Alternative Income for Indie Artists. Every artist wants to make money from his work. But is it as easy and certain as a job? Certainly not. With fierce competition, ever-growing number of music available online and online sales at an all-time low, it is becoming increasingly difficult for indie artists to depend only on money […]
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Perfect Email Pitch for Indie. When you send out emails to so many venues and nobody get back, it is really frustrating. It makes you wonder if you did even send those e-mails! It happens with all of us. So when you begin booking for the next tour, take a new route and get a
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The Indie Guide to Radio. The music industry has evolved at the speed of light in the past few decades. I have written about this in my blog Survival of the Indie Artist. The sooner you realize that you are on your own in this world of pay-to-play radio, the better it is going to
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Survival of the Indie Artist. Over the last few decades, I have seen a lot because of my involvement in the indie music business. There were days, I remember, of one genre of rock in which Jimi Hendrix played on the same radio station as James Taylor. If the music was good, they played it,
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Opener Indie. For all indie artist and bands an important leap in their career is to get a big kickstarting opportunity. Your talent is immediately noticed if a video goes viral or you get a chance to work with someone who has already done something big in his career. You can climb the ladder of
Financing Indie Artists. Indie artists and indie bands might have difficulty finding financiers in the initial years of their career. So, if you are a beginner and want to plan a music tour, you have to finance it yourself. When you are the financer, you obviously want to make it successful. You need to plan
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Indie Songs and Albums. When an indie artist or indie band has completed one song and id ready to move to the next, the important decision to make is weather to release a single song or wait to complete an album. Usually they follow the trend and start working on completing an album before release.
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Making Indie Music Economical. Invest in yourself. You can afford it, trust me! Making music is an art and all art is priceless. There can never be a specific value associated to it. This remains unchanged for all forms of art. When an indie artist or bands has just started playing, they have no idea
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Growing Changes in Indie Music. We are all here to make a career in the music industry and earn our living from music. However, growing competition in the indie music industry has made it difficult for indie artists and bands to earn an easy living. As I have written in my blog How to Become
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Publishing for Indie Artists. Every artist would like to earn from his art, but it not easy to achieve that goal in today’s world because market if is full of pirated copies of CDs which are easily available in the market at a very low price. Earning from selling original records is becoming more difficult
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