Artist Profiles

Post image for New Music Tuesday: May 21, 2013

TuneCore Artists are releasing tons of new music every day. Each week we check out the new TuneCore releases and choose a few at random to feature on the blog.

Is your hit next?

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May 21, 2013 · 0 comments in Artist Marketing,Artist Profiles,Marketing & Promotion,The Industry,Web/Tech

Post image for YouTube Personality Shane Dawson Gives Tips For Growing Your Channel

If you’re a frequent YouTuber-er there’s a very good chance you’re already familiar with Shane Dawson.  Every week he posts videos on his two YouTube channels in the form of impersonations, music video spoofs of popular songs, a Q&A webseries, and vlogs.  With over 850 million video views and almost 4 million YouTube subscribers, we think it’s safe to say Shane knows what he’s doing.

We were able to ask Shane a few questions about how he’s grown his channel…

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May 20, 2013 · 0 comments in Artist Marketing,Artist Profiles,Marketing & Promotion,Videos,Web/Tech

Post image for Let the Music Be Your Guide: Sandra Lilia Velasquez on Songwriting and Success

By Sandra Velasquez

(The post below is from TuneCore Artist Sandra Velasquez.  It appeared originally on Getty Images’ blog.)

I was fifteen when I wrote my first song. It was on the piano. There were no lyrics. I wasn’t a singer back then. I wrote it because I wanted to. It started with a melody and I just kept adding to it. I had no illusions about what writing the song would or could lead to back then. I just felt like it. When I saw others’ reactions to my song, which back then was my immediate family and friends, it encouraged me to write some more…

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May 1, 2013 · 2 comments in Artist Marketing,Artist Profiles,Marketing & Promotion,Songwriting,The Industry,Web/Tech

TuneCore Artists are heating up the stage on The Voice, but NBC isn’t the only network that has TuneCore Artists competing for a win.

Two of the remaining teams on CBS’s The Amazing Race are made up of contestants who have used TuneCore to get their music online: Meghan Camarena and Joey Graceffa, and Caroline Cutbirth and Jennifer Kuhle.

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April 17, 2013 · 0 comments in Artist Marketing,Artist Profiles,Marketing & Promotion,Videos,Web/Tech

Post image for Pony Time’s “Because I Care” Premieres on Spin

Two piece rock band Pony Time—Luke Beetham on bass and vocals and Stacy Peck on drums—is getting quite a bit of buzz leading up to the release of their debut album, Go Find Your Own…

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February 18, 2013 · 0 comments in Artist Marketing,Artist Profiles,Marketing & Promotion,The Industry,Web/Tech

Post image for Rival Schools’ Rolling Stone Song Premiere

After Rival Schools’ guitarist Ian Love left the band in 2003, Chris Traynor joined the lineup and they spent a year writing and recording around New York.

From those sessions came music that the band referred to as their “lost album.” That lost album is now Found, the appropriately named album composed of their lost tracks, remastered…

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February 14, 2013 · 0 comments in Artist Marketing,Artist Profiles,Marketing & Promotion,Web/Tech