Your Spotify artist profile isn’t just a placeholder—it’s your storefront, your press kit, your digital merch table, and your virtual … Continue reading
Sadat X’s DIY Musician Blog Takeover
A series of video interviews with the influential rapper Sadat X, one of the founding members of legendary hip-hop group Brand Nubian, has put out 12 albums over the last … Continue reading
How literate are YOUR lyrics?
Studying the dumbness of pop music When someone says “literate songwriting,” I think of Dave Carter, Kool Keith, Mary Gauthier, Elvis Costello. But let’s think about it more… literally, as … Continue reading
All About Music Publishing Administration
What Is Publishing Administration? It’s the act of making sure compositions are collecting all of the royalties they are entitled to, plus accounting (and payment of those royalties) to the … Continue reading
Fox cancels ‘American Idol’
If there’s one thing I can reliably count on to provoke the ire of CD Baby artists, it’s ‘American Idol.’ For almost a decade I’ve heard your outcry (in emails, … Continue reading
Save your sound with EQ: an audio primer for musicians
[This article was written by guest contributor Alex Andrews of Ten Kettles Inc.] The goal of this article is to get you, the musician reader, quickly familiar with audio and … Continue reading
One indie songwriter will quit making music if he doesn’t earn $1 million from Spotify by 2018
… and he plans to earn that money with an 8-hour Spotify playlist consisting of 300 of his own songs Sound extreme? Matt Farley has been taking things to the … Continue reading
Janis Ian featured in a very special Mother’s Day edition of “From the Crates”
It’s #TBT, which means it’s time for another episode of “From the Crates” CD Baby’s Patrick Griffin enlisted his mother’s help for this week’s pick: The Best of Janis Ian. … Continue reading
What’s it like to be an independent hip-hop artist in 2015?
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: … Continue reading
Small Screen Wonders: CD Baby artists featured on NBC’s The Voice
CD Baby-distributed artists are no stranger to the small screen, having competed in (and sometimes won) every major talent contest show, including: * The Voice — Javier Colon, Beverly McClellan, … Continue reading
Announcing CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference (October 23-25 in Chicago)
SAVE THE DATE for CD Baby’s first-ever DIY Musician Conference! Virtually every major music conference in the US has become an industry shindig where you pay top-dollar to watch insiders … Continue reading