The Essential 2021 Holiday Gift Guide for Musicians
Looking for the perfect gift for the musician in your life? We’ve got you covered with the 2021 edition of our annual musician’s gift guide.
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Uncancel the Holidays! Our 2020 Musician’s Gift Guide
It’s back! And we’re giving nothing else up this year. We’ve got gift items for every type of musician in your life. Check it out!
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The Essential 2018 Holiday Gift Guide for Musicians and Music Lovers
Drowning in a sea of gear searching for the perfect gift for the musician in your life? We’ve got your back with our favorite musical presents for 2018!
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How to Take Your Baby to a Concert
Just because you had a baby doesn’t mean you have to give up going to live shows. It just takes a little more planning.
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Flypaper Is Getting a Facelift — Please Bear with Us and Enjoy the New Look!
Hi Flypaper readers! You may have noticed that things are looking a little bit different around here. We’ve been hard at work of a redesign of Flypaper and we’re excited to get to show off our new look! Most of the major changes to the site will be happening today, Monday, March 6th; and we’ll be…
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Learn to Play “Starboy” by The Weeknd (Featuring Daft Punk) on Piano
For fans of The Weeknd, yesterday was a big day. Not only did he announce a new album and give it a release date, November 25th. He also debuted the cover art, revealing a new loc-less ‘do (which garnered almost as much Twitter attention as the album). And he dropped the first single from the album, “Starboy” featuring a collaboration…
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Bands, Venues, and Labels Using Pokémon GO for Music Marketing
If you’ve walked outside in any major city in the country this week, you’re likely well aware of the wildfire that is Pokémon GO. For the uninitiated, Nintendo recently released its first location-based augmented reality game, based on the ’90s franchise that imagined fictional animated creatures, or Pokémon, inhabiting the human world. Pokémon GO uses your phone’s…
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Brooklyn’s Melt Fest Organizers on How to Throw Your Own Music Festival
Last December, our friends in Brooklyn band Madam West recognized an opportunity: Because so many bands are busy making the pilgrimage to Austin for SXSW this time of year, if you happen to be a band staying put in New York in March, there are loads of amazing venues with big chunks of their normally-swamped booking calendar wide open.…
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Let’s Make Every Band a #BetterBand
Running a band can often make you feel like the first person who’s ever tried to blaze a trail through the messy mystery that is the music industry. How anyone manages to walk the line between disorganized “creatives” and the monolithic corporate structures to make it big — or even just get a decent cut of…
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Off Notes: RIP Columbia House, Prince goes Tidal, and More!
So many important things happened out in the world of music this week, and we weren’t about to let a single one slip by unnoticed. From opera in living rooms, to the demise of mail-order music, to a fond harkening back to that time when Dave Matthews Band spilled poop on everybody, we’ve got all of the…
