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Fans fuel The Floe
It would be easy to look at a band like us, The Floe, and believe that we had it all sorted. There’s the nice looking website, the slick-sounding new album, the distribution deal and the experienced...
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DIY artist relies on fans for a ‘middle-class’ living
A former computer programmer, Jonathan Coulton, is one of the artists successfully implementing the Direct to Fan music model online. During the course of 2006, he wrote and recorded a song every...
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US musicians see innovations in DIY and DTF tools
There are a number of services in the US that are acting as partners to artists who prefer Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and and Direct-To-Fan (DTF) models. Some of these companies and entrepreneurial...
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New services aim to empower artists
BandCentral has launched, aiming to provide bands, managers and labels with an easily manageable online toolset. The service is designed to centralise processes such as mailing databases,...
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Quality puts artists ahead of the pack, say merch men
It is important to this campaign that we get opinions from different areas of the the music world, so we asked Neil Cocker, of merchandising service Dizzyjam, the question: “Have you noticed bands...
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Tunited: UK based independent music community platform
Tunited is a UK based music platform, dreamed up by Midge Ure. Bringing together various elements of services like Drowned in Sound, Bandcentral and MySpace, the site will be part shop, part social...
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Artists that promote themselves online face stiff competition
We received a message of support from a musician who only promotes his music online. In our reply, we asked him the question: “Does the Internet make it easier for an unsigned artist to develop their...
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Pay-to-promote schemes prey on aspiring amateurs
Although ultimately immeasurable, there are several million music artists worldwide with an online presence, each competing for attention. As many of those artists will know, there is a growing...
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3 Online Tools for DIY Musicians
Here are three tools that can help encourage fan engagement, manage your music online and help you easily promote your band on Facebook. In no particular order of preference: Bandcamp BandCamp is one...
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Pledge Music: your music and “sharing the ability to share”
We invited Benji Rogers, founder of Pledge Music, to share some advice for musicians looking to promote their music DIY style online. Benji: All day long my inbox, my twitter feed & my facebook...
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