There is a veritable minefield of sites awaiting prospective people looking for MP3 downloads. Many are illegal, many are a mix of legal and illegal, but some ARE wholly legal. They have free and legal MP3 files for download to anyone who wants them. The quality of the music at such sites is debatable. I ...
Now there are more avenues than ever to sell your music the Independent route and the digital world, but if you have a solid band put together with a major following and your goal is to be signed by the likes of Elektra, Geffen, or Columbia you have a tremendous corporate structure and a lot ...
To cope with an ever changing business climate, many independent record labels have made radical changes over the last two decades in how they conduct business. For new artist signings and initial recordings, most indie labels today focus on marketing over recording and producing music. Fifteen years ago most labels operated under the same premise: ...
Producer Producers mostly work with recording acts and record labels to produce records. They also work with composers and produce for film, TV and other types of multimedia. The producer controls every detail of the recording process including hiring musicians and engineers, monitoring the recording budget. A producer sometimes helps the artist choose songs to ...
A few years ago, Nokia was the prime leader in the mobile music market with its unique feature then of monophonic ringtones. Few years later came the trend of polyphonic ringtones which beat monophonic ringtones. Today, the realtones has emerged into the market, beating both the former ones. Realtones are nothing but MP3 songs or ...
“Porch To DA Public” by Ali Vegas opens with musical orchestration to make any symphony proud. Produced by Sha Money XL and featuring the Rezza Brothers (Obie Trice), the piece is a solid homage to the days of the hip hop griot — much different than than the standard fare served in the genre today. ...
The music business can be a brutal business. There are many decisions an artist must make to enable them to go out and have fun creating their music and getting it out to the fans. An artist can choose between major and independent record labels. The first thing an artist must do is to choose ...
Talent scouts have always played an integral role in the record business. Without talented artists, there is no record business. Recognizing and finding talent is a bit of an art form in itself. Alan Lomax and John Hammond are two important role models in this regard. Although, their names may not be so well known ...