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Tips for musicians and bands when approaching music journalists 9 Articles

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    by Rachelle de Bretagne

    Tips for musicians and bands when approaching music journalists When you are famous, music journalists contact you, though in the early stages of a career, the opposite applies, simply because you want to get your wo...read more

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    by Timothy Edward Jones

    One of the most perplexing challanges in the music industry is capturing the favorable attention of a music journalist. Today, most bands, artist and musicians shy away from those that live and die by the pen. Yet, the pen...read more

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    by Edina Jackson

    PR for an artist or fashion designer or anyone can be a very scary word! It does not have to be though because it can be as easy as you make it. Many artists don't have the money to get a professional PR rep on hand or may...read more

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    by Rose Cora Perry

    So You Wanna be a Rockstar? Vol 1, Issue 11: Getting the Right Kind of Press When it comes to making or breaking an act in the music biz, a philosophy that I have come to fully embrace explains that in order to obtain...read more

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    by Pj Perez

    Few relationships in the media are as symbiotic and tenuous as that of the publicity-starved musician and the music journalist. Both need what the other has to ensure their very survival, yet theirs is a dance of thrusts a...read more

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    by Blake Guthrie

    FIRST CONTACT -It's not business, it's personal- As a working musician who is also a working music journalist I've made friends in both fields of the music industry, so I feel I have something to offer to this topi...read more

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    by Missy Hall

    So, your garage band is finally out and getting some gigs. You have local fans. Wouldn't it be nice to see something written about your band in the paper? First, you need to put together a press packet. It should includ...read more

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    by Heather Steeley

    As a music journalist I get asked the same questions over and over again. So here's a couple of hints and tips for dealing with my kin. Firstly, it's unlikely that we will take a listen to your band and tell you what we...read more

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    by Sherrill Fulghum

    I cannot count the number of times I have had to write something about a musician or band even if was only a news bite about an upcoming performance and could not find any information about the artists not even the kind o...read more

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