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CD Manufacturing: Things to Bring and Think About Before Stepping Inside a CD Manufacturing Company

CD manufacturing company would save plenty of man-hours and you would save plenty of money and headaches caused by production delays. Additional fees may be charged by some CD manufacturing companies if you lack the correct materials. So better have ...
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CD Packaging of the Week:Amnesiac- Radiohead

Album: Amnesiac Artist: Radiohead Cover Artist: Stanley Donwood Year: 2002 This wonderfully done packaging won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 2002. That’s almost a decade ago but this packaging has managed to keep its appeal intact. It ...
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Indie Musicians: You Know You're Ready to TOUR When…

So this is it! After many years of religiously practicing in your garage, your band finally came up with a good set of songs and released an album. Luckily and to your surprise, many people actually liked it. You’ve gathered ...
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CD Packaging: Music in a Pizza Box

This 5-track short release by California Nintendo-core rockers HORSE the Band is a tribute to the band’s favorite food-PIZZA. The CD looks like a pepperoni and cheese pizza, it comes in a pizza box complete with ‘grease stains’ in the ...
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Music Retail: All About Merch

Before anything else, check out this really awesome video about t-shirts: Too awesome, isn't it? I dunno if it's related to my whole post but I just can't help but share this video. Well, at the very least, the vid ...
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Music Packaging: Dos and Don'ts of Music Packaging

So you've been wracking your brains out and squeezing every droplet of creative juice for the most awesome CD packaging ever. It's not easy but I am sure that it would all be worth it once you see people’s “wow, ...
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Indie Musicians: 5 Blogging Tips for Musicians

Blogging is one great online tool for musicians to gain more fans. It would help you build a solid fanbase if you broadcast your life, philosophies, opinions, rants, and frustrations online since it creates an intimate (albeit virtual) relationship with ...
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Indie Musicians: How to Make a Kick-Ass Press Kit

FOR THE WHOLE KIT Develop a Concept: It matters if you have developed a good concept for the whole kit so that each piece or page is recognizable as part of the kit. This gives the impression that you really ...
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CD Packaging: The "Found Photography" Fad

The fad of using ‘found photography’ Polaroid images as the main artwork for CDs is back again. It makes me wonder why. Do they genuinely see the beauty in it as it is? Are they Dada artists (anti-art) who try ...
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Indie Musicians: Solicit Grants using Kickstarter

YouTube, can create a MySpace, Facebook, Twitter account for their band promotion, can blog about their lives to gather followers.  And if they have the recording equipment and CD burners at home, they can actually make their album at a ...
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