Berklee Press Featured Partners
Berklee Press has partnered with some of the greatest music sites on the Web to bring valuable resources to musicians, vocalists, music business professionals, producers, songwriters and more.
MusicBizAdvice - provides music industry information in an accessible way to aspiring recording artists and aspiring music industry professionals. MusicBizAdvice is also an active supporter of college internship programs and mentoring programs and a supporter in efforts to save historic music venues and other places of interest in entertainment history and Los Angeles history.
Dmusic - Aside from being the oldest online digital music community, DMusic is a hosting platform for artists. Musicians can plug their Web sites into the DMusic platform, enabling them to add far more interactive components to their website than they normally could. DMusic.com also provides digital music news, reviews, information and a highly interactive environment for users to interact with their favorite DMusic musicians and other DMusic users.
Songramp - A new music community focused on the creative aspects of music. The name implies a place where songs and songwriters can advance (ramp) based upon their merit. The site is geared toward creating income opportunities for independent artists and songwriters by bringing them closer to their fans. Features around the site are designed to allow members to develop relationships with a broad range of people in the industry from fans to record labels.
Stretch the Skies - Their mission is to put as many top quality, practical resources in front of musicians as possible. They want to share what they know about the industry and how to navigate it with musicians who are trying to build their careers. They provide integral services for artists and try to keep their prices reasonable, or even lower, without sacrificing quality.
recording.org - Recording Org is in the interactive business of attracting, organizing, networking and storing pro audio content and services (not personal information) for the public. Recording Org is a leading content management system recognized as having world class recording information. Recording.org is made up of real musicians, studio engineers, pro audio designers, manufacturers and recording enthusiast from around the world.
Music and Technology - Stephen Sherrard has been a professional music producer and recording engineer for over 12 years. This site is his way of giving back to musical community by sharing the knowledge that he has gained in his work. He even personally answers as many questions as he can.
Independent Musician's Network - The people at Independent Musicians Network will give you great resources to expand your music creativity, resources for finding premier brand instruments at the lowest prices, access to 100s of CD vendors, promoters for your music, and MP3 sites to upload and sell your music, pointers on how to build an international fan base and how to work with international record labels, tips on how to achieve professional quality recordings nad productions, resources for getting your music played on local and internet radio, and more.
Music Books Plus - Music Books Plus is a mail-order service operated by Norris-Whitney Communications who has been providing information services to the Music Industry for the past 26 years. The catalog has grown tremendously over the past few years and we are proud to feature thousands of books, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs and software on the areas of: music business, songwriting, instrument instruction, audio & video production, recording, broadcast, lighting, voice, The Internet, multimedia, The Charts, biographies... and much more. We now have customers in over 86 countries worldwide and we also exhibit at major trade and consumer shows in the United States and Canada.
Play Jazz Guitar - Whether you are into playing and learning guitar or simply reading about your favorite players you'll find something of interest here. There are plenty of free guitar lessons, and the members area is filled with free articles, interviews and guitar lessons. Chris Standring developed jazz guitar course of his own called Play What You Hear, and there is also a very popular jazz guitar forum to discuss anything guitar related.
A & R Online - A&R Online is the new way to grab record industry attention! It's about getting seen and signed. A&R Online is an organization that deals with major and independent record labels on a daily basis. Companies need to be in touch with what is going on at street level when it comes to new artists. A&R Online is that direct connection. Record company reps will peruse the database looking for artists and groups that might be suitable to add to their roster, without having to leave their office chair to do so.
Musical America - Musical America is the best way to keep your finger on the pulse of the international music industry, with Industry News on people in the arts, competitions and awards, reviews, Directory articles on the latest breaking news, listings, and more.
