You may have heard that SABC is finally starting to pay back the R250million in royalties owed to musicians, so I thought now is a good time to shed some light on how to actually get your royalties. If you're a musician, I'm confident that by the end of this article you will know a lot more about the different royalty collection agencies. You will learn what they do & what you need to do to get what's owed to you. First off, you need to be...
Last week was probably one of my best weeks as an indie artist! I released two songs: 1. Mmu$i Maimane which racked up 800k views across platforms & made the news & 2. Sugarman ft. Mathew Gold which charted at #2 on the iTunes charts. Both songs were turned down by major labels, but I released them anyway by myself - without a label or a PR team. It was very tough work & a flippen' crazy week, but very rewarding at the...
Plugins are great. What are plugins you ask? They're effects units or instruments that you can download from the interwebs, and PLUG them IN to your music software. The only problem is, there are at least 5million plugins out there and most of them suck. I'm going to highlight 6 plugins that I find are really kiff and use on a continual basis. Let me start with the plugins that you can download for FREE :) If you click on the heading, it'll even...
I've been making music for quite a while now. I wouldn't say that I'm an expert producer by any means, but there are 7 things that I've learned along the way that I wish someone had told me when I first started that would've saved me a lot of time and effort. A lot of this stuff might be common knowledge to you, but hopefully there's some tips here that will be of some use to you. I might make some more posts that will go into more detail, but...
