Pigeons and Planes asked the same two questions of twenty contemporary indie musicians (most of them hip-hop artists) who are making things happen without the help of a major label:
1. What advice would you give other independent artists?
2. What do you hate most about the industry?
P&P sets up the artists’ responses saying, “Suffice to say the music industry provokes a lot of feelings, from white-hot rage to a peaceful acceptance. Starting a career in music on your own is hard, but you’re never really alone: advice from other artists will always be helpful.”
So check out what Cam Sheely, Jay Bel, Fresh Moss, Aria Lanelle, Tuck, A-Cross, and many other artists have to say about being independent in 2015.
And then let us know in the comments below — what advice would YOU give other indie artists? What do you hate most about the industry?
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Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.