Band Merch: The Politics of Price Matching
Alternative Press has a great post about the real deal of merch price matching. Price matching is a practice in which the headlining band on a tour set the merch prices. If that band sell their custom printed t-shirts for $40, every other band on the bill must comply with that price. It insures that […]
5 Ways Bands Can Benefit From Foursquare
Foursquare is the latest social networking craze that will soon be as big as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook (FB is launching its own version soon). Foursquare isn’t another social network per se. It’s a location-based social network using the GPS system off your mobile devices. Once you download the application to your phone, you “check-in” […]
Indie Musicians: Use Download Cards to Promote Your Band
Due to the popularity of digital downloads, download cards have become one of the most popular ways to sell music. In fact, it is a must for musicians nowadays. If you are a band and you just decided to have download cards, then here are some tips that can boost your download cards sales. […]
Unique Band Merch: Condoms, Lollies, Cereals, and Soup
You moan and groan that you’re not getting enough money from your gigs and album sales and that the music industry is nearing extinction. Well, welcome to the year 2010-you have to accept the fact that most fans want FREE music and are not willing to spend much on music itself. So what’s a musician […]
Band Merch: The Neatest Casket Merch Ever
To commemorate its 15th anniversary, Lamb of God has given its fans a vast array of options billed as the Hourglass collections. And for its most ravenous fans, the band conceived quite possibly the most metal thing ever — a personalized casket. Unlike KISS’s casket wherein it can be doubled as a beverage cooler, Lamb […]
Music Merch: Top 10 Unique Band Merch
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 […]
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 might have convinced you to make cool shirts for your band or it might have […]
Merch Basics Every Musician Should Know
Because of the decrease of CD sales caused by the easy access of ‘free’ music, musicians try to find more ways to earn money to support their music and to pay for their apartments. Merch is probably the biggest earner right now for most musicians. It is what usually fuels musicians with their tours, their […]
8 No-BS tips to improve your music career dramatically
All musicians have this one question: how to improve your music career? How, really when the music industry is one of the most congested industries there is today. There’s greater competition among music acts that being talented doesn’t guarantee you the big success that you are hoping for. There have been a lot of undiscovered […]
9 Music branding tips
A musician’s image has become one of the most important elements of any musician’s career. It doesn’t really need to be kept clean, though that is preferable for most. What it definitely needs is to be unique. In the industry today, the image of an artist heavily affects the consumerization of their music. And that’s […]