PillowsCIYH.com | ConcertsInYourHome launches its own "couch surfing" site

A bed, a hot meal, and good company - these can make all the difference after a long day on the road. ConcertsInYourHome.com (CIYH) has launched PillowsCIYH.com to build on the free lodging tradition of house concerts. An interesting twist, though, is that this site allows house concert hosts AND artists to be both travelers and Pillows hosts. In other words, hosts can reach out to other hosts for accommodations when they travel. They share a hobby, so it’s an easy way to make new friends and swap stories, as well as save money on travel. 

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Last call to artists: Florida Listening Room Festival (deadline 8/15)

Call to Artists - Third Annual Florida Listening Room Festival accepting applications until August 15th.

The Listening Room Festival, in association with ConcertsInYourHome.com, is putting on its annual one-of-a-kind week-long festival in April of 2014. Selected artists get paying gigs - house concerts, office concerts, and more. Prizes include lodging, cash, extras, and a great showcase opportunity in front of the Florida house concert host community as well.

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Free music search & download with MP3jam

One program to download over 20 million songs – this is what MP3jam’s like. It is a unique app for Windows to search, listen and download music in MP3 format. All downloads are legal and absolutely free – a ‘must-have’ for music fans.

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Crowdfunding folk

North Wales folksy-blues singer songwriter Stacey Cohen has tapped crowdfunding launchpad and community PleaseFund.Us to offer an exclusive win-win experience of having an advance release of her new album called the Archer. With a goal of raising £3500, Stacey isn’t just accepting donations to access a professional recording studio – she is giving back to the fans as well.

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Streaming Music For Free

http://webtunes.eu is online and is free. With more options and services than any other streaming music site on the net. They even have a freesite that you can run yourself. Details are at http://webtunes.u42.eu.

Some of the features are;

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Recording with Real Instruments in Reason 7

Producertech are happy to announce a brand new course on Reason 7, to add to their growing library of online tutorials. The course is the first one on Reason since the release of their main online schools at ReasonCourses.com and is taught by Jared Meeker, an accomplished composer and performer from LA. The series of tutorials provides a guide to Jared’s compositional process, from the initial song conception right through to the final mixdown, including many aspects of music theory and production along the way.

Having been in the studio with LA hiphop artists like Nate Dog and the Eastsidas, Snoop Dogg and Myka Nine, and with a string of sound design credits, including Dexter and Smash, Jared has a wealth of musical experience that he pours into this comprehensive set of tutorials. As well showing how to record and process live parts, like the guitar lines that form the basic structure and embellish the song, there is a big focus on the musical aspects of composing, breaking it down into the 5 major elements - melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre and form.

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Soundcloud, Fan Growth, & Music Discovery!

Soundcloud, fan growth, and music discovery? Let me count the ways! There are no shortage of sites competing to host your music from Reverbnation and Purevolume to Soundcloud and Myspace. What separates the good ones from the great ones is the facilitation of growth. Some sites you get 100 plays and it can spiral into thousands, other sites 100 plays is just 100 plays.

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ICONventional Music Service

ICONventional aims to give rising artists a chance to be noticed while making it easier for listeners to discover new music. Our online service relies on user participation, both through submissions of great music and support for the artists.

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A Few Tips To DOUBLE or TRIPLE Your Income At A Gig

Most musicians and/or bands don’t realize the financial opportunities available to them at a gig.They incorrectly assume that the fee they receive is their only income. The problem is… that fee can be incredibly low or nonexistent at some venues.

That being said, how can you actually make money? The obvious answer is product! But… just having product “available” does not guarantee sales.

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FeedTheArts.com and FREE TIME Funding

- FeedTheArts.com is a new website introducing a way to raise money for Artists of all kinds (musicians, actors, writers, painters, etc.) using a new trade marked platform called Time Funding.

- Time Funding is a concept using virtual currency people earn on our website to fund artists’ projects (recording, marketing help, art supplies, publishers and more).  Think crowd funding without having to donate actual money.  Fans can come to our site and play games, watch videos, clip coupons and earn virtual currency called “Helping Hands”.  They can then turn around a donate those helping hands to any Artist registered to our site.  It’s free for everyone—Artists, Fans and Service Providers.  Artists no longer have to beg for money to buy those new guitar strings or pay for head shots.  They can raise the money to reach their goal at FeedTheArts.com.

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Digging Deep Into Exclusive Licensing Agreements - Do They Boost The Value Of Your Songs?

Are exclusive agreements worth the extra effort and time of pursuing? Learn the pros and cons of working with a major label or publisher to license your songs.

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Kickstarter "It Has Begun..." Single & CG Music Video

We thought you guys might be interested. It’s a kickstarter created by my family making a song and CG music video called “It Has Begun” Check it out and let us know what you think! Here’s a picture from the project …

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In Wall Speaker Placement, Finding the Optimal Sound Field

Now that you’ve spent money on that 5.1 surround sound, you want to find the perfect place to put those speakers, and because you don’t want to take up any precious floor space, you have chosen to also buy In Wall Speakers. Taking the following five tips into consideration when placing a 5.1 channel speaker system can help you get a great-sounding home theater system experience.

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MusikFly: Makes it Easy to Submit and Receive Music

As a musician it is extremely important for your music to be heard by the right people. As a blogger, it is extremely important to discover artists and help them gain publicity as efficiently as possible. I recently launched a service, Musikfly that helps both the musician and blogger to acheive these goals. Right now there are limited options out there for music submissions. Musikfly offers a simple submission platform that can be embedded into a blogger’s site and used in place of email for their submissions. So when a musician goes to their favorite blog and wants to submit their music, they just click a link, connect to their soundcloud or youtube, and add the songs they want to submit. Then once sumbitted, instead of having a clogged email inbox, the blogger has a clean filtered submission feed where they can listen to the songs and learn about the artists all on the same page.  

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