Music School

How To Understand Royalties

Cash Flow

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Copyright is the Ganges, the holy river from which all royalty streams flow. To carry on the riparian metaphor, some of them are wee rivule...

The Write Stuff

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Once upon a time, there were songwriters, and there were performers. As a songwriter in the pre-radio dancehall days, you sold your songs t...

How (and When) to Get a Manager

Where Organisers and Enthusiasm Meet

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Truthfully, everything you need to know about band management — the good, the bad, and the bad-blues-jam ugly — can be divined from a timel...

How to Get Your Band Out of Canada

Get in the Van

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

As an up-and-coming Canadian band, you can only drive across Northern Ontario so many times (I’d argue just the once) before feeling the ne...

Not Suck

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Experiments in noise trauma aside, the point of a band is to sound great. It starts with great songs, of course, but if you don’t have it d...

How to Make a No Budget Video

Make Me a Star!

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

A current smash hit on YouTube by the relatively unknown band OK Go features a static shot of the band performing complex but funny choreog...

How to Put on a Show

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

If you’re playing a large city with a vibrant club scene, concert promotion is generally best left to the pros: promoters who work several...

Trevor Anderson

The High Dials

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

Trevor Anderson, front-man for Montreal's the High Dials, has first-hand experience with the confusion that ensues when two bands have simi...