Well start by not doing it like a drive by shooting. I just hate when people befriend me on Linked In (or facebook) and two days later send a stupid message that I should listen to their songs. Before I

Continue ReadingHow do you present new music?

The roles become clearer right now. Most artists look for a record label or a management. Instead they should look for an artist development company. What do you say, do these exist? Yes they do, especially if you are in

Continue ReadingIts artist development you are looking for.

Sometimes I bump into artists that put up imaginary walls in certain ways. Usually they put in some barrier because of something. For example if they play folk music they just aim for small labels (and I mean super small),

Continue ReadingImaginary walls

I hear it all the time from artists; we are ready for the next step. Then I usually ask them what that is? Usually the answer is that they would get a label, and then when they get the label

Continue ReadingYou must take the path that no one has taken.

No you wouldn’t put a songwriter to build a professional road bridge (a bridge in a song is another story) because they don’t have the education to do it. To put it around you don’t put an engineer to write

Continue ReadingYou don’t put songwriter to build a bridge!

You really don’t talk about this even though everybody knows it. I was visiting a record label talking about some new projects and we came into a mutual friend who just signed a band.  It’s a good band, been around

Continue ReadingDoes an artist have a value?

I see to many artists do the mistake to start in the wrong end. People that want to have the same page on Spotify as Madonna even though they haven’t  reach over 1000 streams. They are trying to get the

Continue ReadingStart on the right path, get dirty!

Right now when I write this it’s Saturday night, correct it’s on hour into Sunday morning. I worked on Saturday from 9:00 until 18:00 then I watched Eurovision with some friends (witch technically is part job for me). Then back

Continue ReadingThe new management role!

I’m really tired of the service companies that treat the artists like cattle. It’s so many of them, like Sonicbids, Band Camp, Reverb nation etc. They might offer a small thing for you as an artist. Usually that you can

Continue ReadingWe can fix everything!

I just been in a couple of meetings with several bigger firms around the world and the tags are on the wall. No no no, Spotify as a company is not dead, well it can be with the new deals

Continue ReadingSpotify is dead!