Dance Music for Heroes
Today I’m joined by Kevin Breuner, a recording artist with Smalltown Poets who were signed to EMI and nominated for a Grammy and three dove awards. Additionally, he’s the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Artist Brands at CD Baby. Since 2007 he’s been the host of the DIY Musician Podcast which just hit 279 episodes and was named by Variety magazine as one of the “13 essential music industry podcasts.”
This week we talk about Electronic Press Kits, or EPKs. A good press kit is one of your most important marketing tools. In this shorter episode we examine what goes into them, different formats for EPKs, and we’ll review at a couple of different examples.
In this episode of the podcast we look at websites for DJs and producers: why you need a website, one approach for doing it yourself, and some words of caution. I share some of the lessons I’ve learned from running and maintaining this website since 2017, and why I made the decisions I did.
In today’s episode of the Produce Life Podcast, we look at eight ways to reduce Ableton CPU usage including a simple hack I call the Perfect 10. We’re also going to talk about using affiliate marketing to boost your income as a producer and musician.
Email, despite being decades-old technology, is still critical for a musician’s success. In this article I’m going to go over the basics of how to create an email list for musicians. I’ll cover why it’s important, provide some content ideas, and give some proven techniques for growing your list.
