the weekend with a few regional or national tours can provide enough income to get by, but there’s a lot more to gigging than performing and ticket sales. The fan interactions, collaboration opportunities, and merch possibilities open up a number of income streams for musicians. Let’s take a look at three creative ways you can use the ...
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Want Press? Make It Easy for Journalists and Bloggers to Write About You
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Musicians' websites, despite the relative ease in coming up with a list of what they should have and what they should do, are a weird hybrid when you step back and look at who's being served. Musicians and the folks working with them on websites really need to create something that serves the musician, the fans, the press, booking agents, sponsors and maybe even your enemies. For this post I want to look only at the needs of the press ...
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Trumpeter Sean Jones Named Chair Of Berklee's Brass Department
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music has named noted trumpeter Sean Jones chair of the college’s Brass Department. Jones will build on the legacy of the department and ensure that graduates have the skills to thrive in a music industry that is ever-changing. He succeeds trombonist Tom Plsek, who served as chair for 25 years. Jones is an internationally acclaimed composer and trumpeter who just released his seventh album as a leader, im•pro•vise = never before seen, on Mack Avenue Records. “Sean ...
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How to Really Get Your Music on College Radio
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By Michael Corcoran, the CEO of MusicSUBMIT.com. We’ve written a handful of articles on college radio and how hard it is for an indie artist to get considered for airplay.. And so when we read Patrick Hertz’s piece “How to Get Your Music Played on College Radio”, we felt there’s still some room to expound on the topic. »Yes, absolutely, college radio airplay still does matter, maybe even more than ever. »Yes, it’s a challenge maintaining an updated database of ...
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Bandzoogle Adds Seamless Bandcamp Integration
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Musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle has added a new feature that lets musicians integrate Bandcamp tracks and albums into their website. Bandcamp users can now easily add players to their Bandzoogle powered site, and those players are styled automatically with their theme and on mobile. The music is streamed from Bandcamp and when fans want to buy or download, the transaction happens within Bandcamp. Here's a short demo video: You can see it in action on the following websites: ...
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