Welcome to the final installment of Music Industry: The DIY Version. For the past month and a half we’ve been breaking down each of the music industry verticals as described by Pat Corcoran, but the end has come. You should always save the best for last, and we have.
Read MoreWe’re back! If the last instalment in this series was boring to you, this one won’t be much more exciting — but, again, it will be important. Musicians tend to like the law about as much as they like numbers, but they have to deal with it.
Read MoreWe’ve reached the midway point! That’s exciting, but it also means we’ve reached one of the most boring parts of the music industry: business management. Unfortunately, business management is also one of the most necessary parts of the music industry.
Read MoreIn the first part of this series, we talked about the five verticals of the music industry as told by Pat Corcoran. Those are: booking, press, business management, legal, and management. Booking is a fairly simple idea, if difficult to do: you find a venue or a show, and you play there. In some ways, press isn’t much different. You find a blog, and you try to get your music posted. However, press has a lot of nuance to it — Tyler, the Creator knows.
Read MoreIn his interview with Complex, Pat Corcoran aka Pat the Manager, Chance the Rapper’s business partner, discusses what it’s like to work outside of a record label, but still be major. (We major.) Chance’s story is unbelievable. Everything that the partnership does makes the music industry go, “How did he do it?” Reasonably, no one should be able to do what Chance does.
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