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Facebook Hack Leaves Bands Without a Home

  • Posted February 7, 2019February 12, 2019
  • by Dad
Facebook Hack

February 2, 2019 — A Facebook hack of select users left artists without a home. Select user accounts were targeted that were owners of Facebook Business pages. Once the accounts were compromised, the hacker would accessed the business page, insert themselves as an admin, and remove all other admins. Few…Continue Reading

Spotify Block Feature: 3 Reasons why it benefits artists

  • Posted January 29, 2019February 7, 2019
  • by Dad
Spotify

Spotify recently issued an update that allows its users to block artists from automatically playing in playlists, charts, radio, or user’s personal library. The Spotify block feature or “Don’t play this artist” feature can be toggled on or off from each artist’s page. Once the artist is blocked Spotify will…Continue Reading

The Local Festival Dilemma, Should you play or not?

  • Posted January 22, 2019February 18, 2019
  • by Dad
Band Playing a local festival

A promoter contacts your band offering a chance to play a local festival they’re putting on. They state there’s going to be a bunch of awesome bands including some national acts, there will be a ton of people there, vendors, and all sorts of awesome activities. Sounds pretty good on…Continue Reading

Album vs EP: 7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Releasing Full Length Albums

  • Posted January 11, 2019February 18, 2019
  • by Dad
7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Releasing Full Length Albums

Picture yourself being in a new band. You release a demo but then and your bandmates decide to release full length albums going forward. You release the album and it gains plenty of exposure, so you go on tour to support it. After the album touring cycle now what? You…Continue Reading

Social media and retailers want artists to fail

  • Posted January 3, 2019February 8, 2019
  • by Dad
Musician crying

Harsh words right? Nobody wants to be told they will fail in anything let alone your dream. We already hear the typical “You know there’s no money in music right?” or the “What’s your back up plan?” spoken frequently by our family members but what if we’re now hearing this…Continue Reading

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