Sometimes, when you're starting an indie label, unsigned musicians will be willing to come on board before you find distribution. That is your best case scenario. If you can't get this lined up, there's not much you can do but try to juggle a little bit and work on getting soft com...
Music producers and record labels also receive a payout from Spotify per stream. Other streaming platforms offer different pay rates to musicians as well. Apple Music, for instance, reports that it pays an average of $0.01 per stream. How Much Do Touring Musicians Make? The earning pote...
The time of day/night you can expect to find a Mix Engineer at work will depend on deadlines, but since the work is mostly solitary, an Engineer can make his or her own schedule. This means the work schedule is anything but a 9-5. “I do a lot of my critical mixing early in the...
This is very much a process and one if you think about differently, can really help you to become a better musician and producer. This isn’t a case of just having a bio, a press shot and a few tracks, but about how you can think about record labels with a view to using this kno...
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Eventually - after much guilt and a missed deadline or two - I reach a breaking point. I sit down and spend a few hours braindumping all of my open tasks into my task manager, assigning and rescheduling dates, adding all my context labels like a good GTDer. ...
TikTok has exploded in popularity. But how much do TikTokers really make? Learn more about the top-earning TikTok creators and how they get paid. TikTok has taken the world by storm. With more than 100 million active users in the U.S. alone, TikTok has also become a hot new way to ...
The rest of the world is much bigger than Europe – both in terms of physical size and population and in terms of history and cultural heritage. If we do not bring the ‘rest’ in, our theories will fall short and lack explanatory power. Let’s talk about your book The End of ...
Side-Line’s independent journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we want to push the artists we like and who are equally fighting to survive. If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more...