Playing a lot of shows is great, but if you want to build a following you need to work on the show that you put on.  Good music alone just isn’t enough sometimes, especially when your audience has never heard it. So what makes a performance memorable?  What separates successful bands from the rest? It’s [...]

Here’s a great idea for building a local following. If you live in an area that has smaller live music venues then you probably have local music papers, magazines or websites that cover them (local newspapers will also do if no publications like this exist where you live). If this is the case then you [...]

Here’s an article on signing contracts with music promoters that you should probably read. This might be a bit advanced for a band that’s just starting out, but once you start to build a following this aspect of the business is crucial. This doesn’t mean that new bands shouldn’t read it. There are shady promoters [...]