Comments on: 100 Resources for DIY Musicians from Label 2.0

By: John Lowe

John Lowe — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:42:04 +0000

Hi, I am finding this blog very interesting.
Any Independent Artists reading this
should definitly check out Grind Stop http://www.grindstop.com
have really useful tools for promoting your music. that will make your music grind life so much easier.

By: wesbnkkmuzik

wesbnkkmuzik — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:53:36 +0000

The list is just great help to indie artist, thanks also for sharing

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By: Rand

Rand — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:55:38 +0000

Hey Ref, thanks for providing DIY resources, indie musicians need as much free help as possible. We at MusicNomad are a musicians advocate org that reviews and ranks thousands of resources to help indie musicians produce, sell and support their music. We give hundreds of tips and articles for them to explore and it’s all free for them. We also created a free tool called virtual band manager that gives the power to the DIY musician for getting quotes on band merch and cd duplication by entering one request for quote and it goes out to 10 plus companies to bid on it. Thanks, Rand http://www.musicnomad.com

By: Greg Rollett

Greg Rollett — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:59:55 +0000

Hey Eric, thanks for the link to Hey!Spread. Going to check it out now.

Brian – great point on the fact that some of these companies may go under. While all of these are great tools and sites, they should be extensions of your home base (youtband.com). You should own your own mailing list, have a dedicated hosting company with a strong reputation and use that to fuel your long term growth.

Thanks for the comments on the report, it was fun making it and glad to include Create Deconstruction in there, as Refe is a grat writer with some dope insight!

By: James

James — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:54:44 +0000

Some good resources in there. Thanks for sharing.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:33:28 +0000

Posterous also does a fantastic job of video syndication to other social media sites. Very quick and easy, and all done via email.

This list is a fantastic resource though that every indie artist should pay attention to…

Cheers!
Brian

Thorny Bleeder Records
http://www.thornybleeder.com

By: refe

refe — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:49:59 +0000

Hey Brian thanks for commenting, and thanks for the link. That is a huge list – pretty cool to see it all in one place.

With regard to companies going under, your right. That’s why you should never rely exclusively on third party services. Have your own domain and your own hard drive and your own system for backing everything up.

Companies go under all the time, sometimes gracefully and sometimes not so gracefully. SnoCap is a perfect example of the latter – they still owes hundreds of artists money.

On the other hand, these resources can be useful components in your strategy right now. You need to be putting out videos, and you need a way to manage them. You need to play gigs so you need a way for people to book you online. Some of these tools can make your life much easier.