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Matt Stevens: Being Real Delivers Real Fans

April 29, 2010

Today we talk with Matt Steven who has steadily built up an audience.   Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as [...]

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Smiles Everyone Smiles!

January 11, 2010

You might remember Fantasy Island. Every week you would hear “Smiles everyone smiles.” Well I started the new year with Buddy Guy at the House of Blues in Cleveland (front row). Buddy is 72 years old (ish) and has won 5 grammys, and is in the rock and roll hall of fame. He has inspired [...]

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Painting a Clear Picture

December 22, 2009

When it comes to starting a band, you need to have a clear picture for those people you are recruiting. With this in mind, you should be able to explain the style of music you want to play. You should have at leas t 10 songs selected that you want to play. This way people [...]

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Thinking Outside the Box

November 26, 2009

It’s Thanksgiving and people are now in the mindset to buy stuff. People call tomorrow “Black Friday” and its one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Stores have crazy sales, and people line up at 3 in the morning to get in. It’s crazy. You can do the same thing. I wrote about [...]

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Are We having Fun Yet?

November 23, 2009

I’ve mentioned in the past, that one of the things you should be trying to do at a gig is to have fun. After all, who doesn’t like fun? There are people who field questions from the crowd. I was in a band that would grab women out of the audience to sing backup on [...]

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Is Your Band Ready For Black Friday?

November 19, 2009

Black Friday is the day after Thanks giving (November 27th). Stores have insane sales, open their doors in the wee hours of the morning, resulting with people lining up and going crazy. Why should your band miss out? You can participate as well. Send an email out to your fans stating that if they buy [...]

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Interactive Concerts Breed Intimacy

November 2, 2009

This is show 255 of the Musicians Cooler and originates at www.musicianscooler.com Today we got an email from Scott of the band “megaphone” and he talk about how he has created a new sites for band looking to get their music into the Rock Band Video game. You can find it at www.rockbandyourrockband.com Scott said, [...]

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Focus on Your Strengths

October 25, 2009

I recently update a club’s website (www.northsideclub.com) after they came under new management. Now I did the old version of their website (you can see this on the from page of marketingmusician.com) but it was literally one of the first sites I ever did, and it looked like it. The owner was very cheap and [...]

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The End of the Starving Artist

August 25, 2009

Today we have a chat with Miata Edoga the President of Abundance Bound a great website that teaches artist how to manage their money. It’s got great free resources, as well as many different packages and best of all Payment plans to make them all affordable. Unlike other “financial gurus” who provide a “one size [...]

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Building the Buzz

January 12, 2009

This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com Are You Releasing a CD  in 2009? Do you know what the following bands have in common? Heaven and Hell Ace Frehley U2 Prince They are all releasing CDs in 2009, and they alerted the media in late 2008. By letting your fans know you are working on a CD [...]

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