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  • Songstuff Writer and Artist Development Challenges

    By john

    Independent writers and artists face several large disadvantages when they are compared to signed, mainstream writers and artists.  Disadvantages that add up to making it a competition that indies can’t win. Hell they can’t even compete.   Lack of budget and poor contacts are fairly obvious disadvantages. Lack of experience and a lack of knowledge restricts songwriters and artists alike. Lack of an overall strategy, and a limited set of incomplete tactics, makes for a critical problem
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Musings

"Emily King commented on my Instagram Profile!" | COVID19 Collabs

During this global pandemic, for better or for worse, social media and the internet in general have taken the front seats in many of our lives.   This is especially the case for many musicians as they turn to services like Instagram and Youtube to entertain their fans and interact with them. We see artists like Norah Jones doing mini concerts or Jordan Rakei writing songs while streaming live every week. And I think it's bringing musicians and followers to a common ground with pretty i

Mahesh

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Mix It Up

Mix It Up

Welcome to Mix It Up, a blog in parallel with my new YouTube channel with a variety of music content aimed at the aspiring musician.  Some special content on my favourite music genre Grunge is included.  I hope you will join me and subscribe.   My first video in a continuing series is here - more to come...  

jonlint

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From Scratch

Forward Motion

Sometimes that process of thinking about things can be as much of a deterrent to progress as anything else.   You see it all of the time, that the biggest barrier to creativity is yourself.  Too much thinking about stuff, not enough doing.  Fear of doing something that doesn't "measure up", too  much worrying about quality control, when you have no output over which to QA check! Obsessing over the gear you "might" need, when you probably have more resource in your laptop than the Beatl

Gazebo

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Dakota Cochran - Music Marketing Tips and How To

Music Marketing Challenge #1

Music Marketing Challenge #1 - Dakota Cochran | Ok, a very simple music marketing challenge.   Take a track of yours on either Soundcloud or YouTube. Sceenshot the current song stats including plays, post the pic in reply to this topic. Write a blog post that embeds the song on either of those platforms (if you don’t have a blog, start one for your band here on Songstuff!) Share that blog post into your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ Do everyhing you can le

Dakota Cochran

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Peggy's Picks from YouTube

Happy Valentine's Day!

The Blue Stones "Be My Fire Brian Fallon - You Have Stolen My Heart Jonathan Bree - Say You Love Me Too (feat. Clara Viñals) Teddy Swims - Make You Feel My Love (Cover) The Teskey Brothers - So Caught Up Samantha Fish - Love Letters  Teddy Swims - Let Me Love You (Mario Cover) Beth & Joe - Close To My Fire  John W SelleckStars Upon The Water LeAnn Rimes - I Need You (Official Music Video) Kyle Park"Every Day Kind of Love 02. Old Love The Flat White Album Sam Tompkins –

Peggy in Valentines Day

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Lisa Gates

Yesterday (what a great movie!)

Wow! It is everything I wanted it to be.   I've wanted to see it but hate going to the movies alone. I was watching to see if it would hit Netflix but my lack of patience got the best of me at Wal-mart... I bought the DVD (Is this old fashion now to buy a DVD?)   Such a cool plot. Who thinks these things up?!!! A world with out The Beatles...brilliant plot!   The actors were amazing and the singing was beautiful. @Gazebo he plays at Latitude! (I totally thought

Lisa Gates

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MusicTales.club

Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space

American multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Adrian Belew managed to extract entirely extraordinary sounds from his guitar even before the invention of guitar synthesizers which would later become a trend not without his significant contribution. During his nearly 50-year long career, he generated an easily recognizable and stylistically unique soundscape, taking part in the most progressive projects of the century including Talking Heads, King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails and other ventures headed

childed

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Peggy's Picks from YouTube

Vol 2 Playlist 1

Eliza & The Delusionals – Just Exist Editors - Black Gold Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings Overcoats - The Fool Jeff Vicario Sonia D - Breathe The Adventures of Hollis - Joseph M Kearns PIXIES - Long Rider Broken Bells - Good Luck The Blue Stones - Shakin' Off The Rust    

Peggy

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Songstuff Stuff

Featured Artists - Soundcloud Playlist Of Songstuff Artists

Featured Artists - Soundcloud Playlist   23 songs from Songstuff Featured Artists. A diverse playlist of artists covering a broad range of genres. All independent artists, please support our Featured Artists. @moptop @ames1212 @Avit Hammer @Simon Darveau @CapM Deep Red Sea (aka @john) @GocartMoz @john @emilyandersonmusic @daryl1968 @Just1L (2 songs) @Tom Collins @SteveA @Mahesh (2 songs) @M57 (2 songs) @Kel @Achazia (2 songs) @Steve Mueske (2 songs)   #playl

john

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From Scratch

Keeping on, keeping on.

There has been progress.   I hate the phrase "LIfe getting in the way". It presupposes that life being lived is in some way less valuable than stamp collecting, trout fishing, off road biking, music (whatever your interest is).   Truth is, that life is what enriches our interest, through providing perspective, and to a certain extent scarcity.   There has been a lot of life since my first post on this blog.  Most of it very positive, and things that you wouldn't set

Gazebo

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Peggy's Picks from YouTube

Vol 1 Playlist 10

Enjoy the featured artists on my YouTube weekly top 10 picks playlist. This playlist includes but is not limited to artists from the Songstuff community. Songstuff members and their songs are highlighted.   This week’s awesome artists and their songs:   Kaylee Bell - Wasted On You Swilly - I Let You Lie  The Teskey Brothers - So Caught Up Leann Rimes - Gasoline And Matches Half Moon Run - Favourite Boy Gone West - What Could've Been Sunny Sweeney - Staying’s Worse

Peggy in Vol 1 Playlist 10

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Peggy's Picks from YouTube

Vol 1 Playlist 9

Ready for some Indie Country Music?  Have a listen to these featured artists on my YouTube weekly top 10 picks playlist. This playlist includes but is not limited to artists from the Songstuff community. Songstuff members and their songs are highlighted.   This week’s awesome artists and their songs:   Eleven Hundred Springs – Every Time I Get Close To You Carrie Rodriguez – Devil In Mind Jordan Rager – Small Town Talkin’ Runaway June – Buy My Own Drinks J

Peggy

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Musomox Playlists

Rock It! - Songstuff Spotify Playlist

Curated by John (Musomox) this is the first selection of independent rock music featured in the Rock It! playlist on Songstuff’s Spotify account.   Songs featured on this playlist are drawn from a mix of artists including both members of the Songstuff community and non-members.   This week’s awesome artists and their songs: Hand You’re Dealt – 10 Gauge @10GaugeOfficial Bulletproof Revolver – Sophie Lloyd @SophieLoyd Apocalyptelectrorock Here on

john

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Peggy's Picks from YouTube

Vol 1 Playlist 8

Such a great collection of  indie music artists from YouTube being featured in my playlist of weekly top 10 picks.  This week’s awesome artists and their songs:   Warm Drag – Cave Crawl Fleet Walker – From the Studio Moses Guest – Wheel Jonathan Bree – Say You Love Me Too (feat. Clara Viñals) The Cherry Bluestorms – Seven League Boots Dope lemon – Hey You Death Valley Girls – Dream Cleaver Sleepy Tom – In My Head (feat. Blonde Diamond) Littl

Peggy

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From Scratch

The Germ of an Idea

I was on a sunbed.   The sun was beating down, and I was thinking about how much I love writing, playing and recording music, but that nothing happened with it.   I have been here at Songstuff for a long while.  I'm not much of an activist -  a part time lurker really, but I started thinking it might be tome for a change.   I wanted to set some rules, some targets and objectives and to see how I can do better than I have before.  Here's what I'm thinking: Cre

Gazebo

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Peggy's Picks from YouTube

Vol 1 Playlist 7

Hi guys,   This is Vol 7 of our weekly  playlist of Indie Artists and songs for the Songstuff - Artists YouTube channel.  This list  includes our members  @Mahesh @Tandem Unicycle   #Enjoy 🎶🎶🎶   Featured Artists and Songs: (member's are highlighted) Katy Hurt – Revved Up Ashley McBryde – One Night Standards Clever Little Tramps – Nothing Is Worthless Mahesh – Come Find Me Maye – Tú

Peggy

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