Category archives: Mental Health

5 Tips for Maintaining Your Mental Health in the Music Industry

Managing and maintaining good mental health is an extremely important aspect of self-care either in your personal or professional life. The music industry is arguably one of the creative spaces which is most affected by mental health issues which means keeping an eye on how you or your friends and collaborators are feeling is key to wellbeing […]

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Touring Industry To Tackle Mental Health with Non-Profit ‘Tour Support’ Intiative

Tour Support, a new nonprofit program to provide mental health support to artists, crews and vendors in the music touring industry. Live Nation, Friends at Work and WME are launch partners as are artists including John Legend, Steve Aoki, MARINA, Grace VanderWaal and Rick Springfield. Tour Support is a new…

3 Questions To Ask Yourself When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed As An Artist

As an independent artist struggling to make a place for yourself in the music industry, it’s easy to start to feel overwhelmed and burnt out. Here we look at three important questions to pose to yourself when the burdens of navigating a truly challenging business have become too great. ______________________________…

Should I Quit Music? How To Prevent Burnout

Given the trials and countless setbacks you will inevitably face as you struggle to cultivate a successful music industry career, chances are good you will at some point – maybe after one too many money-loosing tours, or rejected pitches – question whether it’s time to just throw in the towel….

10 Important Career Lessons From Bipolar, Schizophrenic Music Journalist

In this wake of mental health awareness month, this powerful piece by music journalist Kiana Fitzgerald details her experience in the US music community, and offers us ten valuable lessons she’s learned during that time. _______________________________ Guest post by Kiana Fitzgerald of AWAL In honor of mental health awareness month,…

11 Artists On Safeguarding Their Headspace While On Tour

Self-care can be challenging for anyone, let alone an artist on tour, with musicians on the road often facing compromised health, both mental and physical. Here we hear from eleven major touring artists on how they safe guard their headspace while on tour. _______________________________ Guest post from AWAL It’s too…

The Number One Cause Of Burnout For People In Music

As with many high-stress creative industries, burnout plagues the music business, and has brought down many an aspiring young artist – but it doesn’t have to be that way! Here we look at how to avoid fizzling out and giving up. _______________________________ Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Burnout…