There is no question that signing to a respected, successful label can bring you exposure and opportunities that are hard to achieve by yourself. Labels can take your music and amplify its reach, exposing you to a much larger audience and plugging you into the wider infrastructure of booking agents, press and publishing/sync agencies. However, there can be an assumption that signing to a big label is an automatic, golden ticket to success. While a label can often represent a

This article originally appeared on Cari Cole's Standing in the Spotlight blog. As one of the top celebrity vocal coaches in the world, I’ve seen it all. From stars to rock legends and Grammy winners to tens of thousands of emerging independents, one thing is true: You don’t have to have the best voice in the world, but you do have to have a good one. And one that won’t quit on you when it matters. Here are my top seven vocal tricks to make your voice rules the world. 1. Brea

Everyone in the electronic music industry knows there’s dramatically more music being released than there is music that people want to listen to or DJ with. But what happens when one of the biggest online stores for digital music starts pruning their collection? Starting late this year, Beatport is starting a “yearly storage clean-up procedure” to trim their back catalog only of tracks that have never sold. It will start at the end of the previous calendar year – so for insta