Do-It-Yourself

Get a Beta Account for LoopPort’s Royalty Free Sample Service

Loopport is a new company — currently in private beta — entering the royalty free audio sample space, but with a professional subscription spin. In a nutshell, DJs, musicians, bands, and producers will pay a monthly fee (though I’m not sure what that fee will be) to have unlimited access to an ever-renewing library of [...]


Crowdsourcing Album Song Selection With A Jango Focus Group

Brian at Passive Promotion (and artist Color Theory) wrote a great post about how he used Jango to determine which songs he should feature, and which he should cut, in his next album. Basically, he paid for plays, focusing on a demographic and music taste profile that fits his own style, looked for top performers, [...]


7 Ways to Sell Your Music on iTunes

PLEASE READ:  Because you demanded it, ALL pricing, UPC/ISRC, and Digital Distribution info below is now up to date as of 3/2/2012! Any musician seriously considering digital distribution is thinking about getting their music on iTunes. iTunes controls between 60-80% of digital music sales, depending on who you ask.  Fortunately, the once impossible task is [...]


MuckWork – Derek Sivers’ Outsourcing Service for Bands


39 Ways to Recession Proof Your Music Career


NJ Recording Studios ‘n’ Home Recording


Big Recording Studios vs. Home Recording Studios


The New Artist 2.0