How To Contact Music Agencies

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How Can I Work With Music Agencies?

 

Many artists want to know if they will be able to connect with music agencies if they don’t live in a traditional “music” town.

 

At first, there were the major music cities and if you wanted to meet people, you’d have to be from New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Nashville, London etc..

 

Then, cities evolved that began to produce incredible music and were subsequently lauded much importance:

 

Glasgow, Austin, Iceland, Nebraska, Paris, Seattle, Toronto, Berlin, Cologne etc….

 

Living far away from any of the cities above, it's definitely harder to reach out to music agencies, and it makes the network much harder to tap into in general.

 

An incredible advantage that we now have is that the internet is so available to us all.

 

Even without the internet, the good news is that it's not as bad as it used to be.

 

Imagine being in a tiny town, far from anywhere.

if you focus your live efforts in your local area and you can use social networking sites that allow music to be published to have a presence online. when you can perform your material really well and have ironed its kinks out by playing in front of relevant people its just a matter of time before people will be telling others about you and getting them to your shows.

connecting with a massive group of music lovers has never been easier because you can post your material online for all to share.

 

If there’s a local fan base for you to tap into - go for it.

its about putting your music center stage and the doing whatever you can to draw attention to it.

 

Once you have this local scene locked down, you are then in a position to reach out to your nearest larger town - this doesn't guarantee you will get on the radar of a music agency, but may help to get you closer because if you build a fan-base, they will eventually hear about you.

 

But wait!You dont need to play live or have any fans.a band i worked with personally were able to attract the attention of music agencies.

 

They were making songs at home in their bedroom and sent one to their favorite blog.whilst browsing the internet a record label executive found the track on the blog and signed it.the industry began to chase them and they ultimately ended up working with a fantastic agent who got them shows and a big record deal.

 

There are so many examples where bands that were far from the music epicenters were able to do really well.

 

As far as I can tell, Las Vegas is not a “music town”, and Brandon Flowers from The Killers even left his original band because they wanted to move to Los Angeles (a “music town”).

 

Leaving his former band,Flowers was then able to focus on a new act with Dave Keuning resulting in The Killers - all while based in Las Vegas.

 

Some people assume that music agencies will only work with larger established acts, and thats simply not true.

 

Starting off, many agents work very closely with the band.

you mark out a course.

 

When they believe in what you are doing, they will stick their neck out for you and pull favors etc in the hope for your loyalty when you blow up.

 

Giving upcoming bands the platform to start from, and

putting on the initial smaller shows, the music agencies dont make any money, but they get the profile and satisfaction of having found an artist and nurtured it.

 

Dont be afraid to begin dialogue with music agencies, they want you to be just as successful as you want to be.

Let people come to you and dont appear to be too needy keep yourself solely focused on playing well and attracting more fans.