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Jonathan Davis To Discuss His Career at Musicians Institute Event
Find out how to get tickets, even if you're not a student at MI.
7 Lessons All Musicians Should Learn From Prince
If you've ever wanted to be more like Prince, now you have seven extremely good excuses.
Five Notable Classical Musicians Who Served in World War I
Several promising talents died at the front in World War I, others suffered debilitating injuries. Here are five notable musicians who served.
How My Life as a Musician Helped Me Close the Biggest Deal of My Career
Early mornings and late nights on the road taught me resiliency and the importance of working with the right people.
Why Dealing With Disappointment Is Vital For Musicians
Music is, was, and probably always will be an often brutal and thankless career path for most musicians. Summing a musician’s struggle up as lots of work for not much money would be way too simple because for serious songwriters and musicians, the emotional toll of trying to forge a path in music proves to
How Gratitude Can Make You A Better Musician
If you’re a musician trying to build a career, having gratitude for what you’ve already accomplished in music can help give you a positive new perspective.
A Musicians Guide to a Sound Check
As a musician, you play a crucial role in the sound check. A live sound setup, especially in a small or medium sized venue, is a delicately ...
Being a musician in the audience (What we REALLY think)
What every musician is secretly thinking during someone else’s show. Just as teachers can make the worst students, so too can musicians make the worst audience members. Sure, we’d like to think we lead by example, but the truth is far more cynical. We’re fickle creatures, our pride barely masked by a veneer of modesty. …
How To Part Ways With Other Musicians
In a perfect world, the musicians we choose to work with will be thoughtful, helpful, and encouraging when it comes to the music we’re making. But like any relationship, the interpersonal connections between musicians in bands and other musical projects can often be as complex and dramatic as music itself. Sometimes the answer is to
Why Healthy Habits Will Make You A Better Musician
For about as long as musicians have been writing music and performing, the world of music has been synonymous with things like terrible diets, late nights, and copious amounts of booze and drugs. But while unhealthy lifestyles make for good television, they can be hell on a musician’s body. If making and performing music is
How to Make Money as a Musician
It's not impossible to earn a living and possibly create a business from your talent.
What Being a Musician Can Teach Us About Life
We look at life lessons that musicians can learn from their music-making, from embracing creativity to diversity to discipline.
Why You Should Stop Worrying About Success In Music
What does success in music really mean? It’s a question every serious musician is faced with throughout their careers. Click to find out more.
Why Every Musician Needs to Think Like a Producer
How to make sure your team's sound matches its desire.
How Musicians Can Come Together To Create Momentum For Their Music
There’s no doubt that today’s music industry is fiercely competitive. Because an insane amount of new music comes out each and every day, it makes sense that musicians often adopt a winner-takes-all mentality when it comes to promoting and advocating for their work. But rather than fighting each other and entertaining jealousy when another artist’s
What Should a Christian Musician Do?
Christian Musicianship. Questions and answers to common queries about how to glorify God with your gift.
13 things every DIY musician should know how to do
If you’re one of those artists who thinks it’s enough just to be a good musician, check out Pigeons and Planes’ recent article “Things Every Indie Artist Should Know How to Do.” It’s a good kick-in-the-pants for anyone clinging to the very 20th-Century fiction (because it wasn’t true then either) that musicians can get by …
Just How Much Do Indie Musicians Earn From Spotify?
If you are an aspiring music artist / entrepreneur, you might have thought to make money through s...
10 Tricks That Musicians and Actors Use in Live Performances
From live pitch correction and in-ear cues to line feeding and hidden singers.
7 Lessons All Musicians Can Learn From Marketing Guru Seth Godin
You're about to get a crash course in Godinisms, which are applicable in so many areas of life and work as a musician.
10 Famous Blind Musicians Who Rocked The World
The music industry has been known for the cut-throat competition. Earning some money by playing music was never been a cakewalk. Turning a passion into a successful career demands a lot...
