The Indie Band Survival Guide: A fantastic, free, 101 pages collection of useful information for musicians - covers topics such as recording, copyright, major label contracts, commercial radio, promoting your music, band websites, distribution, filesharing and live shows.
Who is this for:
Although our main audience is other independent bands like ourselves, this Survival Guide is not intended for musicians only. We found as we wrote and shared drafts of this guide to our non-musician friends they, like us, found these topics engaging. For instance, they weren't aware of the truth of how commercial radio actually works (everything on is pay-for-play!) or the time and effort that is required to get your band noticed, not to mention the time and effort to write, rehearse, and record your music. And, of course, many found the full story behind file sharing interesting since that affects everyone who listens to music.