Online Distributors:

Taxi
We’re the world’s leading Independent Artist & Repertoire Company. As a matter of fact, we invented independent A&R more than a decade ago. Since 1992, TAXI has specialized in giving artists, bands, and songwriters real access to the people in the music business who have the power to sign deals.

Musician Resources:

Art For Musicians
My name is Jerry Macdonell, I currently reside in Vestal, NY. Abducted by small rodents as a youth and living in a small upstate town called Kirkwood, I was trained to be an engineer but by choice I instead settled into the drab twenty year routine of computer geek. Over the years something deep within struggled for life. I have pursued creative contemplations in the mediums of ink, acrylics, oils, photography, digital design (both bitmap works as well as pure 3D modelling) and stop-motion animation far into the late evening hours over the last ten years.

Band Name Registry
Established since 1997 Bandname.com is the music industry standard for registration of band names. Band name registration helps your band establish whether the name is uniquely yours and assist in consolidating its awareness.Billboard Magazine Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis. Among the two most important charts, the “Billboard Hot 100″, ranks the top 100 songs regardless of genre and is frequently used as the standard measure for ranking songs in the United States, while the “Billboard 200″ survey is the corresponding chart for album sales.

BMI
BMI is a performing right organization: It collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.BMI currently represents some more than 6.5 million compositions — a number that is constantly growing. As a result, BMI has, over the years, sought out and implemented a number of technological innovations in its continuing effort to gather the most accurate information available about where, when and how its members’ compositions are used as well as ensuring that payment to those whose works have been performed is made in as precise and timely a manner as possible.

Focus Mastering
Mastering is an important part of the production process. It can bring out the best in any mix and unify a record. It is not an “add-on” or additional service here. It’s what I do. Using experience, objectivity, and great gear I’ll give your record the touch it deserves. I am a full service mastering studio and can fulfill all of your stereo audio mastering needs.The studio was designed specifically for mastering. It utilizes velocity-type bass trapping as well as the new RPG pressure zone bass trapping for smooth, extended low frequency response. The reflection free zone extends all the way to the client couch and provides a wide, accurate, and enveloping sound field. It’s the only one of it’s kind in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Get Signed
Getsigned.com, Inc. was created in 1996 by musician and entrepreneur Shawn Fields to be a place where aspiring artists of all kinds could find, in one convenient location, all the necessary tools needed for musical success.

Musicians Atlas
Music Resource Group (MRG) creates resources, interactive tools and programs for all members of the independent music community. With The Musician’s Atlas, the best-selling contact/networking directory; the AtlasOnline, an interactive contact & music biz management tool; the Independent Music Awards, a program that delivers real opportunities to indie artists, labels & releases; MRG helps artists, music biz entrepreneurs & other industry professionals to make, market & sell music more successfully.

Musicians Friend
Currently, Musician’s Friend offers over 36,000 products in its mail order catalogs and on its website, musiciansfriend.com. Products offered include guitars, basses, keyboards, percussion, amps, as well as recording, mixing, lighting, and DJ gear. Hundreds of new products are added monthly as the company continues to broaden and deepen its offerings. Musician’s Friend still offers money-back satisfaction and price guarantees on every purchase and prides itself on having a topflight staff of customer service people who live and breathe the products they sell. The Musician’s Friend Website is easy and intuitive to navigate and its speedy search engine makes finding what you need a cinch. With a centralized warehouse strategically located for fast delivery, shipping time is minimized. To request a free catalog, surf to musiciansfriend.com or call 800-391-8762 Open 24/7.

The Recording Academy
Nearing 50 years of celebrating music through the GRAMMY Awards, The Recording Academy continues its rich legacy and ongoing growth as the premier outlet for honoring achievements in the recording arts and supporting the music community.
The GRAMMYs are the only peer-presented award to honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.

Ultimate Band List
Established by ARTISTdirect, Inc. in 1994, the Ultimate Band List (UBL.com) began as an award-winning, all-inclusive music portal and search engine, with resource links for industry professionals, musicians and recording artists. Together with its sister site, ARTISTdirect.com, UBL.com became a leading online destination for music industry experts and casual fans alike, featuring thousands of free music videos and downloads, an online database of more than 500,000 artists, a full-service online shopping mall of CDs and related music merchandise, and a vast directory of record labels, meta sites, online events, magazines and e-zines, venues, festivals, radio stations and digital download services.
Working Man Productions

Working Man’s Productions
Professional Audio Mastering for CD and Web
Come to Working Man’s Productions for all your CD Audio and Online Audio mastering needs. Listen to our award winning samples. Enjoy our acclaimed customer service and 100% Money back guarantee (that’s right, you don’t pay a dime until you hear your mastered content). We’ll beat the sound and price of any other online mastering service … guaranteed.

Tradeshows:

CMJ
CMJ Network connects music fans and music industry professionals with the best in new music through interactive media, live events and print. CMJ.com offers a digital music discovery service, information resources, and community to new music fans, professionals, and artists. CMJ Events produces the legendary CMJ Music Marathon, the largest and longest-running music industry event of its kind, in addition to live events and tours across the USA. The weekly music business trade magazine CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ New Music Monthly, the first consumer magazine to include a bound-in CD sampler, is the leading publication for the emerging music enthusiast. CMJ Access is an integrated marketing agency specializing in providing its clients unparalleled access to the college and young adult demographic and emerging music world. Log on to www.cmj.com for more information about all of CMJ’s products and services.

Folk Alliance
olk Alliance is the service association for the field, and works on behalf of the folk music and dance industry year round. Our advocacy efforts tackle issues important to the folk arts community. We offer a business directory of contacts for members, and a non-profit group exemption program for US-based organizations. We are forming strategic partnerships with allied organizations to increase our voice in support of the arts on a grassroots and international level. Our goals are to increase access to needed resources for our members, and to expand to the breadth of the folk music and dance experience for the general public. We do the work we do on the international level so that our members in the field can do their work in their local areas more efficiently, with wider impact, and more profitably.

Gospel Music Association
To expose, promote and celebrate the Gospel through music. Founded in 1964, the Gospel Music Association serves as the face and voice for the Christian/Gospel music community and is dedicated to exposing, promoting and celebrating the gospel through music of all styles including pop, rock, praise & worship, black gospel, R&B, hip hop, southern gospel, country, and more. The GMA community consists of 4,000 members includes agents, artists, church leaders, managers, promoters, radio personnel, record company executives, retailers, songwriters, and other industry visionaries. The GMA produces the GMA Dove Awards, GMA Music Week, GMA Music in the Rockies, and the GMA Academy.

SXSW
South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc.) is a private company based in Austin, Texas, with a year-round staff of professionals dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals. Since 1987, SXSW has produced the internationally recognized Music and Media Conference & Festival. In 1994 as the entertainment business adjusted to issues of future growth and development, SXSW added conferences and festivals for the film industry (SXSW Film) as well as for the blossoming interactive media (SXSW Interactive Festival). Now three industry events converge in Austin during a Texas-sized week, mirroring the ever increasing convergence of entertainment/media outlets. In addition to the SXSWeek events, SXSW is also involved in North by Northeast (NXNE), held in Toronto, Canada in late Spring, in association with NOW, an alternative newsweekly in Toronto.

Misc:

Cardboard CD Displays
We provide companies with the specialized expertise needed to design and produce large runs of sophisticated point of purchase displays. We can save you time, money and mistakes on your next display project and we can ensure a successful display roll out. We’ve been doing so for major clients since 1978.

Radio Promotion
We are a full service radio promotion company that has been in business since 1985. Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. has been helping artists (both independent and signed) reach their goals of obtaining radio airplay, expanding their fan base, and creating awareness throughout the industry.

Verity Systems
CD DVD duplicator equipment, Disc Printers and Media Packaging & Wrapping Equipment .