Getting people to a live show – particularly when it is outside of your home town – isn’t easy. But indie rapper extraordinaire Kosha Dillz has some strategies that he’s using to build a national fan base. ____________________________ By Kosha Dillz I want to write this article because well…I have…
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5 Tools For Becoming Your Own Music Publicist
In the modern music industry, there is a certain degree of expectation when it comes to achieving success, an expectation that you will do it yourself, before labels come seeking you out. Here we look at five different tools for furthering that goal. ____________________________ Guest post by Tyler Allen of…
T Bone Burnett Slams Google and Other Tech Cos., Demands Major Copyright Reform
"(Google and other tech companies) are enriching themselves off the artistic, cultural and economic value everyone else creates," states a concerned and upset T. Bone Burnett in a scathing 5 minute video sent to the U.S. Copyright Office. ___________________________________ Digital safe harbors are a failure and the Digital Millennium Copyright…
Compare User Growth On Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat [CHART]
Where should you be spending your precious time building an audience on social media? The obvious answer is wherever the fans are. But another major factor is which social media will deliver the biggest audience – not just now, but a year from now? _________________________________ Statista via Business Insider Related…
Bandcamp Grew Fan Signups 4X By Making A Very Simple Change
By any yardstick, Bandcamp is on a roll. Not only is it growing rapidly, as measured by both new artist and label signups and transactions, but the indie music site also experienced an exponential jump in fan growth after it made a single, simple change. ____________________________ The number of fans…
Everything I Know About Digital Entrepreneurship, I Learned from YouTube
Here Peter Hollens outlines how YouTube can work as the perfect combination business school and incubator for the eager digital entrepreneur, as it allows artists to learn how to foster a community of fans while simultaneously allowing them the develop vital business skills. _____________________________ Guest post by YouTube artist and…
YouTube Unleashes Power Of Live Streaming
In addition to its new ‘Super Chat’ feature, YouTube is also seeing a rise in the success live streaming video, although this has been a part of YouTube since 2011 the popularity of such content on Facebook, and the ability to monetize it means YouTube stands to gain greatly from…
How To Get Booked At Music Festivals
Landing your band a gig at a music festival can be one of the most effective ways of getting industry attention, both from fans and tastemakers. It also speaks volumes about a band’s talent and commitment to finding success in the business. _________________________ In this recent post to MusicThinkTank, Lisa…
CD Baby Back Online After Multi-Day Outage
CDBaby.com is back online after an outage that lasted much of the last 5 days. The indie music and musician’s services company blamed a corrupt database caused during routine maintenance. _________________________________ CDBaby.com, which was unavailable to users for most of the last 5 days, is back online. Service was restored…
CD Baby Site Still Down After 21+ Hours
[UPDATED] Sunday afternoon CDBaby.com went down during what the company says was scheduled maintenance. Almost 24 hours later, the site, an essential sales and distribution hub for tens of thousands of independent artists, was still not online. _______________________________________ Mid-day on Sunday, CDBaby.com became unaccessible because of a "database issue" which…