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Articles about indie-music artist (0-50 of 131)
- Loney, Dear: The Soothing Swedish Indie Music Artist
By: Karina Daniel | - Sweden is a place where more indie music artists could be found per square mile than any other place in the world. The Swedish music scene has gradually and steadily infiltrated the music world through performers like Jens Lekman, The Cardigans, The Hives, and Peter Bjorn and John.
In addition, there is also Emil Svanangen, one-man home-recording wonder and a known multi-instrumentalist. In his tiny Stockholm apartment, he works and records his pieces just like cooking precious p ...
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- Loney, Dear: The Soothing Swedish Indie Music Artist
By: Lara Nadezda | - Sweden is a place where more indie music artists could be found per square mile than any other place in the world. The Swedish music scene has gradually and steadily infiltrated the music world through performers like Jens Lekman, The Cardigans, The Hives, and Peter Bjorn and John.
In addition, there is also Emil Svanngen, one-man home-recording wonder and a known multi-instrumentalist. In his tiny Stockholm apartment, he works and records his pieces just like cooking precious po ...
Tags: loney, dear, swedish indie, indie-music artist, swedish musics
- Internet Is The Avenue To Better Music
By: Chris Sargentelli | - If there is one thing that everybody uses the Internet for its music. With less diversity on the radio and rising album prices, the Internet has become more popular, less expensive, and a much faster alternative in finding the music you love. In rural America most people have dial up for Internet making buying music online more of a pain then a convenience.
Now with WildBlue Satellite Internet you can download all of your favorite music at speeds 30x faster then dial up. Wild Blue ...
Tags: Internet, Music, MP3, iTunes, Napster, AmazonMP3, Rhapsody
- The Best Times To Appreciate Music
By: micklee | - People take up music as a way of life even without having to go through grueling lessons of learning or trying to understand what it is. You just find yourself already loving some particular melody or tune and it becomes an integral part of you. It is so natural you dont even realize it happening. You find that you have come to like blues, emo, indie or folk songs as your favorite music.
When is the best time to appreciate music? You can enjoy it anytime, everywhere. There a ...
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- How To Make A Music Collection
By: micklee | - One of my best possessions in life is my music. Owning a music collection is no doubt a beautiful thing. Having personal copies of your favorite blues, folk, music videos and emo songs is reassuring that you hold what you love.
But how do you go about making a personal music collection? It is quiet simple. The best way to go about it is to start early. Buying music is the best way to start your own collection. It is a good idea to always window shop before proceeding with a transac ...
Tags: Songs, Music Videos, Full music videos, watch free music vid
- Ingrid Michaelson Tickets - Indie's Music Makes Prime Time
By: Brent Warnken | - Indie pop crooner Ingrid Michaelson found fame in the most unlikeliest of places - Old Navy. While her singles had already put the un-signed artist toward mainstream success thanks to the January 2007 episode of Grey Anatomy, the national exposure via the clothing company streamlined her career - with a million downloads and a Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit. Unlike other indie artists who have found their way into mainstream success via "selling out" and overexposure, Michaelson was able to lap in ...
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- Is It A Good Time To Start Record Label?
By: Jack Chapman | - The other night I was I met several MDS of major labels and wondered, "Why would anyone do this?"".
I began to consider: it would be exciting to develop a new record label, one which could become a leader in the music industry as it promoted new and "niche" artists.
What makes a label viable these days?
A few of these label owners were discussing recent deals -- primarily of the 360 or 270 kind.
(The numbers 270 and 360 here refer to degrees of ...
Tags: music business, independent music, music label, music distribution, get signed, independent label, independent labels, indie label, major labels, star
- Electronic Music Artist
By: Phillip T. Terry | - Being an electronic music artist used to place one firmly in the Avant-garde, but nowadays more people are making electric music than ever before. From Djs to synthesizer geeks, Midi composers to indie rockers, playing electronic digital music is for all sorts of different people. The question is, is it for you?
I never really considered myself an electronic music artist until recently. I was just sort of an experimental musician. Some of the things that I messed with were electro ...
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- Neko Case Tickets - One Sexy Indie Act - Just Listen To Her Music
By: Brent Warnken | - She may be a New Pornographer and the sexiest girl in indie rock on Playboy online, but for Virginia native Neko Case, sexuality is anything but her specialty. Rather, the indie rock artist prefers to keep things in tune with her musical personality, which includes a solo stint she is currently promoting and her work with the Canadian indie rockers The New Pornographers. Though she has been offered to pose in Playboy, she quietly declined, saying "I decided I wasn't going to do [the shoot] becau ...
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- Mtv | Fm Radio Mainstream Music"' Is Lame | Indie Music Online Is 4real
By: Luke Wryder | - Music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities, and memories. If you appreciate music for its artistry, not its popularity, and enjoy finding new artists with original ideas then you are in the right spot. This new stage for unheard artists is Upstream Radio powered by the USA4real.com Network.
Our independent music network provides an opportunity to hear the best new Indie Music Online. We are an Indie Music content and information we ...
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- Indie Music Online
By: Daniel Brown | - Music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. If you're interested in music appreciation, artists and performers, then you are on the right spot we will introduce you to the Wild World Web of music.
Our independent music network provides you Indie Music Online. The word independent is abbreviated as indie. We are Indie Music-oriented content and information website that provides entertainment in the form of online music ...
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- Capoeira Culture Meets Progressive Trance
By: Early Reflections | - Capoeira is a game of Brazilian origin and a form of dance and martial art that is today played throughout the world. Capoeira is a group phenomenon, performed in circle called a roda and traditional instruments are played alongside folk songs as the players engage in an acrobatic fight.
The phenomenon originates from the late 1500s in Brazil with earlier roots in various West African cultures and is believed to have been created as a way of fighting without fighting ...
Tags: Capoeira, Progressive Trance, Electronic Music, Indie music, Early Reflection Recordings, Perfecctionista
- Empowering The Fans! A Paradigm Shift In Indie Music Promotion!
By: Howard Archer | - Few people understand just how difficult it is for young emerging music artists to sustain their craft, let alone make a living at it. The world is full of talented musicians, singers and rappers who struggle every day to get their music heard and who have no real economical distribution channel for reaching the masses. The internet should have made it easier, but in fact it’s become harder than ever to rise above the noise of the millions of artists trying so desperately to be ...
Tags: music, indie, artist, musician, band, independent, fan, mp3
- The History Of Animal Collective
By: Kevin Hawkins | - Baltimore, Maryland. The band is made up of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Contributions from any or all of these members may be released under the Animal Collective name. Anima Collective was formed when the members met in school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration. The band is often classified as psych folk or noise rock, but it is hard to define the Animal Collective sound since they often exp ...
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- This History Of No Age
By: Kevin Hawkins | - No Age is an indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is signed to Sub Pop records. The name is taken from the title of a SST Records instrumental compilation from 1987, which was discovered by Spunt while he worked at Aron, a record store in Los Angeles. They have been listed as the foundation of The Smell, HEALTH, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda, BARR, and David Scott Stone. No Age has strong bonds with the ...
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- The Best Way To Promote Your Music!!! Www.musixprom.com
By: Musixprom | - MUSIXPROM
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Step 3. Upload your song for the compilation and chec out.
Dear Friends,
Musixprom is honored to announce the launch of its website www.musixprom.com. It has been created to help you in the promotion o ...
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- Mass Music Promotion On A Shoestring
By: Brent Thomason | - Music Promotion pure and simple is a numbers game. It is just like the promotion of any business service and or product. The trick is mass promotion. When I say mass promotion, I am talking about the ability to submit your music to hundreds even a thousand different sources. Sources include ezines, music magazines, internet radio stations, music web sites, music blogs, I mean everywhere.
Weather you are operating as just an independent artist or a small indie label working with a ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Indie Label Startup Pure And Simple
By: Brent Thomason | - So you want to start an indie label, become a music publisher or both.
It all boils down to what can you do with a diamond in the rough?
Here's my example.
You want to be in the game. You want to be a producer, indie label, publisher, or all three, and you want to have the ability to take yourself, and your artists to the next level, or several levels. You want to be a player. You want the ability to turn a diamond in the rough into a prize winning masterpiec ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Indie Labels Competing With Major Labels?
By: Brent Thomason | - Major music Label, and Indie music Label, who does what, and what are the differences?
I get emails constantly asking me this question. Who does what, who doesn't do what? Well the answer depends on the organization.
Generally the biggest two things that a major music label has that a indie music label does not have, is deep pockets, meaning a boatload of cash that they can invest into an artists career, they also have mass distribution outlets that just aren't ava ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- A Musical Life
By: shubhlabh | - Whether you admit it or not, music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. So if you're interested in music theory, music appreciation, Beethoven, Mozart, or other composers, artists and performers, we hope you'll spend some time with here and learn from these music articles of note for all ages and tastes.
When I first started studying the history of music, I did not realize what I was getting into. I had thought that ...
Tags: 1960s music, 80s country music, steve music, willie nelson merle haggard music, washington music event, songs, song lyrics, sell music online, secret
- Best Ways To Attract More Music Fans Faster
By: shubhlabh | - Attracting more fans. Admit it, that's what music marketing is all about -- getting more people to come to your shows and buy your CDs. And hopefully, getting a lot more people to do those things.
Why else do you work so hard to travel and play as many places as you can? For what other reason do you meticulously write and record songs? I don't believe the reason is so you can practice and keep up your chops in obscurity. It's not because you want to impress influential managers o ...
Tags: 1960s music, 80s country music, steve music, willie nelson merle haggard music, washington music event, songs, song lyrics, sell music online, secret
- A Well Rounded Musical Education Includes Theory
By: shubhlabh | - Within the musical community, there is a debate about the value of music theory that will probably never ends. Is it important to study music theory scales, or is it much better to just dive into the music and experience it viscerally. The proponents of learning the theory regarded it as an essential part of knowing how to play music. You can learn by trial and error, they say, but you would do much better to benefit from the knowledge of other people. Not learning music theory when you play mus ...
Tags: 1960s music, 80s country music, steve music, willie nelson merle haggard music, washington music event, songs, song lyrics, sell music online, secret
- Steve Conway Music Rocks In Music Industry
By: shubhlabh | - His first record contract was in Nashville with an Independent Record label. He wrote Same Old Highway which was recorded by Sonny Wright. Sonny played the song on Nashville Now and was played in almost every country in Europe. It was very exciting times. He recorded his first song at Ray Stevens Studio in Nashville. There was one song from that session that did fairly well. The song was Couldnt Love You More which he wrote and sang.
Self-Check The Music & Dec ...
Tags: 1960s music, 80s country music, steve music, willie nelson merle haggard music, washington music event, songs, song lyrics, sell music online, secret
- How To Write Song Lyrics
By: shubhlabh | - Writing lyrics is something you can learn. All you need to do is learn the basic lyric writing techniques, rhyming techniques and how to create structure. For this I would suggest you to buy music and songs of Steve Conway from http://www.steveconwaymusic.com and I am sure this will help you a lot at various levels while writing lyrics.
Self-Check The Music & Decide Your Self How Good's The Music? A Free Test Song for Steve's Fans: http://www.steveconwaymusic.com/music.html and I ...
Tags: 1960s music, 80s country music, steve music, willie nelson merle haggard music, washington music event, songs, song lyrics, sell music online, secret
- Learning And Practicing Music
By: shubhlabh | - The excitement of a new adventure is enough to provide an ample supply of positive motivation for the first several weeks of the instrumental music experience. Once the initial enthusiasm wears off, it is important to immediately develop wholesome practice habits which will guarantee a successful and personally gratifying process for your child. Your support and guidance will be the key factors in establishing the practice schedule insuring the attainment of musical goals.
For our ...
Tags: 1960s music, 80s country music, steve music, willie nelson merle haggard music, washington music event, songs, song lyrics, sell music online, secret
- Indie Musicians
By: Marcia Henin | - The crashing of so many big music labels has started the Indie musician's movement.
It's really a movement, but I refer to it this way because I look at it as a way of beating the system and the big giants that used to tell music artists what to do and used to take almost all of these artists money.
They still exist, but the internet and the illegal downloading phenomenon has made them smaller and made the artists realize that maybe taking unreasonable fee on their CD is n ...
Tags: indie artists, unsigned bands, artist managers, music managers, music industry
- Add More Myspace Plays Whenever You Want Them, Increase Plays, Get Signed And Climb The Charts
By: Clive Calvin | - If you want to jump start your myspace music promotional campaign and watch and increase your MySpace song plays you need to follow a deliberate strategy.
You can increase your Myspace music plays - Even choose how many plays go to each individual song and if you do this consistently you will get attention to your artist or band and get on the Myspace music charts.
Record labels, corporate sponsors, booking agents and music magazines all search for new music artists ...
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- Music Billboard Features New Artists
By: LanceFish4 | - New Music Billboard allows the public to listen to music for free from their favorite Indie Artist. Traditional Billboards cover mostly mainstream music, but New Music Billboards features new and up and coming Singers and Bands.
New Music Billboards features music that runs along side more mainstream or commercial music and has frequently used the term Indie music. Small labels or individuals marketing their own music often participate in the Indie Music scene. It is important t ...
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- Selling Your Music On Myspace For Independent Music Artists: Music Marketing And Promotion Tips
By: Clive Calvin | - Like many musicians, waiting for a record label to find you can take a long time and even then, it may not be worth it. Instead, musicians are taking matters into their own hands and selling music by promoting it on MySpace. Since MySpace reaches millions of viewers each day, chances are you will be able to sell your music, make a profit, and create a fan base without needing to sign a recording contract.
Being your own boss
Without a recording contract, you will b ...
Tags: myspace music marketing, indie music, independent artist, online music marketing, music promo
- A Little About Music Managment
By: Ty Cohen | - There comes a time in many musicians' lives where they feel they need management. Remember, not only signed artists feel they need management, sometimes people in the independent music field feel this way as well. A manager is someone who, in a nutshell, runs the business side of the artist's career in the music industry.
An artist or band manager will play many roles. One role they fill is handling all the music contacts. These music contacts include club owners, agents, labels, ...
Tags: music contacts, music industry, independent music
- Myspace Music Marketing:creating A Loyal Fan Base Using Myspace
By: Clive Calvin | - Creating a loyal fan base on MySpace will help your music career in many ways. If you generate enough fan enthusiasm, record labels will check out your page to see what all the buzz is about. Another reason fans are important is that they are the ones who pay to see your shows. If you have a loyal following, more invites for gigs will start rolling in - record labels will definitely take notice then.
While you have probably done all of the usual MySpace marketing like register yo ...
Tags: myspace music marketing, music marketing, indie promotion, independent artist, music promo
- Getting Your Independent Music Heard
By: Ty Cohen | - You are absolutely ecstatic because you have written all your songs, produced the music and your CD is complete!! You find yourself jumping for joy and then it dawns on you--People have got to hear this! But how? When? Where do I begin? This is the thought of many people dealing with an independent music career. And luckily independent music in the music industry can succeed!
You've finished your work now you want the world to hear your creations. It may not be until you are face ...
Tags: music contacts, music industry, independent music
- Music Contracts 101: Two Key Parts
By: Ty Cohen | - In relation to music contracts there are often two areas, the amount of produce and advancements, that artists need explained. These two areas will be mentioned in every music business contract so it is crucial you have a firm grasp on their definitions. Over the next few paragraphs, I am going to define and discuss the importance of these two areas.
First, when in comes to recording contracts, the amount of product you are expected to release is included. Everyone who is offered ...
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- Music Contracts & Royalties Defined
By: Ty Cohen | - Artists often wonder how their royalties are going to be computed when they sign music contracts. This is truly an important question because basically determines how much money is going to end up in their pockets. Recording contracts are meticulous and somewhat confusing so I will try to explain royalties to you as simple as possible.
A band or artist's royalties are totaled as a percentage of the suggested retail list price for the total number of records sold. A general percen ...
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- Exploring Music Contracts
By: Ty Cohen | - Music contracts are complex little things, aren't they? It is many an artist's dream to be offered incredible music business contracts! Understanding them when they do come along is crucial to the survival of your career. The ins and outs of recording contracts can be reviewed by an entertainment lawyer, but why not understand everything on your own in addition to this.
There may be a place in music contracts that talk about Tour Support or something along that line. Well, what e ...
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- Top Eight Tips For Indie Artists
By: Ty Cohen | - Over the next few minutes, I am going to go over some music promotional ideas, offer advice on selecting musician resources and show you how to promote your CD without emptying out your wallet. Independent artists have the upper hand and no longer have to worry about being signed to a major label to make it.
1. As I said before, you don't need a record deal to "make it" in the music industry. The industry has changed and that is no longer the absolute measure of your success. You ...
Tags: Music Promotional Ideas, How to Promote Your CD, Musician Resources
- Lucky You! The Music Biz Has Changed
By: Ty Cohen | - It will never be the same, the ball is now in the court of the artist instead of the major record label. It used to be that huge record labels controlled the music industry but today, that is not so. As an artist, you have the power to decide and control your future in the music biz. You dont have to rely on large labels to sign you. You just need to record, release and explore all music promotional ideas on how to promote your CD.
Record labels no longer can control the image, a ...
Tags: Music Promotional Ideas, How to Promote Your CD, Musician Resources
- Indie Artists And The Digital Age
By: Ty Cohen | - Let me start with this, getting rich in the music industry now a days is possible. With all the music promotional ideas and musician resources out there on the web you can be a success. The only question is, will you take full advantage and become rich as well? You no longer have to depend on someone (meaning major labels) who doesn't get your music to discover you and make you a success.
Whether your genre is alternative, rap, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, country or folk, it doesn't even ...
Tags: Music Promotional Ideas, How to Promote Your CD, Musician Resources
- Doing It Yourself, Indie Artists
By: Ty Cohen | - I would like to take a moment to recognize all the Indie musicians out there. Amazingly, 20+ years ago it was not quite as easy to make it as an Indie musician. Luckily, for these folks, the new millennium has brought about many opportunities for these artists to make it big in the music industry without the assistance of a major record label or company. This is possible today because the music promotional ideas out there are limitless.
In case you are not familiar, an "Indie" or ...
Tags: Music Promotional Ideas, How to Promote Your CD, Musician Resources
- Has The Music Industry Shifted?
By: Ty Cohen | - What is an artist to do when people no longer pay $19.99 for a compact disc? Driving down the road the other day, while listening to the satellite radio, I wondered, why anyone even purchased over priced CD's from the record store at all? I am assuming that the music industry is shifting or possibly being shoved. The amazing thing is that there are millions of artists out there who aren't even worrying about getting a record deal. They are paving their own path to success with online music promo ...
Tags: online music promotion, music promotion resources, independent music promotion
- Music Downloading - Legal, Legit And Fun
By: Chris Campbell | - Music downloading is here to stay, it's legit, it's legal, and everyone is doing it. The internet is a disruptive technology, and music downloading was the first real poster child for all that disruptive behavior. Apart from a few unmentionable topics, music was and still is one of the biggest looked for and downloaded items on the internet. And just as well it should be. It makes perfect sense. It fits, it's convenient, it better for the artists, and in the long run, better for the consu ...
Tags: music, music download, free music, free music download,
- Indie Music
By: Ameet Arurkar | - Indie music is a type of alternative rock which exists in the independent music world. The word is periodically used to refer to all underground music, and is the opposite of indie pop music. Indie rock music places an emphasis on electric instruments such guitars and drums. Musicians in the genre are also known for using abstract sounds. The term indie rock is used because musicians work under smaller record labels instead of the major record companies.
Though indie rock isn't te ...
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