I Don't Need a Record Deal! Your Survival Guide for the Indie Music Revolution

Thousands of people want to be recording stars, but lack a deal with a record label. While today's musicians have all the tools they need to build a recording career on their own-pro-tools for inexpensive recording and home recording, marketing on the Internet, and opportunities to license their music for use in films, television, advertising, and video games-they don't always have the skills to use them.I Don't Need a Record Deal!is a completely comprehensive step-by-step guide to the new world of independent recording. Drawing on interviews from over 150 musicians and industry pros,Schwartzshows readers how to put out a CD and market it through the media, radio, clubs, and retail. But more importantly, she shows musicians how to create a business around music and to develop opportunities for earning a living. Truly a survival guide for novice and professional musicians alike,I Don't Need a Record Deal!brings information on developing one's own independent music career together, adding new resources and taking the reader into the future of music. • The only book that gives independent musicians everything they need to have a sucessful career • Author's previous Billboard Books,Start and Run Your Own Record Label(0-8230-8433-7) andThe Real Deal(0-8230-8405-1) now in their second editions, sold 30,000 and 20,000 copies respectively in three years in their first editions • Over 150 interviews