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Five Reasons For a Musician to Consider the Creative Commons
The Bazaar Cafe has a unique music policy. If you want to understand the need for a Creative Commons approach to copyright law for musicians, you could do worse than to visit San Francisco. When you...
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What to Do When You’re Playing to Eight People, and How to Make It Important
[Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Musformation. It has been edited for content and clarity, and it appears here with permission from the original site and author.] If you had to...
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Seven Unconventional Ways to Use Twitter
[Editor's Note: This post is by Jonathan Ostrow (@miccontrol), the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a social networking platform.] Discussing Twitter, its advantages and...
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What Press Releases Do That Twitter Can’t
Kanye West's Twitter background image As the music business continues to groan and writhe and metamorphose into its newest form, a lot of its former features have begun to fall off like sheaths of...
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Does Your Music Always Come Out the Way You Want It To?
Michael Cunningham, photographed by Richard Phibbs. Creativity is as much a sickness as it is a gift. On the one hand, creators are blessed with a lifetime of opportunities to bring their visions into...
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What Does YOUR Set Look Like?
Graphs of live sets by Elvis Costello, Duran Duran, Wilco, and Beastie Boys. For all the upheaval that the music industry is currently experiencing, there is one fact has remained relatively constant:...
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What’s the Best Time to Release Your Album?
Even if you're not releasing a Christmas CD, you have to think carefully about when to release your album [This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing...
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Are You Media Ready?
Are you ready to talk to journalists and bloggers about your music? [This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.]...
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10 To Do’s Before, During, and After Every Gig
Even when you're Perry Farrell at Coachella, you make time to talk with fans. Every time a band has a gig, there are certain guidelines they should follow. This checklist of 10 items will help bands...
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End Of Year Roundup: Our Friends’ Bests
All week, we’ve been hitting you with some top-shelf reviews of all the wonderful things that have been done by and happened for independent musicians. This is the recap. Some of you have been...
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