Meet the artists making fan funding work for them
News: 30th April 2012 by Louise Dodgson under Artist Managers, Record Labels, Selling & Distributing Your Music
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Getting your music out there is no easy task and chasing a record deal is more of an uphill struggle than ever before. In the wake of such tight times for the music industry was borne fan funding services such as Pledge Music and Sellaband to allow talented folks and their fans help each other out.
The Guardian article below chats to a couple of unsigned artists currently using Pledge Music to release their music and discovers why they think such services are a necessary tool in today's music industry...
Related Links
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/29/young-musicians-fan-funding-record-industry?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/amanda-palmer-smashes-kickstarter-target/
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record labels, record deals, record contracts, fan funding, pledge music, unsigned bands, unsigned artists
