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How Do I Get a Music Promoter License in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts General Law requires licenses for various forms of entertainment and promotion.  If you’re looking for a music promoter license, then you’re in luck.  This article explains the confusing terminology in the law and will help you to decide if

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Have music industry sales come full circle?

In my opinion, the music industry record sales have come full circle since the boom of recorded music in the 1950s. Record sales have gone from writing that one popular single, to creating a full length album, back to the

Acton Jazz Cafe answers the "where to find jazz" question for Lowell, MA.

Acton Jazz Cafe: Where to Find Jazz

In my continuing quest for where to find jazz, I spent a little more time on Google.  This time I saw Acton Jazz Cafe in the listings and asked folks at MusicIDB about it.  They said it was great, so

Digital Music Faves- from MediaMonkey to Spotify

Digital Music – From MediaMonkey to Spotify

I mostly just wanted to give a shout-out to my favorite mp3 player : MediaMonkey. It’s unbelievable how great a job those guys have done building an mp3 player.   Does exactly what I want it to do, and was

Lean Startup Fuse is Lit at MusicIDB

The people at MusicIDB.com are delighted to be participating in this year’s Lean Startup Challenge Boston 2013. We’ve been working since November of last year, but this past week shows how the Lean Startup Challenge is helping us kick it

An Interview with DJ Icculus

Tim Icculus Dunning, aka DJ Icculus, is an alto Saxophone player and a DJ whose turntable skills have landed him several festival spots in the last few years. He is from Lawrence MA and currently is involved with 3 bands

Welcome to Our Blog

A quick blog introduction from two of MusicIDB’s Co-Founders – Johanna Lovejoy & Dan Shedd

Booking Your First Gig

The Groundwork So you got together with a couple of your friends in the garage with some used instruments and started making noise. Eventually that noise morphed into songs, and pretty damn good ones at that! The house party you

Why MusicIDB.com was Created

I’ll tell you a little about my past and how MusicIDB.com (originally AristBomb.com) came to be. 2004 – Despite everyone at the New England Institute of Art promising that it’s almost impossible that you would end up working on anything interesting or