| Resource Name |
Description |
| Garage Band | Garage Bands mission is to empower musicians and to discover the best independent music.
As a grass-roots community, they take pride in being the best place for rising musicians to get feedback and exposure, exchange ideas, find new fans, and further their careers. |
| Mindawn | Mindawn is the cutting-edge answer to electronic music distribution. We provide CD-quality audio that is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and for any portable device. Anyone can open an account at any time with no approval process, your music will be for sale just as soon as you rip and upload it. There is a one time fee of $50 to open your account and then you can sell as much material as you want. Royalties are up to 75% depending on exclusivity and are paid monthly. |
| Propellerheads Reason | A very easy to use sequencer with great software synths, samplers, mixers, reverb, eq:s, matering tools and much more for music production. Both for professionals and hobbyists. |
| Sound Click | SoundClick is a music website that features both signed and unsigned bands.
You will find well-known artists such as Janet Jackson, Sarah McLachlan, Moby, Gravediggaz, PM Dawn, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Letters To Cleo. But SC also offer thousands of great unsigned bands looking for their big break. They offer both free and paid (VIP) services to artists and are growing at an astounding rate. |
| zZounds.com | zZounds is one of America's biggest music retailers and offers a huge variety of equipment and software, including guitars, amps, keyboards and midi, mixing equipment, speakers, microphones, recording software, etc. |
| Ampcast | Ampcast is an excellent source of free mp3 downloads. Artists can earn royalties for downloads of their music and have access to CD creation and marketing tools. This is NOT a free website for artists but for serious musicians is probably worth the cost. |
| CD Baby | CD Baby is a little online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians to the general public. |
| Electromancer! | Music Distribution site for unsigned electronic music only, they offer a free page with a maximum space of 4 uploads or a premier service with unlimited upload space, you can also sell CDs through Electromancer! |
| Indie Contact Bible | These guys sell an incredible book (The Indie Contact Bible) that's jam packed with links to services, articles, marketing tools and tips, etc. If you're serious about promoting your work you need this book. |
| Lady Pantheress Radio | Lady Pantheress Radio is a Live365 internet radio station broadcasting a mix of New Age, Sountrack, Ambient, & Contemporary Instrumental music from independent and signed artists. Site features forums, chat room, music shop, artist biographies, and more. |
| MP3.com.au | The MP3.com.au website hosts thousands of great MP3 files uploaded to the website by artists from around Australia and overseas. Most of the artists are up-and-coming, exciting new acts which you may or may not have heard of before, and they sit alongside some better known artists such as James Morrison. |
| Spirit Canyon | It is our goal to provide the best in vst effects, sound libraries, and exotic software synthesis, available freely or at very reasonable prices. We hope you will enjoy the products we create and find them useful in your musical endeavors. |
| Acid Planet | Acid Planet is the home for about 100,000 electronic musicians and allows artists to upload their work for free. They commonly hold remixing competitions and focus heavily on the software package 'Acid'. Music can be downloaded by the public. |
| Computer Music | Computer Music is the UK's biggest selling music technology magazine. They offer excellent reviews for equipment and software, advanced tutorials, software demos, etc. |
| MusiciansOnly.net | FREE musician classified system. The concept is similar to Craigslist but more tailored for Musicians. You can browse and post ads, you can join forums. The site is dedicated for musicians. |
| Rocket Radio | Rocket Radio is built by independent musicians for independent musicians. We believe there should be more than one way to get ahead in the music industry, and that the artist should have total control of their music. This is the reason we let our artists sell their CD's through us and keep 100% of all their sales! We also offer commercial free independent online radio stations for our listeners |
| HitClick Independent Music Network | Search for new independent artists YOUR way. Read daily MP3 reviews, independent music and artist reviews, music community forums for music lovers, and more. |
| World Wide Song Writers Association | This site has many resources for songwriters. There are two levels of membership - one is free and allows limited uploads, the other is a reasonable fee for 35 uploads. If you upgrade to the paid membership, you get industry reviews, the ability to sell your CD, and many other useful resources. the site is well designed and has a fairly accessible user interface. |
| Acid Video Tutorials | Where you can learn to master your software titles such as Acid Pro, Vegas Video and much more. |
| Artistlaunch | Artistlaunch features free mp3 downloads and is a great site for indie artists to utilize. They feature both free paid services and also make and sell cd's for thier clients. |
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