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Jonathan Coulton is a musician you may well be aware of plus you may remember the hit song “Code Monkey”?  He write’s, records and distributes his music all from the one room – his home studio.  He has a workable solution to marketing his music online successfully so check out this video. KJR COMMENTS: Jonathan [...]

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Finding effective strategies for marketing your band is a priority. Most would agree with this, but only when you get time to think about it.  The problem for many bands is actually finding the time to think, then think marketing then think ‘strategies’.  It amazes me how many times I still come across bands who are [...]

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The next gen music biz music keeps rolling out new opportunities for musicians to creatively pursue new revenue streams. Internet sensation Coffey Andersen is a hybrid artist. He uses his soul voice, his country guitar picking and urban influenced drums to make a unique sound.  This week he launched his “Direct-to-Fan Live Sessions” series. Coffey [...]

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The debate around P2P is clouded by misconception and propaganda.  There can be only be one winner in this situation – quess who?  If you don’t yet know the answer to this question you NEED to read on . . . . .  Artists rightfully expect to be paid for their work, no question.  So [...]

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Success in the music industry is now based on direct engagement with fans, not pushing acts  through radio and traditional media.  With this in mind  Next Big Sound is a new site that tracks a whole lot more than just a few page views. These guys clearly understand the need artists to understand fans online [...]

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The Beatles have been all over the TV in the UK this past week. The Beatles on Record film shown on BBC Four charts the ’fab fours’ extraordinary journey from Please Please Me to Abbey Road and reflected on how they developed as musicians and matured as songwriters. It was interesting to see footage of them from the early sixties [...]

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Most indie artists are interested in getting their music sold as digital downloads.  How is this possible? The larger Digital Distributors, such as The Orchard, require artists to be represented by a music label before they will agree to distribution of your music to the digital stores.  These distributors in turn will work with smaller [...]

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Finding effective strategies for marketing your band is a priority. When it comes to using your limited time wisely you need to focus your efforts to where you can get the best return on time invested. Here in Part 3 of Strategies for Marketing Your Band I’ll share with you another highlight from Tom Williams [...]

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Finding effective strategies for marketing your band is a priority. Most band members would agree with this, but only when you get time to think about it.  The problem for many bands is actually finding the time to think, then think marketing then think ‘strategies’. Here in Part 2 of Strategies for Marketing Your Band, [...]

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