Musicians’ comebacks when asked to play for free

Whether you’re a seasoned musician or a new one trying to jumpstart a career, I’m pretty sure you are very familiar of “offers” from bar owners, filmmakers, friends…err, just about anybody  to let you play music for free venue, free drinks, exposure and everything else except monetary compensation. They believe that’s the way things should […]

15 Albums That Creatively Use Clear CD Cases

So…maybe everyone’s releasing their albums in cool Flash Drives or Dropcards. If they release in CD format at all, they’d most likely be housed in sleek Digipaks and Custom Boxes. There’s no way jewel cases can be cool in 2013, right? Wrong! Want proof? Well just check out these totally hip CD packaging using clear […]

7 Traits Every Musician Should Develop

Making music is all about music but making a CAREER in music requires more than talent, it requires certain traits that really push you to excel. Here are the traits every musician should develop in order to achieve success: WILLINGNESS TO DO GRUNT WORK Here’s the news: Grunt work is what building your music career […]

Five Things Millennial Musicians Don’t Get

Millennials (also known as Gen Y-ers) are those born in 1980 up to the 2000s. We’re known to be narcissistic, impatient, entitled, tech-dependent, lazy job-switchers who think we deserve the big things without putting much effort. In two words: spoiled brats! Of course we just roll our eyes because we know better- we are ambitious […]

Why it still makes sense to make CDs

The CD is dead. We keep hearing it every day since 2001 but here we are, 12 years later, still alive and making hundreds of thousands of CDs each year. Many things changed because of the internet but one thing never changes: fans still want to take home the physical format. The mp3 is too […]