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Music Insider: Why Every Band Needs a Blog

Music Insider: Why Every Band Needs a Blog  Every musician wants to make money with their music. Word-of-mouth marketing, paper fliers, and seedy managers are so last century. To make it today, every musician needs to become net-savvy and start a blog. First off, what is a band blog?   Think of a blog as an online journal, where your band can connect with music fans and chat about your latest gig, upcoming albums, last night's recording session, or where the band will be playing next week. Post band pics, free music downloads , and links to your latest albums. The key to blogging is to write new posts regularly (a few times a week) and to get fans to subscribe to your music blog . Subscribers will get alerted every time your band posts something new. Setting up a music blog is pretty easy. You can use Wordpress, Blogger , or any number of other free blogging sites. I have been using Blogger for a few years now, and I am pretty impressed with its traffic even though ...