How To Be an Independent Artist with No Support

Being an independent artist is one of the most fulfilling things you can do for yourself. You get to create your own music, be artistic, and share what you create with others. You also get to make a huge positive impact on your fans, your friends, your networking circle, and anyone who ever listens to […]

The Top 10 Articles of 2020

I think we can all agree that 2020 was a crazy year. Between the pandemic, civil unrest, and an extra-long election cycle, we’re all ready to move on to 2021. Meanwhile, all this uncertainty opened up the door for some great conversations here on The Crafty Musician, where we got to take a closer look […]

15 Do’s and Don’t’s of Submitting Your Music for Radio Airplay

One of the great things about being an independent musician is that you get to create music and share it with the world. You can impact someone hundreds of miles away and not even know it. That’s the basic purpose of every creative professional and that’s what drives us to keep making music. However, making […]

Free Live Streaming Platforms For Musicians & Singers To Get Paid

For today’s post, we welcome Melvin Wong Founder of LiveKrowd, an online platform to book streaming musicians. For more information about Melvin, see his bio below. Live streaming is becoming the buzzword for musicians and singers who wish to sustain their music career amidst the many cancellations and postponements of music events due to the […]

Singer/Songwriter Career Guide: 5 Things To Do First

My workdays as a full-time singer/songwriter consist of booking gigs, maintaining social media platforms, creating and distributing my music throughout various forms of media, conversing with fans, working with my team, maintaining my website and calendars, practicing, and promotions. Somedays, I work on creating new artwork or new merchandise. Other days I’m busy writing new […]

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