INDIE MUSIC DIGEST - Independent Music Reviews

IMD Partnerships & Endorsements Below are just a few companies IMD is affiliated with. IMD also endorses and recommends the many different services they provide Independent Artists.

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What company is the largest online distributor of independent music? CD Baby that's who. Based out of Portalnd, Oregon, CD Baby doesn't interface with any outside distributors, or record labels. Instead they sell your music directly to the consumer, shipping it from their warehouse. Besides selling CD's on their site, musical downloads are also available, and they can deliver your music to other download retailers, such as (iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, and many more) if you request it. Once your music is sold CD Baby pays the artist right away, and CD Baby keeps 9% of your earnings. One important thing to note: in a regular record, or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per album, if they’re ever lucky enough to get paid by their label at all. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per album and get paid weekly.

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Sonicbids is the world's largest site for gigging musicians. Connecting over 200,000 bands to 18,000 promoters across the globe. With their network of partners and community of emerging bands, they are able to develop innovative music marketing programs for a wide variety of national and international brands. The bands, fans and promoters who come together through Sonicbids create a powerful resource for sponsors looking to connect with the lifestyle of those driven by a desire to make, promote, and listen to great music. It’s a great tool for independent artists.

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Skope Entertainment Inc (SEI) is a full service music based media company. In business since January 2001, Skope covers and engages an audience of music enthusiasts with diverse music coverage for the digital age. Skope Entertainment Inc offers a variety of resources to market your product, service, or good. When advertising with Skope you have a range of marketing tools at your disposal.

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Ritch Esra and Stephen Trumbull provide valuable Music Business Registries to help the Independent Artist.

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RDX promotes your release to all Radio, Media & Club DJs (Club Djs for specific genres only) via their weekly release notices. RDX tells them what's new and what's hot each week. They contact RDX and preview any release they are interested in and if they like - they request a copy. RDX sends out a CD listing, complete with biography, reviews/quotes, streaming audio samples and the ability for all registered Radio, Club DJs & Media to request and receive a promotional copy of your CD for airplay and/or review. You only mail your CD when requested. This saves you time, money, CDs and greatly increases the opportunity for radio airplay as each Radio/Media Member has to actually request your CD.

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Doing all the right things in the Music Business is how you build success, exposing it to the right people in the industry is how Independent music become professional. This is the mission of Seattle based Katavi Arts. Katavi Arts is a production company yes, but we also provide a host of other services to bands and artists like studio recording, mixing, mastering, URL & press pack development, legal representation, talent buying, booking, and are many distribution plans to people like music critics, radio, A&R reps, movie music supervisors, music placement companies, and much more. Let Katavi Arts & it's vast network of professionals help you achieve success in the Music Industry by putting it all together for you.

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Music Muse is one of the leading online portals available designed exclusively for Independent Artists. Besides being a great music review hub, Music Muse also offers a plethora of tools available to artists such as Reference guides for singer and songwriters, amazing commentary, Berkeley Music Courses, and all types of other services and resources deigned to help the Independent Artists.

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Cohesive TV is a TV station for music, fashion, movies & everything else important to Independent Artists. Watch free shows online which are produced with a passion to create innovative new TV bringing you all, from hot new music videos, previews, interviews, behind the scenes material. Cohesive.TV is also one of the very first to becomes mobile TV and therefore it works with your iPhone, iPod & iPad.

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Located in Seattle, WA. Rick Fisher and RRI CD Mastering is simply one of the best bang for buck Mastering services you will ever find.

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