Musicians Cooler

10 resources that may help artists book more gigs: GigMasters (booking platform for artists and talent buyers) GigMaven (free and easy-to-use booking website for musicians; currently available in NY, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Austin, Phoenix and Ohio) Gigwish (influence venues, promoters and booking agents by enabling an artist’s fans and their [...]

Can People Contact You? The Gregory Brothers of “AutoTune News” have entered the chart at #89 with “Bed Intruder”. The debut chart position was almost entirely the result of 10,571 copies of the track downloaded from iTunes in just two days. The original news video has been watched 4 million times on YouTube. The thing [...]

Today we get a question from Jon Solitro who is trying to find popular cover songs. I explained that you can get a better result doing “popular cover songs” as it is looking for a phrase. Also don’t forget that there is an advance search for google where you can be much more specific. To [...]

Today I talk about getting exposure from youtube. This can be done by attaching your band to a viral video. For example the “Double Rainbow” video has 6,974,712 views as I put this together. It’s averaged 35,226 views per day. So the Gregory Brothers who like to “Auto Tune the News” made a song (catchy [...]

One band I was in made a nice chunk of change by finding products that were inexpensive to make, and then sold them for a small fee. In my case it was sunglasses that cost $1.00 to make and we sold for $2. We sold over 500 pairs one summer. I found a new product that fits this criteria

Our old friend George Hrab back again. George has been a huge fan of the show, and this is a ONE of a kind show. George is doing a marketing experiement by giving away – in its entirety – his new album TREBUCHET. We get to listen to every second of it. There are some [...]

Today I interview Chris Cox from Make Your Band Famous and he talks about the reason he started the site, his background, how he developed the program (a ton of information). The site talks about how music piracy can actually be a GOOD thing when you plan for it, and use the tools available to [...]

Today I talk about how a few “hit” email between my bass player lead to my band splitting up. I had invited a keyboard player to come practice with us, and he got upset. He sent an email without using the BCC option (which pissed me off). Here is the email I sent to him: [...]

While there are plenty of interesting names in music. For example: The buthole surfers The rolling stones Devo The Dead Milkman When you are looking into naming your band, there is more to think about than if it sounds cool. I was previously in a band called the Sugar Daddies (we thought we were cool [...]

Today I talk about “making a moment” which technically is a phrase I’ve heard Tom Jackson use (and from what I hear his DVDs are awesome). When you are on stage there will be times when the audience decides to have their own show. An example of this is at a Pearl Jam concert in [...]