LibGuides: The Indie Bible: Home

The Indie Bible is a music resource that helps independent artists with their music promotion, indie marketing campaigns, finding a record deal, getting reviews, radio airplay, distribution and radio promotion. The Indie Bible is a suite of resources that includes The Indie Bible Online, The Indie Bible, Indie Venue Bible: Articles and the Indie Venue Bible (which includes directories to music venues across the US and Canada).

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Indie Bible Online (search)

Indie Bible Online
The Indie Bible Online directory lets you search: digital music distributors, digital music websites, distributors, internet radio/podcast, labels, music blogs, music reviewers, music supervisors, promotional/marketing services, and more.

Indie Bible 2019 and Indie Bible Reports

These reports are available exclusively to the Berklee Community and require a Berklee email for access.

Ultimate Guide Indie Bible 2019
The Indie Bible is a valuable promotional tool for independent musicians and songwriters that features:
1100 magazines that will review your music!
4200 radio stations that will play your songs!
900 music blogs that will feature your music
1100 labels and distributors that will help you to sell your music!
1000 promotion, marketing, management, PR and publicity services!
400 sites where you can upload your band's MP3s or videos!
95 articles that will help your music career to succeed!
Ultimate Guide to Promoting your Music: Articles
Includes 95 articles on various music business topics including: Digital music, Band and press kit essentials,
music licensing for film, TV, advertising , games and new media. Legal: how to copyright your music, trademark your band name, trademarking you logo, written agreement amongst band members and how to sell downloads of cover songs. Marketing and Promotion: How to be your own publisher, Music Marketing Strategies and more!
Ultimate Guide to Booking Gigs
Everything you need to know about booking a gig and touring.
Including but not limited to finding the right venue, planing tour, booking agents, “how to get paid what you’re worth”, contracts, college gigs; “how to navigate the educational market”, promotion and how to build your fan base.

Indie Spotify Bible

Indie Spotify Bible
Indie Spotify Bible provides you with detailed contact information for over 3,000 popular Spotify playlists. Each playlist is categorized by genre so you can easily contact the curators that welcome your specific style of music. Playlist listings include a brief descriptions and all of the available contact information for the curator, including location, contact name, e-mail, website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Independent Artist's Guide to Spotify
This educational guide is a collection of 30 articles written by Spotify experts, so that you can optimize your personal marketing strategies.
Topics include:
* How to get your music on Spotify
* What a playlist curator is
* How to approach curators with your music
* What curators are looking for in your pitch
* How to build your following on Spotify
* Release strategies for success
* How the Spotify algorithm finds new tracks
* How to create your own playlist

The Indie Venue Bible (US and Canada)

Canadian (Venue Guide) 2019
Newfoundland, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, Yukon, PEI, Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, NW Territories, New Brunswick
US North Central (Venue Guide) 2019
Minnesota, Idaho, Alaska, Washington, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming
US-North East 2019 (Venue Guide)
New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Main, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Vermont
US North West (Venue Guide) 2019
Minnesota, Idaho, Alaska, Washington, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming
US South Central (Venue Guide) 2019
Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
US South East (Venue Guide) 2019
Washington DC, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina
South West (Venue Guide) 2019
Nevada, California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona