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If you don’t know Derek Sivers, he’s the founder of CD Baby. You can follow him @sivers (and should). None of these PR tips are anything you don’t already know, but they’re good refreshers.

Find out what Reason patches some of today’s top artists and producers are using!

Are you guilty of a PR felony? Bob Baker talks through how to give your CD a better shot at being heard.

Trent Reznor just put up a few quick thoughts on how to be successful as an unknown artist.

Cellist Zoe Keating quit her tech job to become a touring musician. Here she offers some advice to those facing a similar decision.

A lot has been made the past few days about MySpace Local, the NewsCorp response to sites like Yelp. Here’s how to harness it as a tool to promote your music.

Jason Feinberg just wrote an article over at PBS about how to tap into social media to advance your music.

We all want ways to crank out better music, and faster. Here are a few tips I’ve employed to help with just that.

A week ago, in Fix It Before You Mix It, I wrote about 8 simple things you can do to set yourself up for success leading up to the mix stage of your project. In this article, I’ll try to take you through a few things that can help you during that mix stage.

Don’t count on fixing your recordings in the mix stage. Here are 8 simple things to do, before you mix, to get better sounding tracks.