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Halton Rocks 2013 – The Unplugged Album
Halton Rocks 2013 is just around the corner, and we’ve gone and put together an unplugged album that you can purchase to help raise funds for the events chosen charity: The Heswall Disabled Children’s Holiday Fund, which provides free holidays to disabled children aged 9-15 in the North West of England, but in order to do so, they need to raise over £25,000 EACH YEAR! The Halton Rocks 2013 Unplugged Album is here for you to listen to (for free). If you would like to download it, there is no set fee, you can name your own price and...
read moreMakoMusic Karma – Give And You Shall Receive
For those of you that don’t know, here at MakoMusic we let musicians of all shapes and sizes submit music to us, which we then put online for all to see in the hope that it strikes a chord with fellow musicians, who are then compelled to write reviews and leave comments that are filled with praise and constructive feedback. Check out all the great music waiting for review here. We realise that this is something of a utopian notion, expecting this system to work on the sole basis of good karma – “I’ve submitted...
read moreSmall venues no longer require a licence to hold live music events.
Venues in England and Wales with a capacity of less than 200 people will no longer require a licence to stage live music events. This is fantastic news for both musicians and promoters in the North West. The opportunity for more venues to start putting on more live music events should only be seen as good news. In the last 12 months, Liverpool in particular has seen venues like The Masque close it’s doors for good, and others such as The CUC and Mojo changing focus away from live music, not to mention the current battle to help Mellow...
read moreA picture is worth a thousand lyrics
The latest social media/networking device to take a slice of your ever decreasing “spare time pie” is Instagram. Bought by Facebook for the grand total of $1bn, it’s the app which allows users to apply filters to photos taken on their phone and share them via their social networks. It has seen phenomenal growth, amassing more than 30 million users in under two years, and if your band isn’t one of those 30 million users you could be missing out on some great exposure. Ok, so being in a band should probably be more about...
read moreTo Spotify or not to Spotify?
Music distribution is a minefield of opinions and interpretation at the moment: Physical vs Digital. Streams vs Downloads, Demos vs Studio Recordings, Paid vs Subscriptions vs Adverts. But there’s at least one good thing to come from all this confusion – Choice. The power is most certainly in the artist’s hands. As an unsigned artist, it was almost impossible to distribute your music globally 10 years ago, but now, for a moderate fee you can. But which method is the best? iTunes? Spotify? Do you use a combination? Or are...
read moreDIY Success For Unsigned Musicians
At MakoMusic we love hearing about the successes of unsigned artists. Proof that with talent and drive you can achieve something with your talents. For some artist that might just be a few extra fans on facebook, or starting to earn a few quid for playing decent gigs, or maybe making it all the way to the “holy grail” of getting signed… But what if you don’t need to a record deal to get paid? What if you don’t need a publishing deal to get noticed? Let’s face it, the music industry has had some significant...
read moreMakoMusic Overload
You may have noticed that things have been a little bit quiet on the surface of the MakoMusic review section recently. The simple fact of the matter is that we’re really busy, and keeping up with everything at Mako HQ is a tall order. The great thing about MakoMusic is that myself and Sean do it because we love listening to your music and having fun working with musicians just like you. However, we do have to make ends meet and we are very busy working on projects from MakoMusic’s parent companies – MakoMedia and...
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We are always interested to know our readers opinions of the content we publish. Whether it’s a review you disagree with or a new feature you love, let us know what you think. To help us do this, we have added a comment section to the bottom of our posts (there is even one at the bottom of this post.) As well as being able post text comments, you are able to use the following functions. Functions Comment Like Dislike Add Images Subscribe by email Subscribe by RSS When it comes to posting your comments and opinions, you have the option...
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