Tips and reviews for musicians from Stan Stewart (aka muz4now)
I’m unbelievably happy to have a guest post from one of my favorite blog writers: Kevin Jacoby. For more about KJ, read and click the links in his bio block at the end of this post. Picture yourself on a stage. The sun sets behind the hills as the sodium lights prepare to chase away …
OK: you got some local gigs and you are really loving playing out. Now what? Time to rest and enjoy the moments of success? Um, no. Once you have a local gig or two, it’s time to decide where you’re headed next. Do you want to get more local gigs? Do you want to tour? …
In the late 1980’s, I left my former profession and moved to California to “do music and nothing else”. Just saying that was not enough. I quickly found out that I had to pay the bills. And those California bills were considerably more costly than the ones I had left behind in Texas. At many …
I really don’t need to add to the fray regarding the possible demise of musicians making money by making their music. It’s been covered in so many ways: give your music away, piracy killed independent music, no it didn’t, and The Trichordist’s excellent essay on changes in the structure of payments to musicians for their …
If you haven’t already found it, please click over to Sessionville’s web site and read my post with networking tips for getting local gigs. Independent bands and solo artists should find these tips to be of interest. While you’re there, be sure to check out what else Sessionvile has to offer. The crew there is …
four networking tips for getting local gigs – at @Sessionville Read More »
I’m pleased and honored to have Jami McGraw offering you this guest post. Please be sure to check out Jami’s bio at the end of the post. This is a list of tricks and tips that will allow you to get a great sounding song/album, from your bedroom, basement, living room, bathroom, garage… well, you …
tips on recording … without a studio (guest post) Read More »
Be sure to read my updated and more complete review of BandCamp! (Click anywhere on these 2 sentences to see that post.) This is the penultimate review in a series based on my own research, plus awesome input from a number of other independent musicians. My basic goal in this series is to find the best-of-breed …
This is the seventh song sales tool that I’ve reviewed after getting lots of wonderful input from many musicians across Twitter, the blogosphere and the web. My main interest right now is direct sales of digital downloads of songs, so that’s my focus in this series: TuneCore/SmashSongs/RootMusic, CreateSpace, ReverbNation and Genuine Caring. Like ReverbNation, CDBaby …
Be sure to check out my updated and more complete review of ReverbNation. Let me put that another way: Don’t read this page. I do highly recommend reading the comments below this post, though. They are great indicators of why I wrote a “better” review of RN. The review here is old and has not been …
As promised, I’m continuing my series of reviews of online musician song sales tools. The previous review went over RootMusic, SmashSongs and TuneCore and why, in the end, they don’t match my criteria. Today, I continue with the review of services that don’t meet the baseline that I eventually came up with for my focus: sites …
