MusicianWages.com, Music Careers at About.com and KnowtheMusicBiz.com have organized a group blogging event for today, April 16th.  The event is based around a concerned mother’s situation regard her son’s downloading of songs through file sharing. Music blogger, like myself are encouraged to write a post addressing the concerns of this woman nammed Valerie.  Here’s the [...]

You may have heard that there is an effort under way to make it legal for internet service providers to charge website owners for preferred loading speed; meaning, large companies, who can afford it will have the way faster load times and downloads than small indie sites like this one… and probably yours to. As [...]

A few years back I read an article that asked several famous and successful people what was the best best advice that they’ve ever received. Most of the advice was pretty cookie cutter; it’s what you would expect to read in an article like that. There was one piece of advice that was pretty good [...]

Here’s a fun article that I found on practicing on the street and getting paid as a street musician and getting paid for it. If you don’t already know, I live just outside New York and have seen street musicians all of my life. A recent development (within the past few years anyway) has been [...]

In the world of business literature there’s always talk of “networking” and how to do it. It’s smart really as networking is a means by which you can get support when you need it and stumble upon unique opportunities that you wouldn’t have gotten if you didn’t know the right people. For your music career, [...]

The other night I was having a discussion with my friend. We were talking about how far along home recording technology has come; with the tremendous advances made in the technology, and the effects compression has on all recorded music, it’s very difficult to distinguish a well produced home recording from a studio recording. The [...]

To truly learn a foreign language, you must immerse yourself in that language. There’s no better way to pick up how the language works than to get the total experience of it. Newspapers, television, books and regular conversation all force you into the mindset and fluency soon follows. The same is true for any subject [...]

Have you ever seen a show where the singer gives a high energy performance and come back in after a solo completely out of breath? Panting, they make their way through the rest of the song and seem to have a lot of difficulty with their vocals. Maybe they tone it down for the rest [...]

We’re kind of used to musicians being referred to as “artists” in a live situation. The truth is that while a musician might be an artist in the songwriting stage of the musical process, they aren’t really creating when they perform. The ability to perform is a more a skill than an art; much like [...]

The best part about growing a following is that it helps to prepare you as a performer. Starting small is like an education, in that you can improve in tiers as your fan base expands. Few people have the ability to get up in front of people with no fear from the start. The vast [...]