On the one hand, it’s just cool. To see your name or band name on a t-shirt or concert poster carries a certain amount of gratification in and of itself. But on the other, more important hand, […]

If you’ve already been trying to promote your music online, then you know how difficult it can be make your music stand out against all the other artists attempting to…

The reasons for the need for band contracts are wide-ranging and varied, but perhaps the best way to illustrate just how important they are is to look at examples of bands with unfavorable contracts or, worse, no contracts.

As Craig Finn, lead singer of the Hold Steady sings on “Positive Jam,” the first song on the band’s first album, we live in a world that is “wired and well connected.” And needless to say, […]

I am constantly stopped in the street by ordinary people who see my armful of tattoos and my rather shabby appearance, and who want to know if I am in a band. It seems like a […]