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Managers: Can’t Live With Them…But Can You Live Without Them?
You can’t throw a rock in any metropolis on Earth without hitting someone claiming to be a manager Where musicians go, managers follow...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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And The Winner Is: Will Awards And Contests Lead To Bigger Things?
Imagine this: you’re a huge rockstar You’re pool is filled with hotties and your bathtub with champagne...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Create A Buzz: If You Build It They Will Come!
Building a music career is hard work Every day, month and year you repeat the same grind: build the band, write the songs, record the songs, rehearse the songs, perform the songs, promote the band, advertise the band, solicit industry, publicize to the press, build the website, create the message boards, forums, and chat rooms, assemble the street team…it goes on and on until you think your head will surely explode from the mountains of menial tasks that face you, the unsigned artist, each day...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Career
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Get Up, Get On And Get Off: The Early Bird Catches The Record Deal!
Imagine this…you’re in the local hospital’s pre-op ward waiting for the removal of your pesky rupturing appendix...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Career
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Fan Etiquette: Are The People Who Love Your Music Ruining Your Band’s Reputation?
They’re generous, they’re consistent, they’re giving…and most of all...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Career
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Scandalous Behavior: What Happens At The Afterparty, Stays At The Afterparty!
Musicians work hard They write for days...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Career
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Leave Your Drama At Home: More Rockin’ And Less Squawkin’!
No matter how we, as human beings, live our lives…drama happens And the average musician has more drama than the crazy cat lady down the block has bags of used litter on her porch...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Set Goals: Your Rockstardom Wasn’t Built In A Day!
Every musician currently living on the Planet Earth would love nothing more than to wake up tomorrow in the midst of their glorious peak of superstardom...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Radio Play: Will Topping The Charts Make You Bigger Than Elvis?
Every true life rock ‘n’ roll television melodrama has the same scene: the unknown artist/band gives their freshly cut 45rpm single to the local disc jockey...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Every Song Tells A Story…But Does It Need To Be An Abstract Novel?
For a musician, your songs are your art They are the physical embodiment of your creative gifts...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Be Committed!...You’ll Never Be Famous If You Don’t Show Up!
Everyone wants to be famous: live in a mansion, drive a sports car, tour the world in your private plane, date a model, float around in the pool while collecting royalties for CD sales, and drink beer right out of your private tap...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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The Green-eyed Monster: Are You Friends Really Happy For Your Success?
Ideally, it should always be the way you’ve imagined it in your daydreams You get the phone call you’ve been waiting for: the big live review, the hot music management company wants you to sign with them, the A&R rep from that major label is coming to your next showcase, or you were picked as one of the best unsigned musicians in the area...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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It’s All Good: There Is No Such Thing As Bad Press!
It’s one of the oldest riddles in the history of music: If a band rocks hard in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it…did it ever really happen...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Opening Acts! Does Playing Before A Rock Star Make You One?
It’s the dream of many a musician to open up for either: their favorite band or the favorite band of their childhood...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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Stop Burning Bridges… Or Your Career Might Go Up In Flames!
Hey, nobody said the music business was going to be easy It truly is a jungle out there filled with: snakes, rats, rabid carnivores, sharks…well, you get the picture...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Advice
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To Tour Or Not To Tour…That Is The Question!
It’s every musician’s fantasy The tour bus rolls up to the arena (full of groupies, beer and pizza)...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Advice
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Show Me The CD... If You Think Your Music’s Great, Record It!
Throughout the history of modern music, there hasn’t been a musical artist/band who doesn’t think that their songs are all #1 hits just waiting to be discovered...
Author: Sheena Metal - Category: Entertainment
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