Showcasing gets more and more complicated since it becomes more and more vital for artists that really want a career. The festivals provide the gateway to a more and more international global market. So far it has been quite fair.

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I was talking to a manager during a showcase that was complaining about that his band never got out anything from showcase festivals. He was taking his band to this festival and complained that he didn’t get a record contract.

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I’m on my way back from MENT a showcase festival in Slovenia. Of course, I come back with several opportunities for the artists I work with. Right now I think the smaller showcase festivals are the best to get a

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It is a milestone I guess. At least for me. Getting 50 000 views in shorter of 3 years. It started as a experiment to show that you can build a blogg as an artist. My blog is much smaller

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I just got some emails from band applying for different things and what is common with them, they promise to much. One is comparing with the most successful band in Sweden the last 20 years. A bit humble that they are at least

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No you can’t control everything! There is no chance that you can do that so if you have that urge to control everything I actually would suggest you to not work in the musicindustry. The problem that a perosn with

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One of the most common comments I get when artist ask questions is, I want to do the right thing/choice. The question is understandable, still, this industry doesn’t work under such rules. If it was so simple that you follow certain

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Sorry this post will be in Swedish. And since I can’t translate the text that i’m writing about it will just be for Sweden. Sorry for this. Min kompis Roger tipsade om en helt vansinnig krönika i Nolltretton. Visst ytterligare

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Some people went nuts that Facebook will change their algorithms so that you see more messages from friends and close relatives and not so much from groups or pages that you follow. Of course, that affects all the fan pages for artists.

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The past days have been conversations with artists that don’t know what is big or not big. Sure if you send your music to hundreds of  small blogs and radio stations someone will play you. That doesn’t mean that you

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