New Industry Tips

Video | @DJPain1 – Promoting Your Music Online Series

Our good friend and Coast 2 Coast DJ, DJ Pain 1, has taken some time in recent weeks to post a great series for upcoming artists on how to promote music online. The series turned into 3 parts from social networking to getting beats to artists for producers. Pain 1 is a certified Gold producer [...]

Finding Funding For Your Music Business

MONETIZE YOUR MOVEMENT: REVENUE STREAMS, FINANCE & ACCOUNTING Written By Jesse Atkinson, CEO of Urban Threshold Inc. and Founder of The A&R Power Summitwww.TheARPowerSummit.com and The Underground Music Awards www.UndergroundMusicAwards.com THE KEY IS TO TRANSFORM YOUR ARTISTIC VALUE INTO MARKET VALUE AND GENERATE RETURNS. If you’re running an indie record label or production company and you can’t [...]

Tips for Success | Part 2 – The Art of Entrepreneurship

So a while back I did a couple rants regarding some of my favorite misconceptions within the entertainment industry. As a busienss owner who has both generated millions as well as paid millions out to other service providers I have seen it all, so this is my attempt to set the record straight for all [...]

Stop PIPA and SOPA!

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. As I’m sure you are all aware of there is a revolution today, we here at New Industry Tips support the freedom of the internet and are against the PIPA and SOPA acts currently circulating the hill. We constantly preach about [...]

Navigating The Mixtape Madness

ADVICE CONCERNING MIXTAPES Presently the Mixtape market is very over saturated. There are too many mixtape projects being released freely into the marketplace without any defined purpose or mission. The end result is nothing but clutter! CLUTTER MUSIC equals Sub par, mediocre, throw away music. And this is what most rappers are putting [...]

4 Supercharged Tips To Getting The Most From Your Music Video

This is a guest article written by Caroline Bottomley of Radar Music Videos to help all your artists out there get the most from your investment! * Research the kind of video you want These sites find and feature the best music videos on the internet, use them for inspiration: Vimeo Staff Picks http://www.vimeo.com/staffpicks Lost [...]

The Set-Up…Are You Really Focused On It? Or Just Excited to Hear Yourself?

With today’s technology, artists feel that once they have recorded a record and are completely excited about it, all they need to do is SoundCloud it, post it to their social media sites, and they are off and running. That is just WRONG! I have experienced good records, which could have been worked on [...]

Google Music Caters to Indie Artists

Google recently shocked both the tech world and the music industry with the launch of Google Music, basically a cloud version of iTunes which allows you to keep your music in the cloud as well as purchase music throught he Google powered Android Marketplace. We all knew this was in the works for google but [...]

Video | @coast2coastdjs Convention 2011 Recap – Sponsored by NewIndustryTips.com

Check out the recap of the amazing event put on by Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes for their third annual year end convention. NewIndustryTips.com was a main sponsor of the event that featured panels from top talent within the music industry. We will be posting additional videos from the event as they come in, but this [...]

Video | How the Internet Hurts the Music Industry – Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds has an interesting point of view on how the internet really hurts Record Companies, Artists AND Fans in today’s marketplace. In his new book he calls it the “Decommodization of Music” and points to some interesting theories.