MUSIC RECORDING SITES

Sound on Sound SoundonSound.com is primarily a magazine for recording engineers and musicians however it also has a variety of other great articles on many other aspects of the music industry.

Phil Tyreman - Producer "With ten years experience in the music industry Phil has worked with, and learnt from, some of the best from both sides of the Atlantic"

Sam Jones - Producer ""I’m a freelance record producer who has worked with a wide range of artists and genres throughout the UK and around the world over the past 6 years or so. A lot of my work has been based in Sheffield where I produced and helped develop some of the most successful bands to come out of that scene." "

DIGITAL STORES & DISTRIBUTION

IndieStore IndieStore is cool London based download site that deals with a lot of the major labels and brands but also deals directly with unsigned artists.

IndieMobile Indie Mobile distribute music via mobile phone accessible stores.

Snocap Snocap allows you to sell music via your myspace page and other social networking sites via their widget.

CDbaby One of the first big online independent distributors. CD baby will get your songs on all the major online digital stores and distribute physical copies for a small fee.

TuneCore Tunecore is a digital aggregator who can get your songs distributed via all the major download sites like iTunes, Napster, HMV.

Emu Bands Emu Bands is another digital aggregator who can get your songs distributed via all the major download sites like iTunes, Napster, HMV.

Music Strategies Guide to Selling online If you need some guidance then NewMusicStrategies.com has a comprehensive guide to selling music on your website.

The Official iTunes Link Maker If you want to make buying your music through iTunes as easy as clicking an icon on your website then The Official iTunes Link Maker generates the website code for a button that links directly to your product on the iTunes Store.

Drop Cards Want to give away tracks at your gigs but don't want to have any CDs printed? Well these little Drop Cards are perfect, customise them with your own artwork, give them away and then let people download your tracks via a download link printed on the back of the card.

Amiestreet Amie Street is one of our favourite independent music download sites run by people who do it genuinely for the love of the music. Go here if you want one of the best deals on selling your music online.

Band-ID "A UK version manufacturer similar to DropCards.com who offer custom printed cards with Unique PINs printed on them for your customers to download your music with. "

Legaldownload "Hi, this is a website which contains a number of essential things for music promotion and selling music. Already 15.000 bands and record companies use our service. "

UK MUSIC INDUSTRY CONTACTS

AIM Directory* Recommended The Association of Independent Music has a great directory of all their members details.

Musicweek Directory Online directory of contacts from the UK's major music industry publication.

Showcase Directory An invaluable sources of contacts for every facet of the UK music industry.

Unsigned Guide The Unsigned music guide is an invaluable resource for any unsigned artist with details of everything from record labels to media to promoters to education. They've recently made their contacts available online making this a near essential resource.

Surface Unsigned Surface Unsigned is a great website full of promotional contacts and ideas. Apply to appear at the Surface Unsigned Festival in front of a huge Music Live Expo Audience filled with industry contacts.

UK MUSIC INDUSTRY BLOGS

Music Business and Trend Mongering ---- Andy Edwards ---- Digital Audio Insider ---- Hit Singularity ---- Juggernaut Brew ---- New Music Strategies ---- Lee Jarvis 2.0 ---- Sentric Music's Blog ---- Steve Lawson ---- Rag's Soapbox ----

REST OF THE WORLD MUSIC INDUSTRY BLOGS

coolfer * Recommended ---- Way Cool Jnr ---- Indie Music Tech ---- Music Industry Tools ---- Music Think Tank ---- Unsprung Wisdom ---- Lefsetz Letter ---- New Music Ideas ---- Plugo.la Blog ----

ONLINE MEDIA

Beatcast.tv Beatcast.tv call themselves 'The Independent Channel for Independent music" and feature live recordings of shows as well as a social networking system that allows you to follow bands, get up to date info and receive more media. It's well worth contacting them and getting on the bandwagon as they seem to be really building themselves a niche in the online media market.

Blackcab Sessions Live sessions with top musicians in the back of London Black Cabs - it's even cooler than it sounds!

Radar Music Videos "A bespoke online matchmaking service between record labels, bands and music video directors. A commissioning service that works best with lower budgets, Radar also promote video online, where they guarantee at least thousands of views, rising to hundreds of thousands."

My Dad Rocks "Indie music, news, reviews and gigs"

WEB RADIO

Live365.com Live365.com is home to thousands of online stations. You can find information here about how to submit your tracks to the DJs.

Shoutcast Shoutcast is AOL's internet radio platform.

Radio Paradise Radio Paradise is a cool very popular indie radio site, info on submitting tracks is here.

Indie1031.fm Indie1031.fm is a LA based site with some great shows.

RadioIO RadioIO streams genre specific channels through many of the top providers, including iTunes. Information on how to get your music play listed is here.

Rajar The UK radio ratings company Rajar has a database of all the country's national and local stations. Whilst the point of the site is to get ratings data, by digging around a bit you can get all the names of all your local stations.

SOCIAL NETWORKING RESOURCES

Webreference.com has a great page on how to customize your myspace page using a little CSS and HTML formatting knowledge.

Five mistakes you're probably making on your MySpace page Five mistakes you're probably making on your MySpace page from New Music Strategies

Artistdata.com Artistdata.com allows you to synchronize your postings across a number of social networking sites meaning that you only ever have to post new songs/blog entries once for the maximum amount of exposure.

MUSIC MARKETING BLOGS

Get Signed Get Signed is a US Website with some good resources and articles on Getting Signed, Music Promotion, US Law, Gigs and Recording.

Bob Baker's Bob Baker's book and website The Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook have some great ideas, pointers and links

Seth Godin's Seth Godin's blog is a goldmine of great internet marketing ideas and information.

Unsigned Band Promotion Unsigned Band Promotion is a free site with a wealth of useful information on promoting your band's website and other online activities.

New Music Strategies The New Music Strategies website is full of "fresh approaches for online music business". The free e-book is essential reading.

Bob Letsetz Bob Letsetz's blog and regular emails are a great source of entertainment and insider opinion. He'll either inspire or completely infuriate you!

Music 2.0 Directory Great directory of web 2.0 resources for promoting your music.

MUSIC LICENSING

Rumblefish Licensing your music for TV, video and film can not only be a huge revenue stream but also a great way of promoting your music to a huge audience. One of the most well known websites is Rumblefish's Music Licensing Store which allows you to upload your music for music editors and ad agencies to browse.

Youlicense.com YouLicense is an online music licensing marketplace. YouLicense is non-exclusive and welcomes anyone with musical content to upload music and offer licenses for sale.

BLOG DIRECTORIES

Hype Machine Blog Directory and Aggregator

Blog Flux Directory Blog Flux Directory

Blogged Blogged Directory

Blogarama blogarama - the blog directory

UK MUSIC AND MP3 BLOGS

Nothing But Green Lights * Recommended ---- BBC Introducing ---- Buzzin Music Blog ---- Breaking More Waves ---- 88Days ---- A New Band A Day ---- Both Bars On ---- NoiseMakesEnemies.co.uk/ ---- Sweeping the Nation ---- Headphone Sex ---- 17 Seconds ---- Comfort Comes ---- Eaten By Monsters ---- Eye May Listen ---- Fact Magazine ---- Fire Escape Talking ---- Folly Of Youth ---- Fun Fun Fun ---- Ich Luge Bullets ---- If Blog ---- Illegal Tender ---- I Really Love Music ---- It's Getting Boring By The Sea ---- Just Press Play ---- Keep Hope Inside ---- Lots of Random Words ---- MFM ---- Music Liberation ---- Music Like Dirt ---- No Rip Cord ---- Parallax view ---- Rock Sellout ---- Daily Growl ---- The Milk Factory ---- The Pop Cop ---- Sonic Minefield ---- Von Pip Musical Express ---- Yer Mam! ---- Cosmic Disco ---- Rocksellout.com ----

REST OF THE WORLD MUSIC AND MP3 BLOGS

Brooklyn Vegan ---- IndieFeed ---- StereoGum ---- Gorilla vs Bear ---- Said the Gramophone ---- Largehearted Boy ---- I Guess I'm Floating ---- Music for kids who can't read good ---- My Old Kentucky Blog ---- *Sixeyes ---- Slutty Fringe ---- Chromewaves ---- Daytrotter ---- Fluxblog ---- Good Weather For Airstrikes ---- Pitchfork ---- You Ain't No Picasso ---- BuzzSonic ----