Industry News and Ideas

So You Want to Book Better Shows

Venue Managers and promoters are constantly challenging themselves to book better shows.  Here’s how we can help. Step 1:  Sign Up For MusicIDB.com Our team knows that it takes an enormous amount of time to book a show.  Our surveys of local venue owners and promoters indicate about 10 hours…

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The Value Proposition

You’ve got a bunch of sweet tracks recorded.  You can’t wait for the world to hear ‘em.  What’re you going to do to make people notice?  Well, obviously you’re going to make a super-expensive video, because you’ve heard that YouTube is where people are finding cool music these days.  And…

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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 as welll, The Romano Project, Blanket Party and a yet…

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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 played last week went nuts, they loved it. And the…

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