As a Manager, a lot of responsibility falls on you to help get your band out there. If you want your band to break, that band needs as much as exposure as possible. A lot of that exposure comes from touring. Putting together a proper touring plan for your band is key. But how do…

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – As founder of one of America’s foremost independent music distribution companies, Alternative Distribution Alliance, Andy Allen has nurtured the careers of artists like Better Than Ezra, The Arcade Fire, Liz Phair, Nirvana, and Tom Waits. Since founding ADA in the 1990s, Allen has managed to keep ADA true to…

The second in a series of monthly reports on top advertising networks that support illegal download sites was missing a notable name: Google. Whether or not this drop-off means anything has yet to be seen. The tech giant’s advertising network ranked second in the first Ad Network Piracy Report, which tracked the source of advertisements funding…

Once completed, the pending acquisition of the Sanctuary Records catalog will catapult BMG Rights Management into one of the industry’s top independent catalog labels. The Sanctuary catalog has about 170,000 songs, or about 16,000 albums, including recordings by Black Sabbath, the Kinks, Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Uriah Heap, according to a news release. But exactly…