| A&R | Advice | Blogs |
| Essential | Listener Oriented | Mainstream |
| Marketing - Promotion | Provides Band Web Pages | Resources |
| Selling Music | Web Examples-Ivory Drive | Web Examples-Other Artists |
| Website Building |
A&R
If you are a musician or band interested in booking gigs or a music promoter booking bands then join Sonicbids. Sonicbids is your online destination for booking gigs or booking bands. Provides excellent EPK for small charge. Many gigs and contests take submissions exclusively through Sonic Bids. |
Get your music to the right people with TAXI: The Independent A&R Vehicle that connects unsigned artists, bands and songwriters with major record labels, publishers, and film & TV music supervisors. Requires annual fee - you submit songs, they evaluate them and sometimes forward them to |
Advice
Passive Promotion focuses on "set it and forget it" methods of music promotion, along with a few tips on mixing, brought to you by a mastering engineer and recording artist. |
Blogs
Passive Promotion focuses on "set it and forget it" methods of music promotion, along with a few tips on mixing, brought to you by a mastering engineer and recording artist. |
MP3 & music blog aggregator - the best songs and blog posts of music on the web - search and discover something new. |
 The Music Missionary -
Opinions and commentsReviews, interviews, news and opinion on music and media issues. |
Essential
Like it or not, Facebook has become an essential website for indie artist presence. |
See what’s happening on MySpace! Find friends & classmates, meet new people, listen to free music & build playlists, share photos, watch videos, start a blog, read celebrity news, get cool apps, free IM & more… MySpace is an essential website for Indie Artists - pretty much every musical group has a MySpace page - although it has been losing favor. |
If you are a musician or band interested in booking gigs or a music promoter booking bands then join Sonicbids. Sonicbids is your online destination for booking gigs or booking bands. Provides excellent EPK for small charge. Many gigs and contests take submissions exclusively through Sonic Bids. |
Listener Oriented
iLike is a leading social music service that provides the most popular music app across social networks. With over 50 million users, iLike helps you share music recommendations, playlists, and get personalized concert alerts. |
Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too. |
Find your new favorite song in less than five minutes a day. thesixtyone tracks the web's musical obsessions in real time, delivering the best to your doorstep. - Used to be a social listening site, but now is more like a streaming radio station. |
Gain more exposure online with an Uvumi artist profile. Uvumi.com helps you get your name out there by giving you a clean and useful social profile that is highly optimized for search engine indexes. This means your Uvumi profile is more likely to show up in the top results when people search for you on Google, Bing, or other search engines. The more content you post (blogs, pictures, events, songs, playlists, etc) the more likely people are to find your profile when they are searching online. -*- Provides artist profile and EPK. |
Mainstream
Like it or not, Facebook has become an essential website for indie artist presence. |
See what’s happening on MySpace! Find friends & classmates, meet new people, listen to free music & build playlists, share photos, watch videos, start a blog, read celebrity news, get cool apps, free IM & more… MySpace is an essential website for Indie Artists - pretty much every musical group has a MySpace page - although it has been losing favor. |
Marketing - Promotion
Using our free account, our artists have made 3,458,152 show, news, or blog updates across MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and many more! That's given them more time to write music, meet fans, and be creative. Which is why they're musicians, right? |
Free Music Downloads, MP3 Music, Music Videos, Music Lyrics and Music CD's at discount prices - Artist Direct Network! Seems pretty mainsteam music - not very indie oriented, but included here to be comprehensive. |
Bandloop is simple and powerful - Add bands to your loop, then we alert you to their local shows and new messages. The more bands you add, the better it works! Search for your local favorites - we track hundreds of thousands of bands across the giant ball called Earth. |
Get local live music and concert recommendations for your town. View any artist's tour dates and buy tickets from the cheapest ticket seller. |
Find local events in your town or across the world on Eventful. We've put together the most popular concerts, festivals, kids events, sports events, and more. |
FanBridge makes managing email lists, mobile lists, and social networks fun, easy and effective. Basic free mailing list - pay for more features and capacity. |
JamBase exists to connect music fans everywhere with the music they love. While fulfilling this promise, we seek to: * Provide the most complete, accurate and timely concert information available anywhere, and continue making it better * Recognize and respect the core values of our musical community, which we are a reflection of * Explore and experience the greatest music on earth, and share our discoveries with you * Expose music of true substance and character, and promote it everywhere JamBase is deeply committed to supporting and growing the live music community. We believe live music changes the world and are dedicated to channeling its power into positive social and environmental action. |
MyMusicSite.com helps you the independent artist sell and promote your own music. You can sell individual songs, albums or even have your fans, friends and family be able to instantly create ringtones for your original music. The next time your phone rings...have it be your song that is heard! MyMusicSite.com also offers you the ability to shop for independent music and discover new and hidden talent. |
Lots of promotion tools for musicians - EPKs, music hosting, calendar, mailing list, widgets to post on MySpace, Facebook, and your own web site. |
We test a collection of the soundbites from various artists in one test. You will receive a test report with the ratings and comments from the Track Testers. If the rating of the soundbite is high enough you will be offered a separate test of the full track. |
