Your Friends
The idea behind Cover Your Artz came after much touring into new areas with different bands. Finding sound engineers, lighting people, poster distro etc is easier when you know someone in that area to call. But what if you don’t know anyone where you are going to? What if you are only finding the available person on that night and not the right person for that job? What if you have been playing sticky carpet venues and suddenly are now playing festivals... who are the right people to call? So here we are... We love to hear your thoughts about what you think of this website... Feel free to send us feedback on the form.People you have worked with:
Collection Societies:
APRA - AMCOS Australasian Performing Right Association - Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society
PPCA Phonographic Performance Company of Australia
ASCAP - The American Society of Composers, Authors And Publishers (collection society - USA)
BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc (collection society - USA)
PPL - (collection society - UK)
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers - An umbrella organisation for collection societies around the world.
Performing Rights Society - PRS collects and distributes license for the public broadcast and performance of musical works.
Unions:
MEAA - Symphony orchestra rates
MEAA - Tania Hardy-Smith's Paper (ICSOM Conference 2005)
Music Arrangers Guild of Australia Inc
Musician's Union of Australia
Live Performance Australia (formally AEIA)
Money and Finance:
Australian Council for the Arts
Grants Link - online grants finder
Arts Law Centre of Australia
Regional Arts Online
International:
The Worldwide Band Name Registry
International Online Music Store
MMusic (Australian Music on line)
Austrade Export - Helping Australians do business around the world.
Taxi - The World's leading independent A&R company (their words not ours)
Business:
ABN Registration:
Australian Business Register
Australian Business Info
Business Name Registration Victoria
Business Name Registration New South Wales
Business Name registration Queensland
Business Name Registration ACT
Business Name Registration Tasmania
Business Name Registration South Australia
Business Name Registration Western Australia
Business Name Registration Northern Territory
WorkCover:
Victoria
South Australia
New South Wales
Queensland
Western Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
Northern Territory
Articles of Interest:
The Music - Always something of interest
Undercover - Your Daily Music Fix
Indie Initiative
Australian Music Therapy Association
The Music Council of Australia The Training of Contemporary Popular Musicians - by Michael Hannan
Simpson Lawyers - Industry news and resources
Common Conundrums - Arts Law of Australia
Audiology Australia - Prevention of hearing loss
Support Act of Australia - Australia's Music Industry Benevolent Fund
Music Technology Handouts - Record Producer
Environmental:
Sound Emissions - Practical information and tips to help reduce the climate impacts of your gig, festival or tour
Musical Equipment:
Music Link Australia
Electric Factory
Billy Hyde Stage Systems
Alchemix - Brisbane online Music Directory
Industry Resources:
All Music Guide - a music industry reference/resource site
Digitalmusician.net - an online community for international music businesses to meet and collaborate on joint projects
Mashable - a social media guide for artists and music industry professionals
Mixcloud - an online radio and podcast promotion tool
Music IP - a resource/tool for anyone involved in music distribution and sales
OneLlama - an online tool to allow digital media aggregators to assist their customers in navigating and finding new music
Band/Muso Resources:
Artistlog - a medium to facilitate communication between artists and fans
Bandcamp - a resource for bands to set up their own online store
BandChemistry - an online community for musicians to find bands and visa versa
Bandmix - an online community for musicians to find bands and visa versa
Disc Revolt - offers redeemable plastic cards to artists, to be sold to fans, who can use a unique code to download free songs
FanBridge - free mailing list management for email and mobile phones
Music Nation - an online promotion tool for independent and unsigned bands
ProjectOpus - raising awareness of local acts from all over the world
PumpAudio - a digital agent, connecting musicians with buyers and licensing opportunities
PureVolume - a social networking site devoted to musicians and bands
Sellaband - connects bands with fans, and offers fans the chance to invest in the music that they love
Sideload - an online digital music aggregator
Slicethepie - allows artists to raise money from their fans online. Allows fans to buy "shares" in bands.
Snocap - an online distribution service
Song Twit - allows you to share your music via social media such as youtube and Twitter
Twiturm - allows artists to share their music via Twitter
Online Radio:
Radeo - an online radio and podcast database
Shoutcast - an internet radio database
Slacker - online radio
Stage.fm - online radio
Online Communities:
AudioPyro - a social networking site specifically for independent artists
Babulous - a user-supported music sharing community
Bandbuzz - an online community where users can discover new, upcoming and independent bands
ChartU - a place for bands to upload their songs, and for people to listen to new music
Fairtilizer - an online community where users can search for artists, build playlists and incorporate those playlists into their social networking profiles
Grooveshark - an online community that rewards users for actively recommending, reviewing and sharing their music
Hooka - an online community that acts as both a networking site and a music store. Almost like the lovechild of myspace and itunes
iJigg - iJigg is an online music database for indie bands
iMeem - an online music community
Indie911 - an online media and social networking site
Jamendo - allows users to download and share full albums for free
JukeboxAlive - a music based social networking site
LaLa - an online music sharing service
Mog - an online social song-sharing/recommending community
Mp3.com - a music-based social networking site
MusicBrainz - a free, user-generated metadata database
Music.com - a music-based social networking site
MusoCity - a music-based social networking site
The Next Big Sound - allows users to become music industry moguls by listening to unsigned bands' demos
Phling - an online music, podcast and picture sharing community that allows you to stream your music on your mobile phone
Qloud - a digital music player and online community
Rate Your Music - an online metadata database
ReverbNation - a digital meeting place for musicians, music industry professionals and fans
Spool.fm - an online music sharing community
thesixtyone - allows artists to upload their music and have fans vote on and review their songs
Twones - an online people matching service based on musical taste
Zooped - an online music-based networking service
Search Engines:
Audiobaba - a music search engine based on acoustic properties of songs
Project Playlist - a music-specific search engine
SeeqPod - an online music database
Songlist - an online discography service
Yahoo Music - a music streaming service that allows you to search and create your own playlists
Music Recommendation / Playlist Services:
AudioLunchbox - a music download site focused on smaller and local bands
Bands That Sound Like - input a band and receive a list of other similar-sounding bands
Blip - a playlist builder tailored to your tastes
Critical Metrics - a recommendation site, listing hundreds of new and recommended musicians and songs
The Echo Nest - a music search and recommendation site
Epitonic - an online playlist building and music download site
Finetune - a playlist building tool
Fiql - an online playlist sharing community
Flyfi - an automatic playlist sharing and recommendation site
Gnoostic Music Map - a music recommendation site
Hypster - a playlist sharing website
iLike - recommends music based on your listening habits and those of your friends
Midomi - an online social media community that allows users to search for music by singing or humming a line/tune
Musiclovr - a music recommendation site
Musicmobs - linked with Rhapsody, Musicmobs provides you with information about new bands according to your tastes
Musicovery - allows users to visually explore and listen to music online
MusicPortl - a music reference database featuring information on almost every band that ever existed
Mystrands - a site for people who want to discover new music, rather than to just listen to it online
Pandora - a music recommendation site based on your favourite bands
Riffin - a free music database and playlist service
Tuneglue - an online music recommendation service
Last.fm - an online music recommendation service
Upto11 - an online music recommendation and recovery service
ZuKool Music - an online music recommendation service
Music Stores:
AOL Music - a music portal: listen to or buy music online
Magnatune - listen to full albums of independent artists with an option to purchase
Other:
Archive.org - an online database of public domain music
BetterPropaganda - an online music zine featuring thousands of free downloads
CC Mixer - a Creative Commons resource that allows you to remix songs and post your results
Dot.Tunes - allows users to gain remote access to computers within their network for the sharing of files and music
Intua - a mobile music studio app for iPhone and iPod Touch
Jambase - allows users to upload a list of their favourite artists, and Jambase then tracks them and provides email updates with the latest news
nu Tsie - upload your entire iTunes playlist to a nu Tsie account, and then listen to your playlists anywhere you can find a connected computer
Remix Wizard - allows users to create their own remixes and tracks
Shazam - music recognition technology that allows you to use your mobile to recognise songs that you don't
Song Tapper - allows you to discover information about songs by tapping the rhythm on your computer keyboard
The Hype Machine - a database of mp3 links from music blogs
Tunefind - allows you to find music from TV or movies
uPlayMe - an add-on for a digital music player that allows you to communicate with people listening to the same music as you
ZaZiggy - provides free advertiser-supported downloads to users
