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Music Submission Checklist
Whether you’re reaching out to a blog, channel or playlist curator, there are certain things that can help your music submission . Having great music is a prerequisite to great media success. St…
Lyrics Quickfix – Pointers on Efficient Writing Routines and Mindsets
There’s no reason to mystify the process of writing lyrics. If you have a solid gameplan, you’ll be able to write something decent in no time. If you know where to skip the detours, that i…
Navigating Through the Currents of Music DIY Management
DIY management is more than the honest dream of artistic and business-related emancipation. It implies the significance of concrete strategies, modes that let you work through an immense amount of int…
Working with Brands to Build a Brand
Brand partnerships can be a solid step towards audience expansion and traction increase. Working with brands can open a music catalog to new spheres of listeners, while adding a few new contours to a …
Getting Hungry – How to Self Motivate Like a Pro
The way you perceive a process is entirely up to you. You can hold on for the ride, or you can shape the direction your train is heading. Either way, there are a bunch of internal – and external – fac…
Why External Mixing (Still) Makes Sense
With a new wave of suberbly convenient software and smart services established online- and offline, it becomes easier and easier to keep the process of mixing in-house. Keeping it strictly DIY, you ca…
Follow-Up Finesse – Submit Music the Right Way
DIY artists are bound to hit a few roadblocks when they submit music. There’s a place for (almost) everyone within the blogosphere, and sometimes it just takes time and a little finesse to get t…
Common Merch Mistakes – and How to Avoid Them
For many DIY and emerging artists, merch can turn into a solid backbone of tour and production financing. And it should be treated as an untouchable grail. Just recently, loveable indie-madman Mac DeM…
How to Jumpstart a Writing Routine
Having a promising writing routine can be a vital strategy for creative output. And while there are many ideas and pointers out there on how to shape such a routine, we want to address the first impor…