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Brian Slagel from Metal Blade Records, Advice for Bands Looking to Get Signed

by Michael Brandvold | Feb 16, 2018 | Audio, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

Brian Slagel of Metal Blade Records Discusses the Importance of Streaming This week we are joined by Brian Slagel, CEO of Metal Blade Records. Brian shares his thoughts on the importance of social media and how important is social media when considering a band for a...

What Symphonic Distribution Can Do To Help Your Career

by Michael Brandvold | Feb 9, 2018 | Audio, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

What Does Your Music Distributor Do For You? This week Janette Berrios, Director of Marketing from Symphonic Distribution talks about indie distribution and artist services like playlist pitching, sync licensing, youtube and educating indie artists. Visit Hypebot for...

What is Your Story? Releasing a New Album is NOT a Story! The Ins and Outs of Biographies, Press Releases and Press Kits

by Michael Brandvold | Feb 2, 2018 | Audio, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

What is Your Story? Releasing a New Album is NOT a Story! This week we discuss with Wade Sutton the importance of your biography, press releases and a press kit. What should and shouldn’t be part of each one. Wade Sutton is the founder of Rocket to the Stars, an...

Darrin Pfeiffer from Goldfinger Talks About The Role of a Manager

by Michael Brandvold | Jan 19, 2018 | Audio, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

What Is The Role of a Band Manager? We speak with Darrin Pfeiffer, manager of country recording artist Ryan Sims. Darrin is a musician, record producer, band manager and radio personality (Dangerous Darrin show). He has played drums in the pop punk bands Goldfinger,...

Using SubmitHub to Submit Your Music to Blogs, Labels & Playlists

by Michael Brandvold | Jan 12, 2018 | Audio, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

How to Submit Your Own Music to Blogs and Playlists For the first episode of 2018 we are joined by Jason Grishkoff from SubmitHub.com. Jason shares with us how SubmitHub was born out of a need for managing submission to his own music blog, Indie Shuffle. We discuss...

Intelligent URLs and landing pages for your release using Linkfire

by Michael Brandvold | Dec 22, 2017 | Audio, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Videos

Why You Need a Landing Page for Your Next Release Linkfire co-founder Jeppe Faurfelt discusses intelligent URLs and landing pages for your release. For more information visit https://linkfire.com Visit Hypebot for music business news and insights. www.Hypebot.com If...