Tag: music venues

  • Looking Beyond Local: Taking Your Band to the Next Level

    Looking Beyond Local: Taking Your Band to the Next Level

    It’s a new year and among all the many resolutions you and your artistic family are bound to be pursuing, perhaps 2017 is the year your band finally decides it’s ready to take your presence to a level beyond that of your local, hometown scene. The question that immediately follows, of course, is, “Okay, but how?”…

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  • How to Send a Killer Email to Anyone in the Music Industry

    How to Send a Killer Email to Anyone in the Music Industry

    I’ve been to a lot of music conferences. At nearly every single workshop or Q&A session, the question is asked: “What are the dos and don’ts of sending emails to industry people?” Most of the time, the answers are pretty generic and simple, but to be honest, it’s a good question. A lot of people suck…

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  • Mastering Band Promotion with a Step-by-Step Daily Routine

    Mastering Band Promotion with a Step-by-Step Daily Routine

    One of the worst things about being an independent musician is the feeling of stasis: when you have no shows coming up, or you just put out an album, but you still feel like you’re going nowhere. You feel powerless against the forces of the music industry and the insane number of other people just…

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  • 5 Things to Know About Venues to Book Great Shows

    5 Things to Know About Venues to Book Great Shows

    Until about a year ago, my band fit the “bedroom musician” stereotype. I didn’t realize it at the time, but a small part of me was living what I call the Bieber Dream Syndrome — imagining that posting our music online was enough to gain a following out of nowhere. Sadly, with the majority of musicians now…

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  • 5 States with More Than 5 Awesome Cities to Tour Through

    5 States with More Than 5 Awesome Cities to Tour Through

    Smart touring means covering as many live markets as possible with the smallest amount of overhead. Being able to perform in cities a short distance away from each other saves your band transport costs, time, and energy. On major tours, small cities and college towns are often overlooked in states with big cultural epicenters, but…

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