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How to Block Bands on Spotify

Go ahead and get the “Thank U, Next” joke out of your system. I’ll wait. Because that’s exactly what you’ll be doing with Spotify’s latest feature: telling various bands you can’t stand that you no longer want them to pop up on the curated playlists you otherwise enjoy.

5 signs your band is doomed

Does your musical project have an expiration date? For what seems like a lifetime, but is probably just a few short years, your band has been your life. Every waking hour is spent rehearsing, perfecting and writing your material, and every sleeping hour is spent dreaming of the next level of success. You’ve planned your …

What's the Difference Between a Dutch Oven and Cast Iron?

Stuff in your foamy ear plugs: It's a like a heavy metal fight. Actually, they're more like teammates than opponents. Think of it as a friendly battle of the bands.

How 11 Famous Bands Got Their Names

From wartime slang to public bathrooms, find out the surprising (and hilarious) ways these famous bands got their names.

The 3 Biggest Reasons Why Bands Break Up

For how much music has changed over the past couple of years, the reasons bands split up seem to stubbornly be the same. The complex interpersonal dynamics in bands can be extremely difficult to navigate whether you’re fresh out of high school and touring for the first time or have been in a successful band

Why An All-Or-Nothing Approach Is Bad For Your Band

There’s something about making music that has the ability to bring out hard-line attitudes within a person. Maybe it’s because the process of writing music is often jarringly intimate and revealing for some of us, like an urgent accounting of how we truly perceive the world as human beings. Or perhaps the competitive you vs.

CRITICAL MASS: Were The Band's songs written as collaborations?

In simplest terms, a song is a succession of musical notes, expressed by a human voice or by an instrument that mimics or suggests a human voice. It doesn't necessarily need words.

How to Draw in Promoters and Press With Your Band Bio

This article originally appeared on the site of our friends over at Sonicbids As a musician, having a bio is incredibly important. It’s your opportunity to make a great first impression, no matter what stage of your career you’re in. Giving interviews, gaining fans, playing shows – these all require someone to take interest in …

Why Keeping A Band Together Is So Difficult

Music is one of the world’s most beloved and widely consumed art forms. It can do things like help us sleep, cope with a breakup, and give us the boost energy we need to focus while working at a boring job. But as vital as music is, most non-musicians ever consider how incredibly hard it

This Quiz Will Reveal What Your Punk Band's Name Should Be

A Linguist Has Some Tips for Choosing Your Future Band Name

What the Who, Slayer, and Guns N’ Roses all have in common.

Why Trying To Be Different Might Make Your Band The Same As Everyone Else

Time and time again, the sort of music that finds its way to the top of relevance, prominence, and appreciation are ideas that manage to blend listenability with stark originality. When musicians create new, fresh musical ideas presented in accessible, engaging ways, listeners take notice. With this in mind, it makes perfect sense why so

How a New Band With No Fanbase Can Start Building Local Buzz

Use these field-tested tips to start building a buzz – and a career – around your music, even if you're just starting out.

A Guide to the Hottest Icelandic Bands

The hottest Icelandic bands are a mix of some that you already know and others that you have probably never heard of.

10 hair metal bands who should have been massive

10 hair metal bands who deserved to become megastars but ultimately fell short

5 Mistakes Emerging Bands Make

Part of being an emerging band is learning as you go. When you look at it this way, making mistakes along the way is perfectly natural. But imagine if you could save yourself the trouble of certain obstacles—wouldn’t that be kind of great? Having been in the industry for nearly a decade as both a

The 17 Things Local Bands Just Don't Understand

Are you in a local band and trying to get past the plateau you're stuck on? These are the typical pitfalls bands fall into, and how to get out of them.

What Is It With Boy Bands Like One Direction?

For young people trying to figure out the thorny world of sexuality, the boy band can serve as a sort of palette, a way to safely work out the boundaries of love, or lust, or both.

The band whose DIY videos make fatbergs dance

Everything Everything say it's love, not money, that makes a good video.

Top Reasons Why Your Band Needs CDs

Top Reasons why your band needs CDs. Providing both a physical product and a digital download will increase your sales.