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- Martin Atkins At The New Music Seminar 2010 (Part 1)
- Derek Sivers On Perspectives On Value
- Oh Sleeper Explains Why You Can't Win As A Mid-Level Touring Band
- Nimbit Discusses Fan Interaction At The New Music Seminar 2010
- How To Tell How Loud Your Record Should Be
- Big Champagne Launches The Ultimate Chart
- Headliner FM Offering New Features To Promote Your Music
- How Bandcamp Will Handle Free Downloads Now That They Will Be Charging
- Planning Far Ahead Is A Waste Of Time
- Courtney Holt Discusses Future Of Myspace Music At New Music Seminar 2010
- Veoba Offers CD + LP Manufcaturing, Online Distro, Merch, A Venue Datasbase And More
- Metric Use Facebook Share's To Unlock Extra Content
- Ditto Music Launch 24 Hour iTunes Service
- MUST READ - Your Future in Music Depends on What You Know, Not Who You Know
- Who Are The Millenials
- MOG Launches Mobile App
- Finding A Good Manager - Avoid The Yes Men
- GuGuChu Launches It's First Generation Of Widgets
- Announcement - We Now Have a Forum!
- How To Get Your Facebook Band Page To Default To MyBand
- Bandcamp Announces It Will Start To Take A 10-15% Cut!
- So When Do We Start Making Money? - Touring Band Edition
- Make Your Facebook A Memorable Fowarding URL
- A Few Tips For Executing A Better Jango Campaign
- An Perfect Example Of How To Ask A Blog To Take Down Your Music
- Sequencing Your Record Pitfalls - From Best To Worst
- Fairshare Music Is A Philanthropic Music Sales Site Where You Choose The Charity
- If You Have Rough Mixes Put Them To Use
- Using A Jango Focus Group
- The Android App Inventor Is A Easy To Use Android Development Platform
- Thounds Is A Sample Collaboration/Online Music Recorder Type Thing
- Jeff Price Of TuneCore Slams Tom Silverman Of New Music Seminar
- Listen To Pomplamoose Talk About Making a Living Off Music Without Touring
- Reverb Nation's My Band App Gets Way Better!
- 10 Things You Should Know About Recording Drums
- Band Tip: Learn How To Set Up Other Members' Gear
- How To Get A Easy To Remember, Simple URL For Your Facebook Page
Finally! We now have a forum where you can discuss the new music business, gear, websites and promotion tactics for your music. Todd and I often talk about our disgust with many of the forums today in the music biz. Unfortunately, mods let trolls and negativity run rampant in fear of alienating their users instead of trying to create a positive and productive environment. Our goal with the Musformation Forum is to curate discussions that are positive and intelligent in the music community. Feel free to go there and discuss anything about music. Enjoy.
Thounds looks to be an interesting way to collaborate with other musicians online. With interesting social features the site looks like it can open up some fun opportunities.
- Interview With A Master Engineer: Fred Kevorkian
- The Effect Of The Facebook Like Button On Artist Pages
- Amazon Launches Customizable Artist Central Website
- Merchluv Offers Groups A Means To Do Innovative Merch On A Budget
- Watch A Tour Of Rdio
- Dropping the Bass In and Out
- Merge.FM Allows Fans And Others To Collaborate On The Songwriting Process
- Pandora's Tim Westergren On Charlie Rose
- A Few Ways To Get More Fans On Jango
- TuneCore Now Allows Multiple Uploads
- Dynamics In Songwriting - Making It Work
- Pay With A Tweet Is Another Way To Give Out Tracks For Tweets
- MacForMusicians Teaches You How To Make Music On A Mac
- Dont Bother Your Manager With The Little Things
- PayPal Mobile Express Checkout Allows iPhone Purchases To Be Made Easier
- Uploading Samples To SoundCloud Using Scup
- How To Run A Successful Campaign On Headliner FM
- Why You Should Keep Word Press's 2010 Theme On Your Blog
- Cool New DropBox Tricks
- SoundAround Band Based iPhone App Builder Has Launched
- BandsInTown Facebook App Is A Fantastic Way To List Shows
- Sayvee Is A Musician Aimed Website Builder
- ArtistData Releases Some Updated Features
Coming from Berlin-based electronic artists Skinnerbox, sbx 2049 is a totally free drum machine made with Max for Live. Integrated with a pattern sequencer, sbx2049 is a six-voice synthesis based drum machine. As you'll see in the video, it's pretty powerful. Available here.
- Interview With An Author: Randy Chertkow -The Indie Band Survival Guide
- Some Tips On Spreading Your Music On Tumblr
- Great DJ Tool - Mixed In Key In Action
- Friendly Music Makes Music Licensing Easy!
- Devote Your Oversharing To One Site
- Free eBook: How To Really Get Your Music Covered On Blogs
- An Overview Of DropBox's Useful Features For Musicians
- Enable Your Fans To Follow you At FourSquare And Reap The Benefits
- Google Voice Now Available To Everyone Is The USA!
- TuneCore Now Aggregating To Spotify
- Flavors.Me Is An Easy Website Builder
- FanBridge Announces iPhone Fan Collector App
- On iTunes In Less Than 24 Hours via TuneCore
- Using Reverb Nation To Spread Your Music
- Op-Ed: Major On The Major and Minor On The Minor
- The Stupid Thing Every Band Does - Having A Terrible PA
- Variable Merch Prices Can Reward You In Sales
- Pros And Cons of Signing A Publishing Deal
- A Few Tips On Becoming A Better Engineer
- Cool Merch Idea: Custom Sigg Bottles
- Don't Sleep On Reverb Nation's Fantastic Gig Finder
- YouTube Busts Out Online Video Editor For Editing Uploaded Clips Together
- Mixlr Is A uStream Like Audio Streaming Service
- Sound Around Is A Band Orientated iPhone App Builder
- Starbucks To Offer Free Unlimited Wi-Fi
- Organizing Your Merch: Include A Show Schedule
- ArtistData Acquired By SonicBids, Gold & Platinum Services Free For The Summer
- How To Make A Fast, Easy And Good Looking MySpace Layout
Musformation is filled with a lot of information - the kind we believe can bring you ultimate success in the music business. But just what do we do with this deluge of data and knowledge? Even for us, the primary authors, it's often overwhelming. With all the advice and options out there for how to improve your songwriting, shows, production and sales, it can be quite confusing as to what one should do next, where to spend money, how best to spend your time, etc.
I didn't respect many of my teachers in high school, but one of my history teacher's favorite maxims my senior year was something I'll always remember: "Major on the major and minor on the minor." What the hell exactly does that mean? Choose the things that are most important to work on and don't sweat the smaller stuff. If your band doesn't have a decent recording yet, it's probably not important that you spend all your time worrying about the type-face on your Myspace layout, or the 15th new t-shirt design for your band when you haven't released a new single in 10 months.
Pick and choose your battles and don't get caught up in the minutia. We provide a hell of a lot of information, but we're the first to say that it's not for everyone nor is all of it the most pertinent stuff you should be worrying about. We want to put up all the data out there and let you decide what is worth doing and what is not. Further, no one is in the exact same boat, so as songwriters, producers and artists ourselves, we must do the same.
When getting bogged down with an enormous project or to do list, ask yourself: "is any of this going to make a significant impact on the goals for my music?" If the answer is no, move on to something that is likely to produce significant results for your music. Your music, like most everything else, is a business and you too should be looking out for that magic formula of maximum return on minimum investment.
I didn't respect many of my teachers in high school, but one of my history teacher's favorite maxims my senior year was something I'll always remember: "Major on the major and minor on the minor." What the hell exactly does that mean? Choose the things that are most important to work on and don't sweat the smaller stuff. If your band doesn't have a decent recording yet, it's probably not important that you spend all your time worrying about the type-face on your Myspace layout, or the 15th new t-shirt design for your band when you haven't released a new single in 10 months.
Pick and choose your battles and don't get caught up in the minutia. We provide a hell of a lot of information, but we're the first to say that it's not for everyone nor is all of it the most pertinent stuff you should be worrying about. We want to put up all the data out there and let you decide what is worth doing and what is not. Further, no one is in the exact same boat, so as songwriters, producers and artists ourselves, we must do the same.
When getting bogged down with an enormous project or to do list, ask yourself: "is any of this going to make a significant impact on the goals for my music?" If the answer is no, move on to something that is likely to produce significant results for your music. Your music, like most everything else, is a business and you too should be looking out for that magic formula of maximum return on minimum investment.
- How To Use MySpace Artist Dashboard Analytics To Help Your Group
- iTunes Exclusive Tracks? No Way! Bandcamp Exclusive Tracks!
- How To Join YouTube's Revenue Sharing Program
- Organize Your Merch: Roll Your Shirts With Rubberbands
- 5 Not Obvious And Awesome Ways To Use SoundCloud
- Songwriting Tips: Even On Vocals, Melody Is King
- Jango Now Allows Mass Emailing Your Fans
- TuneCore Can Now Get You On MediaNet Sites Like MOG
- Formspring Is A Quick And Interesting Way To Connect With Your Fans
- An Introduction To Audio Boo
- Uvumi Is A Music Discovery For New Artists
- Allow Taping At Your Shows To Keep Fans Happy
- Upload And Share Art And Other Files With Google Docs
- Aviary Launches "Garageband In The Cloud" Music Creation Tool Roc
- uSocial.net Is A Pay For Digg Votes Service
- The Nuts And Bolts Of Touring
How does it work? It's science, dummy. Now don't you wish your drummer could get it together like this?
- Interview With An Artist/Author: Hugh MacLeod
- Using FourSquare To Help Your Music
- Interview With A Record Label A&R Rep - Achal Dhillon From Almost Gold Recordings
- Pick A Format And Get To Work
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- Rdio Is Another New Music Streaming Subscription Site
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- Marcato Musician Is A Online Manager For Your Group
- Using FourSquare To Help Your Music
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- Chartfixer Will Put You On The Singles Charts For A Pay To Play Price
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