The world of DIY Music PR work can be overwhelming: You have to initiate your own send-outs, deliver follow-ups and keep an eye on recent activity, creating your own reports. This is where music blogs…
Defining Your Creative Cornerstones
Finding and defining your strengths can be a tricky endeavor: the more you draw from a variety of different influences and strengths, the harder the process of narrowing down your creative cornerstone…
Distilling the Magic of Live Off-Days
More often than not, live-off days are the result of minor gaps in a given booking schedule. Some musicians use these days to work on various adjustments to their live sets. Others just kick back and …
7 Effective Ways to Sharpen Your Online Artist Profile
Most artists are quite well equipped on a single platform, being the strongest one and while certain platforms have turned into dominant players, others are easily neglected. To help you keep an eye o…
9 Exciting Challenges of Current D.I.Y. Realities
We collected some interesting challenges many D.I.Y. musicians face – and also some ideas on how to master them. Tag on and let’s get cooking: Dealing with the peripheral workload Problem…
ANT ANTIC: “Don’t Forget to Fucking Enjoy It”
After Ant Antic released their debut album “Wealth” in early 2017, they managed to not only bring forth an outstanding, bass-heavy piece of music, but also played successful shows includin…
Agree to Disagree – Musical Friction as a Potential
The fundamental idea behind musical friction is mutual progress. It takes a lot more energy to break out of an echo-chamber, looking for opinions that greatly diverge from one’s own. We gathered sever…
Compassion in Creation – Fostering Your Music Ecosystem
Maintaining tight relationships within your personal music ecosystem is incredibly important, no matter which stage of musical development you’re in. There’s a huge difference between short-term, situ…
Getting the Most out of Your Spotify Bio
Spotify just recently rolled out a new tool that lets you modify your own bio – up till now they obtained all their data from an external contractor, leaving little room for personal adjustment.…
5 Minute Flash – Igniting That Creative Bolt
Learning how to ignite that creative bolt is incredibly important when working in a professional music environment. Sometimes creative energy keeps coming in like out of a garden-hose, sometimes you h…