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How to Teach Music Online
As a musician, you want to have as many ways to make a few bucks available to you as possible, from playing shows, to selling various merch such as tshirts, custom cds, DVDs, posters and the like and from earning royalties on plays on online radio or iTunes downloads. But over and above that, sometimes [...]
How to Travel Hack a Tour Part III
This past week here at Mixonic, we posted the first two parts of our How to Travel Hack a Tour series. Part I covered air miles and flight hacking – those travel hacking basics that can certainly be applied to most bands at some point – even if you’re mostly a van tour type band, [...]
What Type of Merch Should Your Band Bring On Tour Part II – Dotted Music Guest Post
Every month Mixonic contributes a guest blog to the Dotted Music blog. This month our piece was spread over two parts, ‘What Type of Merch Should Your Band Bring on Tour – Part I‘ and ‘What Type of Merch Should Your Band Bring on Tour- Part II’. The first part covered items like t-shirts, keychains, [...]
What Type of Merch Should Your Band Bring On Tour Part I- Dotted Music Guest Post
Each month Mixonic contributes a guest blog article to Dottedmusic.com, a great music-industry blog that covers all facets of the music industry – from the latest in social media trends to touring tips and other DIY band ideas to how to recreate a certain muscian’s ‘look’ and what’s going on in this changing digital era.
This [...]
Interview with Andy Lee, Festival Production Manager, Mayhem Fest – Video
The Mixonic Blog caught up with Festival Production Manager Andy Lee at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival to talk about how Mayhem Fest works, tips for touring, how to get into the industry and more. Look out for more Mixonic Music Industry interviews coming soon.
Mixonic Blog interviews Andy Lee, [...]
Better Than The Van – A New Way to Tour for the DIY Musician
Betterthanthevan.com is a social networking-style website dedicated essentially to putting bands and artists on the road in touch with people willing to host them in their homes for the night at no cost. Music fans and artists can also find shows to go to and venues to play at listed on the site.
How it works [...]
Thinking Outside The Record Sales Box
As a band today, one thing is for sure, to succeed as a musician, you must have a record. But today we can no longer depend on sales of records, or indeed on securing a record contract, as our way to earn our living. So we must think outside the record sales box and look [...]
