Share Coast 2 Coast Music Industry Mixer is a monthly event put on by Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes featuring a Artist Showcase, Vinyl DJ Battle, Model Contest, Featured Performers and Industry Panel of Judges. Networking is always the key to success, especially in the music business. Attending all the insider music industry events is a [...]

Share I use Dropbox daily as a tool to manage and share files from multiple locations and coordinate them. Every computer I have has Dropbox installed so I can save a document from any computer and access it from any computer as well. When paired with the iPhone app or Blackberry application the tool becomes [...]

Share Tadcast offers a unique solution for musicians looking to advertise their music as well as viral video producers. The concept is unique, musicians can pay to place their songs in the viral videos of YouTube sensations on a PPC basis. Raising the question of how many artists will pay to feature their songs in [...]

Share In Urban music most new artists want that “Hot” feature on their record.  That is all well and fine, but let’s start with the basics of getting the single ready for the feature.  If you have taken the time to produce and write a hit song on your own, then a feature should only [...]

Share Coast 2 Coast New Music Industry Convention Announced for August 27th-29th in Miami, FL Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes & Magazine announce the 2nd Annual Coast 2 Coast Convention to take place in Miami, FL August 27th-29th. The conference will be attended by a large list of music industry guests and sponsors such as iStandardProducers.com, [...]

Share DJ Coalitions have always been a staple of the music industry, mostly for behind the scenes.  A record literally can NOT be broken to major airplay without the assistance of the DJs and by association, the DJ coalitions.  In today’s industry, the DJ is ever more important as a fragmented industry has to be [...]

Share The New Music Seminar was a legendary event, slated to return for the first time in 15 years in New York City for a few days only. Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Records started the seminar in the eighties to define where the industry was going, now he restarts the conference with the same [...]

Share For all those out there that have always dreamed of having their own radio station we have found the easiest solution, Live365.  The internet radio service has over 6000 stations run by independent programmers like yourselves, not preprogrammed commercial garbage.  The ease of access allows real people to play real music 24/7 to a [...]

Share If your initial response to the title question is “I don’t have one”, “I don’t need one” or even “I don’t want one”, then you should definitely reevaluate your goal to be successful in this business and consider a career checking vital signs or flipping burgers; because a gimmick is the second most important [...]

Share Hootsuite is a great platform that allows a business, brand, or celebrity to easily manage and track multiple social networks, most notably Twitter.  The software also manages: Facebook, Facebook Pages, LinkedIN, WordPress, Myspace, Foursquare, and Ping.fm.  We use their platform to schedule Tweets across multiple platforms with uniform links and branding messages.  This allows [...]