Marketing your music on The Indie

How to market your music to over 250,000 fans and supporters of The Indie

Making your music go viral

Going viral today is the best way for an artist to get global exposure. In fact, some of today’s biggest artists (Drake, Justin Beiber, etc) have used the internet to go viral and jump start into super stardom. Therefore, as an indie artist you should be asking yourself what can I do to make my [...]

The Cougars present a classic comedic Punk 101

The Cougars categorize themselves as POP music. Who am I to argue with them. Although…( smilingly venturing an argument ), they sound more punk to me. Disclaimer : (they are noted as a punk band elsewhere). From the opening line of the first song it has the tongue-in-cheek lyrics ,angst and hopeful thrashing guitars for which punk [...]

EtRecs – Urban Poland represents

ETRecs is a record label from Ludlin, Poland housing artists of mainly the hip hop and electronic genres. The tracks supplied on The Indie.biz are by no means a definitive take on the musical range of the artists they represent…BUT…it’s a really pleasant sampler for any Neophyte to independent Urban Polish music. The songs currently on [...]

Ninci – nice on the eye, nearly there on the ear

L.A. Reid’s declaration on television recently that “stardom was never about singing” and that a connection with the public is due to one’s “lovability” might come to mind. Miss “Ninci’s” appearance certainly serves as a boost for her “lovability” in a pop stardom context. Catchy hooks and familiar phrases galore could give her the type of [...]

Rabbits and Stars – Folk Rock

Stars and Rabbits is endearing. No really. This is easily classified as “world music” in lazy unimaginative large music franchise reference terms. Brew the Chai Latte! Preferably for two…with candles in over-sized red glasses. As their track “Worth it” goes … “Are you coming baby eyes,it takes two to do the ocean baby. Are you coming [...]

Jaloes – Taciturn Piano Classical

Jaloes, a Spanish composer, totally scraps any misconceptions his profile photographs may induce. By modern standards that’s a fair comment. However – Bob Dylan once said that the truth was just “a plain picture”. He presents a Classical series of tracks that serves well as a score for those weary of the boom, boom, clash muzak of [...]

Earning and using Indie Points on TheIndie.biz

Recently, we have received a number of inquiries about how Indie Points are earned, and how can they be used? So, today I want to review with everyone what indie points are, how they are earned and how they can be used on The Indie. What are Indie Points Indie Points are a unique, social [...]

The Indie leverages social media to promote its top artists

The Indie leverages its vast network of social apps (facebook, bebo, myspace), social pages (facebook, twitter, myspace), and web applications (www.theindie.biz) to promote new music to fans on a global scale. That means that we are always searching for new artists and music expose to  100,000+  fans, followers and supporters of The Indie. This is [...]

Create your username on TheIndie.biz

Dear friends, Today, we are excited to announce a new upgrade to The Indie that will allow artists to select their desired username. This is an important update because artists can now quickly point their fans, friends and supporters to their page by using www.theindie.biz/<myusername>. How to select a username: Login to The Indie (www.theindie.biz) [...]