Musicians Share Advice for Sustaining a Life Making Songs

This isn’t metal-specific, but I know it will interest a lot of you: The Fader has a new article in which five musicians share their tips for how to make a living in this not-exactly-reliable business.

Here’s a sample tip from one of the musicians, Brenmar (no I don’t know what that is, either), which echoes advice I know we’ve been giving you pretty much forever — UPLOAD YOUR WORK TO ALL POSSIBLE CHANNELS!!!

“If you find yourself with a hot remix that people are playing out then you need to make sure that remix is on Spotify, iTunes, and all official channels of digital music distribution. Upload that baby to YouTube, enable ads and get those streaming pennies because if your remix makes it into the million plays mark (I know…a million!) you might actually see some real dough. Then try and channel any buzz into some live gigs—that’s real money in your pocket that month, not six months to a year later as is the case with digital sales/streaming.”

Read the rest of these pro-tips here.

[via Converse Rubber Tracks]