Soundrop - Bands, Claim Your Artist Room & Engage With Your Fans

Soundrop is a social music app on Spotify that allows music fans to enter rooms that host different genres and themes of music. They recently unveiled a new feature for bands and artists on Spotify, which you could be using to engage with your fans.

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Music Insurance: Is It Worth It?

Musical equipment theft is actually something that is extremely common. Unfortunately, it’s something that many musicians encounter and even some of the musical greats have found that their equipment or instruments have gone missing.

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The fan conundrum: Getting better gig opportunities without a large fan base

How does a band get better gig opportunities with promoters and venues when they struggle to gather the requisite following some promoters and venues look for?

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A 1-Step Plan To Getting Your Music Reviewed

It’s strange how the artistic collides with the commercial in dark rooms and deep intentions. It’s not a case of convincing them; even the most profound - in the sharpest sense - of musicians sometimes yearn for wider stages, longer pauses, crunchier insight.

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Tunes on TV: 5 Shows to Watch for New Music

Some television shows do such a wonderful job at selecting the soundtrack and discovering new and lesser-known artists to feature for their viewers — you can’t help but hunt down the songs on the show after you’re done watching.

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Visualizing and Ipod as Vinyl

In the digital age it can be so easy to forget just how much music we actually have access to. In the past 30 years, we’ve evolved to a place where thousands of albums can sit in our pocket. But sometimes it’s fun to take a look back and see how things used to be.

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HiFi Lessons Joins Indiegogo to Provide Pre-Sale Tickets to Students

HiFi Lessons Joins Indiegogo to Provide Pre-Sale Tickets to Students

HiFi Lessons is designed to allow students to take private, live online music lessons from the best teachers the world has to offer.  Our goal is to change the way we learn music and save music education together!

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Justin Bieber: Controversies and Fame

We have seen Justin Bieber bloomed from a little musician until he became a grown up man today. This 19-year old boy has come so far since he had his debut album in 2009. Right now, he had come so far. His popularity is not mainly because he is one good young singer. All the controversies that surround him also play a vital part of making him more of a sensation.

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Demystifying e-Commerce

In this blog post, Shachar Oren discusses what e-commerce merchant banking charges comprise of, what is involved operationally in conducting a transaction, and how to develop a strategy that is right for your business.

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Submit a pitch: win Panasonic HC-X920 & Magix Video Pro X5

Submit a pitch: win Panasonic HC-X920 & Magix Video Pro X5

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The Business of Music Licensing - eBook released

Film & TV composer Emmett Cooke who’s music has been used by Ralph Lauren, Sony Playstation, Lockheed Martin, Simon & Schuster etc. has just released a new eBook called “The Business of Music Licensing - Generating Revenue Through Your Music”.

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Music Fans You Are More Powerful Than You Think!

This is a new age – online life has allowed us to play by drastically different rules than even 10 years ago, and in just about every way. We interact with friends, plan our lives, catch up with family, and make professional connections through social media. We consume almost all of our media through the Youtubes, Spotifys, Steams, and Netflixs of the world. And almost everyone on Earth, celebrities to unknowns, are just a tweet or an email away. Not new information – we’re just setting the stage.

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The Self Storage Band - Practice Pads on the Cheap

Aspiring young musicians have been getting the dreaded practice space boot ever since the first commercially available guitar amplifier was produced by Fender in 1947. For bands that are passionate about their music and have the drive to spend hours practicing their skills, nothing is more demoralizing than having no place to play. And to add insult to injury the cost of a specially designed practice space is often out of reach, especially for hobbyist musicians.

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INDIE CONNECT TO HOST VIRTUAL CONFERENCE FOR SONGWRITERS

Songwriters from around the world will participate in the first “IC Virtual Songwriter Showcase”, an online music industry gathering from Sept. 21-22, 2013 (Saturday-Sunday).

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