As an up and coming hip hop musician you need to be surprisingly careful. You are more open to attack than most simply because of the music industry being in the shape it is. The last thing you want is to have all your hard work disintegrated because you used hip hop beats, sound effects [...]
Hip hop music has become quite the phenomenon in the music business. we see rappers on TV all the time. Hip hop artists such as: Ne-Yo, Kanye West, Fifty Cent, and Lil Wayne have become a part of our country’s music culture.
Why do we listen to hip hop music? we listen to this kind of [...]
If you’re a significant hip hop music fan and need to find a place where you might catch up on all the latest hip hop action, then you want to check World Star Hip Hop. This website is designed with hip hop audiences in mind and offers them music videos and entertainment that is geared [...]
Become a Boundary Artist – Gaining More Respect For Your Artist Time
Setting time boundaries is an vital tool for an artist to learn to use.
Paula Eder of ” Finding Time Tips and E-zine” states, “If you cannot say no, can be you don’t know where your boundaries are”.
Community service and donations are often requested from [...]
To most performers, the enduring image of an artist manager is a caricature of a heavy-set, unkempt slob of a man, stuffed into a 2-sizes-too-small, off-the-rack department seller suit, chomping on a cheap smelly cigar while sliding a gr easy hand unceremoniously into the back pocket of a starving artist. Assuredly, somewhere in the vast [...]
Music publicity success comes down to knowing how to work with music editors in your desired newspaper or magazine. No matter how wonderful your songs are, or how electric your live show is, you will not get publicity for your music unless you know how to give a music editor what he or she needs [...]
1. The Definition of Publicity – 1st, we are going to start out with the eminently basic s–some definitions of what publicity is exactly. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Publicity – “An act or device designed to attract public interest; specifically : information with news value issued as a means of gaining public attention or help. [...]
How does an performer move forward in the music business without the support of business professionals backing their career? How does an performer get noticed by the business professionals and get them to promote the performer’s music? Whether your objective is to have a individual manager, a booking agent, a publicist or be signed to [...]
Concert promoters could readily be thought of as major get together planners. Every detail of the performance has to go off in the absence of a hitch and that responsibility lies solely with the promoter. Concert promotion is a demanding career that requires meaningful attention to detail. In order to be an effective and successful [...]
MySpace.com Music has brought a new music phenomenon to the comfort of our own homes. Never have so many performers become so popular so immediately, and it is happening everyday. The convenience of MySpace.com Music has given music performers a new way to release their recordings to the world. Now performers do not have to [...]