The DIY Music Manual

Nov 18, 2024 9:41 PM

Author:Randy Chertkow,Jason Feehan

How do I get my music played on the radio? Do I really need my own website - can't I just use MySpace? How do I copyright and license my songs? The DIY Music Manual has the answers to these questions ... and more.

Over the last couple of years, the face of independent music has changed completely. With the rise of websites such as MySpace and iTunes, digital radio stations, podcasts, band websites and online music stores, it has made music much easier to make, promote and distribute outside traditional channels. Whereas before it was a case of sending your band's demo tape to a record label and hoping for the best, now it's possible to cut out the middle man and make a success of your band without being signed. Clearly, concisely and with a dash of wit, The DIY Music Manual tells you exactly how to do that.

Reviews

You could literally follow it step-by-step and be totally equipped for a release or tour. Have each of your band mates chip in a few quid for this and get to work.

—— Rock Sound

A great introduction to branding, networking, online marketing, distribution and more.

—— Mixmag

An erudite, companionable, joyful book... Thrilling

—— Spectator

Matthew Battles touches on almost all the important subjects, through fascinating stories... The book is full of all sorts of treasures

—— Times Literary Supplement

An extraordinary work of scholarship. It not only places the history of Western thought in perspective, but offers new insights concerning the evolution of our thinking and the future of the whole human enterprise

—— John E. Mack, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The best intellectual history of the West in one volume I have ever seen. No other such overview provides, in equal compass, as clear and cogent a survey, Its scholarship is impeccable

—— Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions

The most thrilling narrative of the West's 3000-year odyssey in pursuit of truth accessible to a broad public... A work of genius

—— Hellenic Journal

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