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The Rise and Fall of the Hit | The era of the blockbuster is so over. The niche is now king, and the entertainment industry – from music to movies to TV – will never be the same. | Wired |
Live In Concert - Coming To A Laptop Near You?
"Moogis.com is a Web-based distribution platform for streaming video of live or archived concerts" Music Dish
Vevo Negotiating With CBS, NBC For Original Music Programming | "Plans to launch a video streaming site by the end of the year that is similar to YouTube, except that it will offer only “professional”
content — beginners need not apply" | Billboard / Wired |
Virtual Musicians, Real Performances: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Music
See Zenph on YouTube - See Michael Lawrence Films Bach Project -
"Musicians’ opportunities to sell their recordings may be drying up due to cultural shifts brought on by changing technology, but other aspects of technology are creating a promising new market for music: the licensing of the musical style or personality of recording artists"
Wired - Elliot van Buskirk
Imeem: Store Music In The Cloud, Access It On The iPhone
Wired
Sweden Sees Music Sales Soar After Crackdown On File Sharing
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The Music Streams That Soothe An Industry - NY Times - Brad Stone | "Watchers of the music business say a fundamental shift is under way toward licensed streaming services, supported by ads" |
Qtrax Signs Third Major Label Deal - with Sony | Wired - By Eliot Van Buskirk | Qtrax offers music files to download. This service includes an ad with file |
Microsoft Launches 'Unsigned' Band Site | Wired - By Eliot Van Buskirk |
Knol @ Google: Music Distribution | Nick Crocker | "What is digital distribution, why you need someone else to do it for you, how that 'someone else' structures their business and makes money, the right questions to ask and the the benefits of doing it." |
REM Will Pre-Release Album as ILike Stream
Wired - By Eliot Van BuskirkReznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free
"Trent Reznor released a new Nine Inch Nails record over the weekend and has already sold out his 2,500 deluxe editions at $300 a pop.
This is what "competing with free" looks like." - ArsTechnicaLive Music Webcasting Starts Making Sense in 2008
Eliot Van Buskirk - WiredMoby Gives His Music Away to Indie Filmmakers | triggerstreet.com — | Musician Moby has become the latest artist to give away tracks for free, but not to just anybody... he's showing some love to independent filmmakers, letting indie, student and non-profit filmmakers use select songs for free |
Oink Users Recall Defunct Song-Swap Site's Strange, Stringent Rules | Wired |
Zune users to be paid for sharing songs? - by Steve O'Hear (editor) | Last 100.com |
The ASCAP Resource Guide: ASCAP Information & Publications
Mi2N | What Price Did You Choose? The Radiohead In Rainbows Survey |
Zune users to be paid for sharing songs? - by Steve O'Hear (editor) | Last 100.com |
Radiohead has probably made close to $10 million in one week "selling" In Rainbows | That's more than their last three releases combined. - TheSeminal
Free Music Now! Lala.com's Plan to Give Songs Away Could Upend the Industry | Wired |
Our entitlement mentality: An artist's perspective on music piracy | Puddlegun.net
Imeem Pioneers Free Music With Ads | By Saul Hansell - NY Times
C/NET | Ad-supported SpiralFrog finally launches music site | More than seven months behind its launch date, the once-heralded start-up overcomes internal strife and is finally ready to battle file sharing |
Telegraph | EMI warning on internet music | "The industry must brace itself for change and wean itself off its dependence on CD sales, the new owner of music giant EMI has warned" |
BusinessWeek | The Big Record Labels' Not-So-Big Future |
C/NET | Add Oasis to the list of bands considering music giveaway |
Telegraph | Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead |
NY Times | Radiohead’s Warm Glow |
ArsTechnica | Universal prepping revolutionary free music service |
The Future Of Music | The End of Control |
PC World | Universal Takes Aim at iTunes; Can "Free" Music Work? |
Gadgetall | Free BBC content online |
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The market for CDs has collapsed, and not even the rise of legal downloading can offset the damage to record companies. |michaelgeist.ca | Canada's RIAA admits downloading is legal |
last100.com | Winamp Goes Where iTunes Doesn't Dare | — Winamp 5.5 (Beta) sports two new and potentially controversial features: support for mp3 blogs and the ability to stream your music collection over the Internet |
Coolfer - Universal Music Group to Sell USB Singles | The last we heard about USB drives was HMV's plans to include the storage devices in its renovated retail stores. Today I saw an article that said Universal Music Group is going to release upcoming U.K. singles by Keane and Pussycat Dolls on USB memory sticks
Record Industry's Survival In The Digital Age | Musicdish |
Magnatune an Open Choice, iTunes an Expensive Choice | Magnatune is not only an independent, on-line record label, but also a company that wants to change how music is distributed and open up possibilities for less-known bands and artists | MagPortal |
Digital Freedom | Bill Would Require Taxpayers to Pay $100 Billion for Students' Music Subscriptions | Wired |
Interview: Peter Rojas of RCRD LBL | RCRD LBL | RCRD LBL Solves the Free Music Riddle | Wired |
Universal CEO Doug Morris: Major Labels Clueless about Technology | Wired |
CD Sales Down 27 Percent in October; Floor Space Shrinking | Wired |
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America | These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country. | PC World |
Global Licensing: One Possible Stage in the Major Labels' Implosion | Wired |
Macs, PCs and Music Downloads | Mac owners most likely to have paid for downloads. | NY Times |
ISPs And P2Ps Cooperate to Increase the Speed of Sharing | Wired |
Stars Are Aligning for Subscription Music
The Facebook Generation wants instant access to its tunes. A big iTunes library may be optional - BusinessWeekSample the Future
Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD,
copyrighted for the 21st century - WiredA brave new world: the music biz at the dawn of 2008 - By Nate Anderson - ArsTechnica |
Thinking beyond the CDLabel and Tech Execs On Marketing Music via Social Networks | By Eliot Van Buskirk - Wired |
How To Take Your Music Open Source With Ogg Vorbis | Wired - How To Wiki |
Giving Music Away: A Career-Changing Decision | How The G-Man Got Played, Got Signed, Got a Publisher, & Got On iTunes By Giving His Music Away For Free - Music Dish |
The Music Industry's Extortion Scheme | Slate | "The record labels want you to pay a tax on music. It's not as horrible as it sounds" |
MySpace Music: Launching a Free-Music Revolution | Time.com | By Josh Quittner | "Starting 09-25, the new MySpace Music service will offer its members over 2 million tunes from the catalogs of four major music labels — for free" |
More DRM-Free Major Label Music Sneaks onto iTunes | Wired - By Eliot Van Buskirk |
College Radio Endures in a Digital World | NY Times - By BEN SISARIO | "Music industry insiders say student stations, like WRPI, headed by Blair Neal, above, still help to break new acts." |
Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic | NY Times - By TIM ARANGO |
Apple: iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info | Slashdot |
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Digital Music: Booklist
- Producing Great Sound for Digital Video by Jay Rose
- MySpace Music Marketing: How to Promote & Sell Your Music on the World's Biggest Networking Web Site by Bob Baker
- Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max by Todd Winkler
- The Musician's Internet: Online Strategies for Success in the Music Industry (Music Business) by Peter Spellman
- Sell Your Music : How To Profitably Sell Your Own Recordings Online by Mark W. Curran
- Home Recording Power! by Ben Milstead
- How to Do Everything With MP3 and Digital Music by Dave Johnson
- Audio Postproduction for Digital Video by Jay Rose
- iPod & iTunes for Dummies by Tony Bove
- Music Distribution And the Internet: A Legal Guide for the Music Business by Andrew Sparrow
- MP3 Power! With Winamp by Justin Frankel
- The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan
- MP3: The Definitive Guide by Scot Hacker
- Make Your Own Music Video by Ed Gaskell
- The New Music Industry: How to Use the Power of the Internet to Multiply Your Industry Exposure, Fan Base and Income Potential Online! by Ty Cohen
- MP3 for Dummies by Andy Rathbone
- Music for New Media: Composing for Videogames, Web Sites, Presentations and Other Interactive Media (Book & CD) by Paul Hoffert
- DVD Authoring and Production by Ralph LaBarge
- Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment by William W. Fisher III
- The Complete Guide to Internet Promotion for Musicians, Artists, & Songwriters by John Dawes
- Instant Sound Forge (VASST Instant) (Instant Series) by Jeffrey P. Fisher
- Web Design: Music Sites (Taschen Icons)
- Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (Critical Media Studies) by Patrick Burkart
- The Mp3 and Internet Audio Handbook: Your Guide to the Digital Music Revolution by Bruce Fries
- The Rough Guide to Internet Radio 1 (Rough Guide Internet/Computing) by L. A. Heberlein
- Mac Home Recording Power! (Power) by Ben Milstead
- Using Soundtrack: Produce Original Music for Video, DVD, and Multimedia by Douglas Spotted Eagle
- Users' Guide to Logic Audio 5 (Users' Guide To...) by Stephen Bennett
- Sound FX by Alex Case
- YourSpace 2: Interviews with MySpace Musicians, Filmmakers, Models and Friends by Steve Monas
- Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3: Music on the Internet by Rod Underhill
- All You Need to Know About Music & the Internet Revolution by Conrad Mewton
- Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox by Paul Goldstein
- Music Online for Dummies by David Kushner
- The Encyclopedia Of Native Music: More Than A Century Of Recordings From Wax Cylinder To The Internet, Illustrated with Photographs and Album Covers by Brian Wright-McLeod
- Cybersounds: Essays On Virtual Music Culture (Digital Formations) by Michael D. Ayers
- iPod Shuffle Fan Book: Life Is a Playlist (Fan Book) by Jude Biersdorfer
- Instant Surround Sound Audio by Jeffrey P. Fisher
- How to DVJ: A digital DJ masterclass by Charles Kriel
- MIDI Editing in Cubase: Skill Pack by Steve Pacey
- Instant Digital Audio: Production and Postproduction for Video and Multimedia (VASST Instant) (Instant Series) by Douglas Spotted Eagle
- Mp3 for Musicians: Promote Your Music Career Online by John V. Hedtke
- The Way of Music: Aural Training for the Internet Generation by Robin Maconie
- The Official Mp3.Com Guide to Mp3 by Michael Robertson
- The Virtual Guitarist: Hardware, Software, and Websites for the Guitar (Classic Rock Albums) by Fred Noad
- Music.Dot.Com by Roger Walton
- The Digital Songstream: Mastering the World of Digital Music by Brad Hill
- MP3 Underground: The Inside Guide to MP3 Music, Napster, RealJukebox, MusicMatch, and Hidden Internet Songs (With CD-ROM) by Ron White
- Virtual Music: How the Web Got Wired for Sound by William Duckworth
- The Musician's Guide to the Internet by Gary Hustwit
- The Art Of Downloading Music by Steve Levine
- Buying & Selling Music, Instruments, and Music Collectibles on eBay (Buying & Selling on Ebay) by Mark Abdelnou
- Conglomerate Rock: The Music Industry's Quest to Divide Music and Conquer Wallets by David J. Park
- Creating a Music Website by Mike Simmons
- Digital Video Made Easy by Don Lindich
- The Downloader's Music Source Book: How to Find What You Want on the Net by Dave McAleer
- Essential Computers: Playing Music on Your PC by Rob Beattie
- Interactive Music Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Internet Music Strategies, Enhanced Cd Production and Business Development by Jodi Summers
- Internet Killed the Video Star by Andre Gray
- The Music Geek's Bible by Mike Evans
- MySpace for Musicians by Fran Vincent
- Online Music: Will Small Music Labels And Entrepreneurs Prosper in the Internet Age by Committee on Small Business
- Plug in: The Guide to Music on the Net by Ted Gurley
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Music Distribution: Articles & Reports
Telegraph | EMI warning on internet music | "The industry must brace itself for change and wean itself off its dependence on CD sales, the new owner of music giant EMI has warned" |BusinessWeek | The Big Record Labels' Not-So-Big Future |
YahooNews | Don Was offers free music via Web series |
Yahoo News | Free Music Site Attracts Wrath of Industry | "The cofounder of a Web site that offers free streamed music from top artists said he's determined to operate his service legally despite menacing overtures from Universal Music Group" - Deezer.com |
Wired | Giving away records for free packs stadiums for your concerts. Prince shows the industry what music's all about. |
Shoutcast | Free MP3s from Over 900 SXSW Festival Bands Available |
Bit Torrent | BitTorrent Inc. Introduces Ad-Supported Downloads | ""BitTorrent Inc. is experimenting with alternatives to paid downloads on their Entertainment Network, and is now experimenting with advertising supported downloads" |
TimesOnline, UK | The day the music industry died | "There is no money in recorded music any more, that’s why bands are now giving it away" |
Off the record' | The market for CDs has collapsed, and not even the rise of legal downloading can offset the damage to record companies. |
The Register | Your song's in the cloud | Mercora looks to the skies
NY Times | New Weapon in Web War Over Piracy | Content-recognition software could address a major entertainment industry concern | songs and videos being posted on the Web without permission.
ksoftware.net | PandoraBrowse - Gets Music Out of Your Way
ZDnet | Microsoft fights "music of mass destruction"
Wired | Bram Cohen on BitTorrent's Future | Rumor has it he's leaving the company he co-founded -- just as BitTorrent lands big distribution deals with Hollywood. Can the rumors about Bram Cohen be true? What's in store for online file-sharing? Michael Calore snags an exclusive interview
Techdirt | DRM Crackers Make Yahoo And Napster's Music Services All The More Useful
Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime | SlashDot.org
FT.com | Universal Music, the world’s largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer’s popular iTunes music store.
Gigasize is new on the block, but compared to sites like Rapidshare and Megaupload, it is light years ahead. Without signing up, you can host files up to 1 gigabyte, or sign up to host huge 1.5 gigabyte files. Could sites like this kill P2P networks?
Napster founder commerce enables unprotected MP3s on MySpace / ZDnet Blogs
Digital Music: Rent Or Own? / InformationWeek
Mi2N | Baugh Entertainment Announces The Label's First Digital Downloads
ZDnet | Universal Music hopes better jewel cases will bolster CD sales?
Digg | Comparison of Legal Music Downloads | "TechCrunch compares iTunes and its competitors." |
MagPortal | My Digital Domain | I'm looking forward to being able to move music and video throughout my house wirelessly.
MagPortal | Now Showing on Small Screens | Technology is poised to change TV and movies in the same way as online music stores and digital music players have rewritten the rules for music distribution.
Digg | YOU can help stop the RIAA. | Take a Stand Against the Madness. Sign the EFF's petition to congress in protest of the RIAA bullying customers. They only need another 20,000 signatures.
Hey, Hey, It's Michael Nesmith | The Monkees catapulted him to stardom, but he's come a long way, baby. The Grammy-winning film producer and musician who invented MTV talks about digital music, MySpace and corporate media. | Wired News interview by Jason Silverman.
ArsTechnica | Napster now offering free music again | In a bid to bolster the image of its music subscription service and lure new subscribers, Napster is returning to the days of yore by offering free music. But as you might expect, there's a catch.
MagPortal | Fast Talk: Sounds of the Future | Digital music is a many-splendored thing - and it's more than just the iPod. Everyone from major labels to individual artists is experimenting. What's next - and why is Madonna sure to be a part of it?
MagPortal | Tuning In? | The used-digital-music market could be fertile ground for pioneering entrepreneurs.
Euclid Discoveries has announced they have the technology to reach video compression rates at 460% over MPEG-4, with the hardware & software available now. With this they can reduce a 23mb 30fps video down to 1519bytes. Awesome! | From Digg |
TechCrunch | Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2
Digg | Podcast study shows current and future trends |
MagPortal | Music's Mixed Messages | Digital downloading of music - the legal way -- continues to gain momentum. The rapidly growing market for digital music underlines why so many companies are eyeing Apple's success and hoping to get their piece of the market.
Most Expensive.net | MP3 Player
Digg | Audiri | Stopping the RIAA by putting music distribution back in the artists hands | Find Music by Genre | Musicians often make less than 5% off of CD sales, a new site is helping musicians sell their music in a setup similar to iTunes without looking 95%. The site is also a great resource for free music and music videos. The best part is it costs the artist nothing to sign up
Digg | 15,000+ songs & music videos free | A new site is letting smaller bands actually get their music out there. (200MB's worth at least) The powerful search function lets you find music you have never heard that fits your taste and is actually good. The amount of music on the site has gone up by 150% in the last month.
Digg | XM Speaks to Artists in the Fight Against the RIAA | Dear Artist: With the recent noise and confusion around ongoing negotiations between XM and the recording industry, we feel that it's important to speak to you directly at this time|
SlashDot | Online Music Brings New Life To Old Music |
Wall Street Journal | Wall St. Journal Smokes the MPAA in Interview, Says they Stifle Innovation! | "I have not been asking for media free of charge. I have been asking for it free of usage and interoperability restrictions that go beyond copyright. I support a market in which creators are compensated for their works, but not one in which a creative industry can monopolize cultural reference and the technology around its works."
WashingtonPost | Your Privacy Under Siege | The government wants Internet firms to store records about you so that it can have them if necessary for an investigation. Should you worry?|
Mi2N | Content Owners Must Harness Power Of Peer-to-Peer | P2P Investment Will Support Social Stickiness And Improved Business Performance
Wired | Swap CDs and Pay Musicians | In a move that is certain to stoke controversy with music promoters, the founder of the Silicon Valley startup said la la will circumvent traditional copyright and royalty payment systems to compensate identifiable working musicians. |
PC Magazine | Starbucks Pours New Cup Of Digital Music
WashingtonPost | Viral video sharing is new headache for music biz | As the recording industry tries to block file trading of songs across peer-to-peer networks, blogs and other viral distribution channels, the major labels suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos.
Asahi Shimbun, Japan | Music industry dances to different tune with online downloading
Musicdish | Retail Music Industry Battles Extinction
Britain's Idea to Rock Out | Wired | The first vending machines to sell music downloads will be introduced in London next month as Britons continue to turn their backs on traditional methods of buying singles. |
Mi2N | Gracenote And Sony Ericsson Partner To Provide Mobile Music Identification On Global Line Of Walkman Phones | allowing consumers to identify music when they hear it and opening direct commerce opportunities to carriers
Mi2N | Record Labels Break Compacts With Consumers, Congress And Courts | Suit Against XM Trashes Labels' AHRA And Grokster Assurances
Orbitcast | The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Radio Bill | That didn't take long. Already the big music labels are going after the next-generation XM2go devices. This time, the debate took place in front of the US Senate over the latest onslaught of anti-satellite radio legislature: The Perform Act.
Shazam Launches Ultimate Music Discovery Engine | Shazam – already known and loved for its mobile music recognition service – is today launching the world's largest and most comprehensive music discovery engine. |
Wall Street Journal | Music's New Gatekeeper: iTunes Staffers | "From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. The decisions by the small group of Silicon Valley and music-industry veterans running iTunes can help put an unknown band on the map, adding millions of dollars in sales, while relegating others to the obscurity of the site's virtual back bins"
Mi2N | MusicIP Launches World's Largest Music Relationship Engine | Shakes Up Digital Music Industry With Consumer, Musician And Enterprise Offerings
Cnn | Music companies bank on digital vending machines |
Mi2N | The Weed Files Announces Its Free Artist Area | With The Launch Of Its Artist Area Featuring Unlimited Uploads And Free Lifetime Hosting, The Weed Files Provides Virtually Costless Do-it-yourself Online Music Distribution. Focus. I
Musicdish | Are CDs Becoming Obsolete?: | DVD-Audio Is Here, But Will It Last? |
NewComputerNews | Musica(tm) - Wireless Music Center | Olive(r) introduces Musica(tm) - 40,000 songs throughout your home | Designed for the audiophile, the Musica(tm) incorporates the finest in audio technology |
Wired | The Super Network | Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe. |
Mi2N | How Do 3 Million Independent Artists Reach 80 Million Music Lovers? Through Their Fans | MusicDish Network Artist Yohany Uses P2P Street Team File Sharing Software To Capture Free Publicity And CD Sales |
Mi2N | Free CD Offer From Award Winning Child Recording Artist David Jack | Parents, kids and teachers should access this fun, fully-interactive music-packed site at www.davidjack.com |
MusicDish | Peter Spero Productions Announces New Computer Music Sharing Subscription Service |
MusicDish | Trakheadz.com Introduces New Methods For Digital Distribution | Bringing Artists' Music Directly To The Club And Radio DJs |
BusinessWire | Clear Channel Radio today revealed broad momentum for its programs supporting new and emerging music artists |
NewYorkTimes | eMusic is launching a revamped music download service that carries only music from independent labels.
Mi2N | Stream And Sell Your MP3s From Your Website | With MP3s Becoming More And More Popular, Many |
Sample the Future | By Thomas Goetz | Wired | Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century.
WashingtonPost | Musicians Sing Different Tune on File Sharing | By Cynthia L. Webb |
Mi2N | UNIQUE WEBSITE HELPS UNSIGNED SONGWRITERS & COMPOSERS PROFIT FROM THEIR MUSIC WITHOUT GIVING AWAY THEIR COPYRIGHT | Innovative Web-based Service Helps Unsigned Songwriters, Bands & Composers Generate Income From Their Work Without Giving Away Their Rights Or Future Earnings. |
Music Magic Found in the Shuffle | By Leander Kahney | Wired | " Napster revolutionized music distribution, but massive libraries of digital music and capacious players like the iPod are upending listening habits through something very simple but profound: random shuffle. " |
PRweb | Live365 licenses with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (“ASCAP”),
New Scientist Tech | Music fingerprinting system is fastest yet | It can identify songs from a database of 17 million songs in under 1 second, say its creators – but music fans may want more than speed | Kurt Kleiner
Seeking Alpha, NY | Is It Time For Apple and Microsoft to Buy Music Labels? |
Telegraph.co.uk, UK | CBS pays $280m for music site Last.fm | The site is based on so-called "Audioscrobbler" software, which was developed by Richard Jones as a computer science project |
DVD-Recordable | Free Music Downloads | The next user to download a song from a peer-to-peer file-sharing service like LimeWire could be in for a surprise. Not a recording industry lawsuit, but a pop-up asking him to look at an ad - either text or video - in return for a free and legal copy of the music.
Wikipedia | "The USB drive was simply a mechanism of leaking the music and data we wanted out there." |
Wall Street Journal | Music's New Gatekeeper: iTunes Staffers | "From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. The decisions by the small group of Silicon Valley and music-industry veterans running iTunes can help put an unknown band on the map, adding millions of dollars in sales, while relegating others to the obscurity of the site's virtual back bins"
In 2010, Half Of All Digital Content Will Be Delivered To Mobile Devices | Mi2N |
Through a Business Scenarios study, CISAC looks to adapt licensing practices in anticipation of
market shiftsLearn to Play the Guitar at Your Local Newsstand | NY Times - "Newsstand sales of Guitar World magazine soared after the publisher started putting instructional DVDs on the racks with the magazine."
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BBC: One Music
Want to take your music further? In 'How to...' we've brought together over 100 in-depth guides and features packed full of help and advice!
Full Fat Guides - Big and easy guides for newcomers to the music industry | Getting signed | Who does what in the music industry? | Money in music - getting paid | CD price - where the money goes |
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Starting Out | Find people to work with | Form a dance group | Professional singing auditions | Improve your vocals | Song writing basics | Improve your practising skills | Why playing live is important | Get first gigs | Develop your stage prescence | Choosing a band name | Choose tracks for a demo | Get ready to approach record labels | Get training from The Prince's Trust (Remember, this BBC) | Download music |
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Recording | Choose tracks for a demo | Home recording – the basics | Home recording – the equipment | Home recording - buying a mixer | Choose music software | Make a vocal demo | Find a recording studio | Get ready to go into the studio | Make the most of a session | Make the most of the mix | Mastering | Find a producer | Clear Samples |
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Performing Live | Why playing live is important | Get Live Gigs | Rehearse | Get Ready For A Gig | Soundcheck | Make the best of a gig | Play London | Put on a showcase gig | Play gigs nationally | Publicise your gigs | Set up a gig night | Buy a PA |
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DJing | Get DJ kit and technology | Make a good mix tape | Get your first DJ gigs | Get work in city bars | Get work in city clubs | Mix and scratch workshop | Start out as a VJ | Start your own night |
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VJing | Starting Out | Hardware and software | Performing live | DJing: 7 guides to get you started |
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Digital Audio | Guide to Downloading | Guide to Podcasting | Make a website | Essentials for your website | Distribute your music online | Use MP3 sites |
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Music Distribution | Produce small numbers of CDs | Mass Produce CDs | Press Vinyl | Use distributors for DIY releases | Use distributors for a record label | Send Out Demos | Promote your releases | Start A Label | Use MP3 websites | Essentials for your website | Make a website | Promote your website online | Distribute your music online | Write TV/Film music | Work as a TV/Film composer |
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Music Promotion | Control your image | Use a mailing list | Put together a press pack | Send out demos | Approach the media | Promote live gigs | Promote your releases | Hire professional PR companies |
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Management | Work to support yourself | Sign On | Apply for grants | Work as a session musician | PRS | PPL | MCPS for people releasing their own material | MCPS for label owners | MCPS for people signed to a label | Other collection agencies | Approaching publishing companies | Types of publishing agreements | Publishing agreement main terms | Find a manager | Start out as a manager | Management agreement main terms | Production deals | Production agreement main terms |
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Industry Jobs | A & R | Artist Manager | Tour Manager | Music Journalist | Studio Engineer | PR - Promotion |
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Message Boards | Rock, Indie & Punk | Dance | Experimental & Leftfield | Chart & Playlist | Making Music | One Life | Hip Hop | Drum n Bass | R & B | Desi Beats |
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BBC Virtual Sttudio | "Make your own music here. We've got two bits of kit that can have you making tracks and playing with sounds in minutes." | Sample Bank - Over 1,000 samples for you to download and use in your own music | Basics - Tips and ideas to get you going | Sequencer - Make your own tunes in our four track | Mixer - Find out what the effects on a mixing desk can do | Virtual Theremin - Turn your desktop into a Theremin with the help of BBC Science | Escapades - Be an Artist Manager, PR, Agent, or A&R | Hands On - Drumming experience | Musicians' Stories | Your Charts | Internet Radio | BBC Programmes | BBC Performing Groups | Discovering Music | Jazz Library | Music Matters | Words and Music | New Music | Classical | World Music | Radio 3: Music Games | Philharmonia Orchestra - The Sound Exchange - Free sample library of orchestra and single note samples |
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META Directory | Search the META Directory to find Venues, Music Business, Commerce, Record Companies, Publishers, Distributors, Organisations, Promoters, Colleges and Academics, Broadcast Media, Print Media, and Arts Management in your part of the UK. |
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MED Directory - An annually updated database of professional contemporary music courses in the UK. |
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Music Tank - Directory of businesses and organisations who offer support to music makers and companies. |
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Professional Bodies - The major organisations that provide help and advice. |
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Other BBC sites - BBC websites promoting music making on a national or local level. |
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Support sites - Sites which promote or help unsigned music makers. |
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Performing arts courses - Schools and colleges where you can learn performing arts. |
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Music Instrument Directory
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