To date smaller artists have been restricted from entry to the growing apps market due to costs. iLike is now offering a solution for acts to build their own apps starting at US$99 (£58) each. iLike is the Web’s leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook®, Orkut, hi5 and [...]
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Independent musicians and band members recognise how important promotion is. You want to get this done as cost effectively as possible so here are some useful tips. Get signed up and connected to as many social networks as is humanly possible. Not just MySpace and Facebook. You need to be on the top social media [...]
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If you’re ready to let the world know about you and your band a promo package is essential. This is just what you need to start getting those local gigs. There are some pretty basic ingredients involved in the package. It must include music, pictures, a biography about you or the band and maybe some [...]
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Three times for emphasis. I’m going to just outline here some real basics about copyright that you need to be aware of. In most cases, for instance, if you are a songwriter and record your songs then as soon as you record a work and it comes into existence in some tangible form you have a [...]
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Many music composers are interested in writing music for the movies. There seems no end to the ‘blockbuster’ and new films seem to appear constantly but what are the processes involved and how does that music end up on the movie? Most regular feature type movies are supposedly complete before the music gets added however [...]
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