Blog Profile / We All Make Music
| URL : | http://weallmakemusic.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment Industry / Music Industry | |
| Posts on Regator: | 510 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.3 | |
| Archived Since: | June 11, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
How to Use Email to Promote Your Music Without Alienating Your Audience
For a moment, just imagine that you received an email about this very article, and that the email read as follows: To: WeAllMakeMusic_Reader From: noreply@noreply555.com Subject: New Article Just Published! Hey %$firstname$%, How are you? Week’s going great here, and hope yours is, too. There’s a new article up on the site. Please consider reading [...]
Make The Perfect Electronic Press Kit
Electronic Press Kits (EPKs) come in all shapes and sized. There is a right way to make an EPK, and a wrong way. They can help a band obtain great shows, reviews, and press, but they can also take away opportunities if they are poorly constructed. Here are some surefire tips for making the perfect [...]
8 Ways to Make Your Music Video Release Huge
A music video is a powerful promotional tool. It can help your band portray an image while reaching new markets and fans. There is much more to releasing a music video than just tossing it up on YouTube. Here are 8 points to remember when creating and releasing a music video. Make a Big Deal [...]
Goodbye?
As of today, We All Make Music is going on what a band might call “an indefinite hiatus.” I’m not going to get into the whys and the wherefores here. Instead, I want to focus on how amazing it was to run this site for a year and a half. I learned a lot, I [...]
Designing (And Constructing) Your Reflection-Free Zone
In part three of this series, we looked at the three components of acoustic treatment: acoustic panels, bass traps and diffusors. Now I’m going to show you how to put them to use. First, let’s go over the thing that will instantly improve the sound of any room, regardless of its size: the Reflection-Free Zone [...]
Mastering The E-Mail Interview
If you think you’ve mastered the art of the media interview, congratulations. But that doesn’t mean you’ve got it all figured out. There’s still the process of mastering e-mail interviews! Bloggers and journalists are usually excited about doing email interviews with musicians, until they get the responses back and realize that the sub-par answers barely [...]
14 Dos and Do Nots For Your Band’s Next Residency
[Editor's Note: This is part two of Ryan Sweeney's series about the merits of securing a residency for your band. We're posting them on his behalf because he's out in the sticks of Brazil with a band right now] Curating a residency can be great for an artist’s career. If done correctly, it is a [...]
The Benefits – And Risks – Of A Residency
[Editor's Note: The following is the first in a series of articles by Ryan Sweeney about getting a residency for your band] A residency is a phenomenal opportunity to give fans something unique. Though they come in all shapes and sizes – three or four shows on consecutive nights, one show a week for several [...]
How DJ Monitor Helps Remunerate Independent Dance Artists
If your music is being used by DJs to enhance their sets, you want to make sure you’reit would be nice to know you’re getting paid to be as well as played. That’s where DJ Monitor comes in. Since 2005, the Dutch organization has been working to ensure that artists are compensated when their work [...]
Connecting Your Fan Base: Tips From Major Label Bands
“Connect With Your Fans!” If you regularly visit any music industry blogs you likely read this all the time. It’s important advice, but there’s another step that’s just as important: helping the people in your fan base connect to each other. Once you start to have any sort of success, you won’t be able to [...]
The Top Five Apps for Musicians on SoundCloud
As more and more artists try to go it alone in this do-it-yourself music era, they are taking advantage of web apps that let them create and share their tracks in ways they never could before. The app gallery at SoundCloud—the popular outlet for musicians to share their work directly with fans, other artists and [...]
Success Stories: Holcombe Waller’s Bed-Ins
In the past couple of years, hotels have started to more fully embrace the role of music presenter: series like the Renaissance Hotel’s RLife Live and venues like the Maritime Hotel’s Hiro Ballroom offer guests access to big-name artists, while almost any hotel with a restaurant or a large-ish lobby offers exposure opportunities to the [...]
Why NXNE is Better Than SXSW
Mention South by Southwest to any band, and they will know exactly what you are talking about. Mention North by Northeast (a.k.a. NXNE), however, and you might get some puzzled looks. But for a young band, if I had to pick between SXSW and NXNE, there is no doubt in my mind that I would [...]
Why Independent Musicians Still Need Studios
[The following guest post is by Denise Barbarita, a freelance recording engineer and artist based in New York.] If you’re an independent musician thinking about how you’re going to make your next recording, odds are you’ve heard something like this: “Musicians can take the bull by the horns and go totally rogue. “Studios are so [...]
How to Write Library Music That Sells
[Editor's Note: The following post is the second in veteran composer, studio musician, consultant and writer Eric Jensen's multi-part series about library music. Previous entries can be found here] The licensing opportunities for library music continue to expand as do the catalogs and business models. With up-front fees shrinking, how do you increase your chance [...]
Ranking Your Fans From 1 to 5 (And What Those Ratings Mean)
[Editor's Note: The following post is by Ryan Sweeney, who's currently recovering from a week up at NXNE with his artists] My last article touched on the use of third party e-mail marketing systems like Mail Chimp and Constant Contact. These sites allow bands to track which e-mail subscribers open e-mails, click on their links, [...]
The Importance of Knowing What You “Sound Like…”
Why every musician should define their sound in the music industry.
Behind the Blogs: We Are The Kids
Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. Youth is one of the biggest, loudest, most powerful engines of the music industry. Kids buy the most music, go to the most shows, and as [...]
Tools For Fixing Your Home Studio Acoustics
As stated in the previous articles in this series, soundproofing your home studio can be an expensive, time-consuming proposition. Luckily, treating the acoustics of your home studio is quite the opposite. Believe it or not, it’s not that expensive and can be done in a matter of hours if you have the building blocks on [...]
How to Use “MP3 For E-Mail” to the Fullest
As previously discussed, giving away access to content online is a great way to build up your e-mail list. I’ve seen bands use MP3s, unreleased live footage, and even free concert tickets to do this, but whatever you decide to give away to your subscribers, the most important thing is what you do with those [...]