The Art Farm has monthly music lab slots up for grabs, giving international bands the opportunity to launch themselves in Europe. With 24 hour access to rehearsal studios, live gigs on location and promotional footage of all performances.

http://www.theartfarm.info/ML/MusicLab_Competition.html

COMPETITION IS OPEN TO BANDS AND SOLO ARTISTS.

The south of France is a well known destination for bands to escape the outside world, tap into that magic inside and produce something amazing. When the r… Continue

Rock Star Texting is a pretty simple and easy way to build a fan base using text messages. Bands like U2, Beyonce, and Gwen Stefani have been using this same technology.

Text messages have a 90% read rate, emails are only 8%.

If you’re not keeping in touch with your fans using text messages, the majority of them never find out about your next gig or music release.

RockStarTexting.com makes it easy for you to grow your mobile fanbase and send text messages to your fans.

Here is how it works:… Continue

Mike King

In a perfect world, radio stations across the country would play songs based simply on the merits of the songs themselves. In a perfect world, a major radio station in a major market could be solicited in the same fashion as a publicist solicits Rolling Stone, for example: by sending a package, making a follow-up call, and if the “deciders” (in the case of radio, the program directors) like what they hear, they would promote the record by playing it on air. Unfortunately this is not h… Continue

Mike King

In addition to the music on your CD or digital file, there is certain information that travels with your music to identify your song, and provide a way to keep track of how many copies of your track or album have sold. This information is known as metadata. One of the most important pieces of metadata is your ISRC code.

An ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is a unique 12-character alphanumeric “digital fingerprint” that stays with an individual recorded track forever, rega… Continue

Debbie Cavalier | Mike King

From Edison’s invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century, the field recordings of Alan Lomax in the 1940s, to the multi-million dollar productions of some of the biggest acts of the late '80s and '90s, today’s technology has evolved to the place where anyone with an interest in producing music can now create professional-sounding recordings at home at a fraction of the cost that a professional studio would charge.

Remember, it’s not just aspiring professio… Continue