This week marked the launch of a new interesting start-up, TheIndie.biz – a social buying and selling service, allowing independent music fans to tag and feature their favorite songs and sell them through Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, and MySpace accounts.
Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding can be a huge part of a rising musician’s business model. Whether you’re trying to raise money for a single, an album, or literally anything else, crowdfunding can make that happen if you do it right.
There have been a lot of buzz lately about the Big Four tour, featuring the forefathers of thrash metal – Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax (and you can guess why).
While your average street musician can upload a few tracks onto MySpace and get a few more people coming down to watch them bang the drum, the bigger guys still have the contacts to fill a venue on that alone.
Guitarist Paul Phillips, who recently rejoined Puddle of Mudd, talked on behalf of the band about their latest album, Songs in the Key of Love & Hate, and topics like collaboration, tipsy songwriting and relationships with the label.
The following is a list of reasons why record execs may be giving you the cold shoulder, and things you can do to help solve this: in short, this is how to make your band look very attractive to a record company.
