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What Not To Do When Pitching Your Music To Press Outlets
Getting press from taste-making gatekeepers is an essential part of releasing music for any artist, and those who don't have a boatload of cash must instead rely on crafting the perfect pitch. Here we look at what not to do when pitching your music. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of the ReverbNation Blog Pitching a new ...
Bandsintown Adds Int'l Partners, 35% Users Now Outside Of North America
Concert discovery and marketing app Bandsintown has announced key partnerships in Japan and France to further expand its international reach. 35% of Bandsintown's 130 million monthly active users are currently from outside of North America. Globally, Bandsintown serves 42 million registered users and 450,000 touring artists. A new partnership with Japanese ticketing company Lawson Ticket will help international ...
Songkick Adds Free Concert Analytics, Users Pass 150M
Concert discovery app Songkick has announced the addition of free artist specific fan and gig analytics, alongside some impressive new user, concert listing and SEO stats of their own. Songkick distributes concert information to Google, Spotify, Facebook, Pandora, Shazam and other music and web services. A particualrly interesting stat: On average, 85% of an artist's fanbase on ...
How To Build A Perfect Musicians One Sheet
The one-sheet, a simple single page overview of you and your music, is a tool used by the many music industry gatekeepers (think radio stations and booking agents) to determine how sellable you are as a band or artist. Here we look at a checklist designed to help you write the most effective one-sheet possible. Guest ...
Could Article 13 Mean The End Of Music On YouTube?
Even as YouTube launched it's much anticipated music service, its core user-generated video business was being threatened. The EU Parliament is seriously considering overturning basic provisions of the safe harbor framework under which YouTube operates; and the idea is gaining traction in the US. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog It was week ...
Has The Time For Classic Rock's Eulogy Arrived?
In this piece Fred Jacobs takes a long hard look at the legacy of classic rock, and whether the genre will be able to endure and gain more popularity as we move forward into the future and more legacy artists age out, or whether its time as a genre has finally come. Guest post by Fred ...
Herbie Mann with Oliver Nelson
Herbie Mann was a fascinating jazz figure. The flutist and saxophonist was a dominant player in the 1950s, recording prolifically as a leader and sideman, and always bringing tremendous swing and lyricism to his work. Both of Mann's parents were dancers, so his keen sense of time makes perfect sense. Tall and lean, he became the ...
Charity Gigs: Should I Do Them?
As a performing musician, you will at some point undoubtably be asked to perform for free at a charity or non-profit, and while these gigs can be an excellent opportunity to do good, there are still times when they should be passed up on. Guest post by Brian Jenkins of Gig Salad Almost every artist or ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Grant Green Story
This week, we take a brief respite from previewing upcoming performances for a look at the recent documentary film The Grant Green Story. Born in St. Louis in 1931, Green was a popular jazz guitarist in the 1960s and '70s, recording for Blue Note and other labels and playing most of the major venues of the ...
Fans Don’t Access Live Music Experiences, They Own Them
Touring has now shifted to become the primary source of income for many artists, with preferring to amass live experiences over recordings. These new consumption habits raise the question of whether these types of experiences could be documented and commodified to the benefit of both fan and artist. Guest post by Jeffrey Warshauer, the founder of ...
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