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Dirt Cheap Design Services for Musicians: Swiftly + Eventbrite, Fiverr and More
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Need a quick but great looking web banner for your next concert or release? Need a band logo fast, but don't have much cash? There are a growing number of online services that connect designers with potential clients, and many are perfect for musicians and indie music companies on tight budgets. $5 - $19 Goes A Long Way Eventbrite Pacts With Swiftly: $19 + 1 Hour = A Great Web Banner Using Swiftly, bands using Eventbrite to organize a show ...
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Create a Band Bio Promoters and Press Will Appreciate
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By Kathleen Parrish from the Sonicbids Blog. As a musician, having a bio is incredibly important. It's your opportunity to make a great first impression, no matter what stage of your career you're in. Giving interviews, gaining fans, playing shows – these all require someone to take interest in you or your band. Coming across a band who don’t have a bio makes it difficult to gauge who the group is, and often times press and promoters will skip over ...
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IdeasTap Launches Accelerator: Commission-Free Crowdfunding for Creative People
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IdeasTap is an “arts charity" or nonprofit based in London that supports young creatives with funding, networking tools and information. To further their mission they launched a commission-free crowdfunding platform with “Cash TopUp Funds" for outstanding projects. However Accelerator is for UK residents only and that's unlikely to change given the UK focus of IdeasTap. According to the Accelerator launch announcement, Peter De Haan founded IdeasTap in 2008: “in response to the first of the arts funding cuts, to empower ...
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How to Get Press for Your Band Like the PR Pros Do
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By Rachel Bailey from the Sonicbids Blog. When promoting a record, there are a couple of different philosophies about the most effective way to get your music heard. One, the carpet-bomb method, involves sending a press release, download, or digital stream to every contact in your press list arsenal. The other – and in my experience, more effective way – is to curate a list of writers whose work and tastes you know, who you think will really dig your ...
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9 Tips for Successful DIY Tour Booking
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By Lee Buck for the Sonicbids Blog. It’s no secret that in today’s industry, musicians are much more than musicians. Often we have to be our own booking agents, publicists, marketing teams, merch coordinators, and a myriad of other tasks that are often overlooked: chef, accountant, driver, babysitter, and much more. So, when an artist decides to go tour, juggling all of these roles can be incredibly daunting. During the early stages of touring with my band Sky Eats Airplane, I ...
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5 Lessons for the Music Industry from "Weird al" Yankovic
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By Kevin Erickson from Future of Music Coalition. Last week, beloved musical humorist “Weird Al” Yankovic dropped his new album Mandatory Fun. Propelled by a set of eight viral videos, it quickly rose to the top spot on the Billboard charts, his first ever #1, with over 104,000 album sales. Al recently told the New York Times, “I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh, I’m on the bleeding edge of marketing, this is going to be a business model that will change the ...
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Open Call to all Jazz Artists! Kimmel Center Now Accepting 2014-15 Jazz Residency Program Applications
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Michael Ricci
Open Call to all Jazz Artists in Philadelphia! Kimmel Center Now Accepting Online Applications for 2014-15 Kimmel Center Jazz Residency Program Open Call to all Jazz Artists in Philadelphia! Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is now accepting online submissions from talented jazz musicians interested in participating in the 2014-15 Kimmel Center Jazz Residency – an opportunity for local jazz artists to create new work in collaboration with other artists, as they continue to express the relevance of jazz beyond ...
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Sparkplug Helps Musicians Rent Gear and Space from Each Other [updated]
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Sparkplug is a new site and service that facilitates musicians renting gear and space from each other. But they go beyond just a Craiglist-like listing to add a system with such features as clear procedures, deposits and id verification. It's potentially a great service but, in what I think is a simple oversight, you can't figure out who the people running the site might be which kind of contradicts their trust-building features. [Update: I've been informed by co-founder and CEO ...
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