Help and support for Independent Music Artists, Unsigned Bands, Songwriters, those who create and perform music. Mike hooks you up with promotion and marketing, funding, airplay, fans, networking, guidance. To quickly get to copyright and licensing information → click here

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Songwriters Resource Network – News & Information for Songwriters, Free Songwriter Billboards, Industry Tips & Contacts. It is composed of professional-level songwriters, recording artists, song publishers, music producers, songwriting educators and music-industry professionals.

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Exposed Vocals
Exposing unsigned musicians to major record labels. The unsigned artists video network.

ReverbNation
"ReverbNation.com is the leading online music-marketing platform used by over two million artists – plus managers, record labels, and venues – to grow their reach, influence, and business across the internet. ReverbNation.com provides free and affordable solutions to individual artists and the music industry professionals that support them in the areas of web promotion, fan-relationship management, digital distribution, social-media marketing, direct-to-fan e-commerce, fan-behavior measurement, sentiment tracking, web-site hosting, and concert booking and promotion. "

Sonicbids
"helps bands get gigs, and promoters book the right bands. Our community includes over 150,000 bands, singers, songwriters, and performers of all kinds, and 14,000-plus music buyers of all kinds, including promoters, licensors, festival programmers, and much more."

TAXI
independent A&R company. "Helps unsigned bands, artists and songwriters get record deals, publishing deals, and placement in films and TV shows".

SoundClick
Free website to promote your band on the internet, unlimited song uploads, free MP3 store: sell your songs as digital downloads, free artist page, more. features signed, plus hundreds of thousands of unsigned bands.

Bandcamp
For artists to sell their music and merchandise directly to their fans. And for fans to discover new music and directly support the artists who make it.

CD Baby
online place to sell your cds and mp3's. "We're a company run by artists, for artists. The lion's share of the money you spend at CD Baby ends up back in the hands of the artists themselves." over 300,000 artists listed.

Kickstarter – Fund Your Music Projects
"Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields."

ArtistPR.com
music promotion and publicity for unsigned bands and artists. "a one stop music promotion company and consultancy that can help you get the Industry exposure you desire while saving you thousands of dollars and wasted years of traveling down dead end roads."

OurStage – OurStage is where the world's music fans come to discover, enjoy and reward the best emerging artists – and where the world's artists come to find their fans, get amazing gigs and launch their careers. upload your music and videos, fans vote, win prizes. offers a $5,000 monthly grand prize to the highest ranked OurStage artist.

JamBase
all about live improvisational music. "contains a comprehensive tour date search engine a tens of thousands of performances by over 30,000 bands playing in over 50,000 venues around the world. More than just a database, JamBase has evolved into the community hub that each month connects over a half a million fans of improvisational music. Also functions as a music marketing and promotions company. In addition to marquee names, we work daily with the best independent concert promoters, venues, and record labels across the country."

IAC – Independent Artists Company
24/7 KIAC Radio (internet), artists and personal page owners can create Stations and/or have their music on Stations, plus charts, forums, community, listeners, more.

ReelMusician.com
"From those just starting out to accomplished vocalists, ReelMusician.com offers strategic vocal coaching, career coaching along with jingle demo's for jingle singer's and song demo's as well as artist development strategies. Mr Gauger is well versed in both session work as well as the business side as a former agent with the infamous William Morris Agency."

BandMix
"the highest rated and largest musicians wanted and musician classifieds online."

Indie 360 – A Music Promotion Company Dedicated To Promoting Indie Musicians and Record Companies. features the "Radio Now!" Co-Op (compilation) CD and Digital Download Cards.

Celtic Knight's Garage Band Radio
A web site designed to bring Artist and A&R together. It helps create market research and projected returns, your music gets heard by people that can vote and leave comments on your music, they can join your fan base and buy your music and merchandise increasing your net income.

SongU.com (SU) – courses from fundamental to master-level mentoring, coaching on a song-by-song basis in any genre, connections to pitch your songs directly to music industry contacts, community.

IMC Independent Music Conference – national music conference designed specifically for the still fledgling, but rapidly growing independent music market.  facebook

MusicClout – promotional services and music placement for songwriters and musicians.

Music Media Zone
"Guarantees you top placement into the search engines for online exposure, all we ask is for you to submit your music. Music Media Zone is 100% Confirmed Underground Artist and Music".  facebook

Flextones - Realtones
gives "Independent & Unsigned Artists another avenue to boost their sales of music. Another goal is to give the fans and listeners more choices of ringtones and wallpapers, other than the music heard on the television or radio. FlexTones.com offers fans from all around the world the option to purchase their favorite Artists RealTones or Wallpaper for their phones."

Indie Charts
Unsigned Artists video and radio show streaming music 24/7. most genres, create a profile or submit your music and video.

Fractured Atlas
"non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more."

LiveBluesWorld.com – Blues songs, videos, members, events, forums, more. sort of a myspace and facebook for blues artists.

openmikes.org
open mic nites in the United States, search by state or zip code. Also has resources for musicians, singers and songwriters.

NoteWay Media – websites for musicians, bands, entertainers and performing artists.

Emergenza – Emergenza USA
"The largest international concert organizer for unsigned bands"

RockStar texting – band text messaging to fans, organize and grow your database.

PittRadio: Indie/Underground Music Playlist Community – Artists can manage their own profiles and music, fans can create their own playlists from thousands of songs.

Music Dealers

Future Sound Share Facebook Page
a page on Facebook hosted by David Houston where indie artists can share their music, get in a playlist, post comments, network and share info.

LocalMusicLife.com – everything music, all local.

OutboundMusic.com – country music, internet radio

Music Licensing
Music licensing is what you need to ensure proper and legitimate payment for your created music and also the proper use of it. We, at Musicdealers.com, make sure you get paid the right amount timely for your creativity.

BMI Broadcast Music, Inc.
"BMI is a performing right organization: It collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. BMI currently represents some 6.5 million compositions."

ASCAP American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
"ASCAP is a membership association of more than 275,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership. ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. ASCAP's licensees encompass all who want to perform copyrighted music publicly."

SESAC
"performing rights organization designed to represent songwriters and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public." It's the smallest of the three U.S. performing rights organizations.

RIAA Recording Industry Association of America.
"trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world."

DMCA Summary
U.S. Copyright Office summary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.