HAMMERHEAD BLOG

HAMMERHEAD BLOG presents a candid discussion pertaining to the ever evolving Music Industry. Written exclusively by Mark “The Shark” Druery. This series of articles covers everything from how to get your music on Satellite Radio to how to set up your own Regional Tour. No matter if you’re a seasoned professional or a DIY Artist looking to make your statement to the world, HAMMERHEAD BLOG covers it all.

2022 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

2022 in retrospect was perhaps an underwhelming year for a lot of music enthusiasts, as many of the trends we started to see pop up towards the beginning of 2020 more or less solidified into cultural standards in the past year, but for those with a taste for the eclectic, …

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2021- A YEAR IN REVIEW

At the start of 2021, there was a lot of concern over what kind of a year it was going to be in music. 2020’s concert culture was crushed under the weight of a pandemic, and while much of the same persisted into this past year, this didn’t stop the …

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Give Your Music Wings With Song-Angel

The modern business of making music starts online, and when it comes to networking with quality professionals, Song Angel knows no equal. Setting up an account with Song Angel is free and takes a fraction of the time it does to start up the average social media profile, and with …

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2020 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

2020 was the most unpredictable of years, but if you think it was without one heck of a strong soundtrack, you definitely haven’t been keeping up with the Indieshark release radar in the past twelve months. Aside from incredible mainstream sounds from The Weeknd, a maturing Taylor Swift, the compelling …

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2019 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

2019 was a landmark year for independent music on multiple fronts, and while there have been no shortage of intriguing trends to follow in the last twelve months, certain movements – surreal pop, the reprisal of melodic hip-hop and self-aware country music among them – were simply impossible to ignore. …

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Barcodes

I recently attended a SWSW Music and Media Conference in Austin Texas. The first day I was there I witnessed a punk band walk over to give a Top Music Executive one of their latest CD’s following a hot live performance. Everything was going fine until she turned the CD …

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PRO Affiliation

So we’re not talking about PRO as in “music professional”. The PRO we’re going to look at in this installment is an acronym for Performance Rights Organization.  A PRO is one of several organizations that are highly beneficial to producers, songwriters and musicians and if you’re a studio owner or operator, …

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