CD – DVD – Vinyl – T-shirt – Box Sets
10. Kanye Paper Matez Constructed by Paper Matez, the bear is accurately detailed to Kanye’s “Graduation” cartoon creature, complete with shuttered sunglasses and copiously branded Louis Vuitton backpack. 9. U2 Lego Set How cute can they get? 8. Bloc Party’s Promotional condoms Thumbs up for promoting responsibility. 7. Feist Mushaboom Music Box band Merch A […]
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 a good number of fans just a month after you released your CD and now […]
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 might have convinced you to make cool shirts for your band or it might have […]
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, cool!” expressions when they see your CD packaging. You realized just how important CD packaging […]
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 the readers. It makes them feel like they know something important about you, the artist, […]
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 mean business because you took the time and effort to really weave everything together into […]
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 very small cost. Anyone can do that. Anyone. The setback is that with millions of […]
It is a known fact that CD sales have plummeted in the last decade and are down about 50 percent from their peak. The decline of CD sales — and, more recently, of DVD sales — has forced the music retailers to find other ways to fill their space and tap into customers’ interest in […]
The internet may be cursed by some musicians for ‘stealing’ a big chunk of their revenue due to illegal downloads and easy access to their music but the internet also provides musicians a bigger venue to gain more followers. If you a new indie musician, you may be surprised that you can get a lot […]