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6 Ways to Get Publicity for Your Album

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Share As a new artist releasing an album for the first time, it is one of your goals to get as much attention as possible. You are willing to experiment and do whatever it takes in order for people to talk about your album, your gigs, your posters, and of course, let’s not forget- your [...]

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14 February 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

T-shirt Design: Helvetica ‘Jetset’ Parody Shirts

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ShareLooking for a fun t-shirt design for your band merch? Why don’t you join the Jetset-inspired Helvetica  Bandwagon? It never gets old. A design group called Experimental Jetset created three designs in 2001: These are band members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Ramones respectively. This t-shirt design represents the essence of these [...]

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9 February 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Female Musicians With Kids Talk About Their Challenges

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ShareSomeone once said, “Nobody’s cool when you have kids”. Well, these musician moms are here to prove that statement wrong. These musician moms made it possible to continue their careers in music even with the overwhelming challenges of motherhood (not to mention wifehood and breadwinner-hood). Motherhood equals zero sleep, more mouths to feed, life insurance, [...]

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8 February 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

If you’re not focusing on CD packaging, then you’re F)*&^ed!

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Share Humans are like magpies. We like pretty things. If your CD packaging stands out, there’s a change we would want to pick it up and maybe even buy it. Don’t roll your eyes now. I know 2008, 2009- in fact a lot of 2000-sucked for a lot of us. The industry has changed. Digital [...]

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18 January 2012

james James Hill

Musicians: How to Get Your Groove Back in 2012

ShareAre you experiencing a big slump in your music career and 2012 doesn’t excite you one bit? Have your big dreams and strong motivation turned into the size of a pea? Then you are just like me…a year ago. That was around this time in 2011. Hope and motivation and enthusiasm were running out of [...]

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10 January 2012

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

10 New Year’s Resolutions a Musician Should Make

Share As I sit here in the No Man’s Land between Christmas and New Year my Facebook feed is currently dominated by bands. This is the case most of the time, but at the moment almost all of them are posting up the following three messages: – Thanks for helping us to have an excellent [...]

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30 December 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Indie Musician: What Publicists Need From Musicians

ShareAnne Leighton handles publicity and music services for a range of master musicians including up-and-comers Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius, Mike Keneally, KJ Denhert, Emily Hurd, Jann Klose, plus classic artists Vonda Shepard, Jethro Tull, Tower of Power, and many others. She wrote this article which was posted as a guest post on Music Think Tank. I’m [...]

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27 December 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Best of the Best- Our top 10 Articles of 2011

ShareBranding Yourself as a Musician- A Checklist Branding and promoting your band is not like selling Avon products or vacuum cleaners. Here is a list of things a band should have if you want to brand your band and make a career out of your craft. 6 Reasons People are Buying Vinyl Records Again According to industry [...]

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23 December 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

BAND NAMES AND TRADEMARK LAW – AN OVERVIEW

Share WHAT IS A TRADEMARK? A common misunderstanding is the idea that one can “copyright” a band name. While it is possible to copyright the design of a band logo, the band name itself is not copyrightable. Band names are protectable under trademark law, because like “brand names” they allow us to distinguish one band’s [...]

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20 December 2011

Erick Yankton Erick Yankton

10 Things to Know before You Launch a Music-Based Company

ShareBill Wilson is Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), the #1 trade association for professionals in the music industry. For almost 20 years, Bill ran Blackout Records in New York City, which originated as a label for hardcore bands and was responsible for putting out [...]

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14 December 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

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