Album & Merchandise Manufacturing
Cafe Press
CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic.
Disc Makers
Featuring short-run duplication, complete printing and packaging options, cd & dvd duplicators and printers, or affordable blank CDs and blank DVDs.
Disc Wizards
Disc Wizards, in London UK, specialises in CD, DVD replication and blu-ray duplication.
Fastrax
A local CD manufacturing company based in Ballard.
Oasis CD Manufacturing
Oasis CD Manufacturing was founded in 1987 to be a company people could trust -- an oasis, in fact, in a big, confusing and impersonal business.
Rainbo Records
A one-stop soruce for CD, DVD, vinyl and cassette manufacturing.
REALTIME
Local Seattle company, REALTIME, was founded by Philip "Pip" McCaslin in 1986. Pip has established REALTIME as one of the most prominent media duplication companies in the Northwest. Clients included Popllama Records (The Presidents of the USA, The Posies, Young Fresh Fellows, The Picketts, Fastbacks), DC Comics, Saltmine Creative, Realnetworks, Swamp Mama Johnson, Microsoft Corporation, Corbis Corporation, Fastrax, The Boeing Company, JZK Inc., KCTS, KING, Seattle Opera and Seattle Youth Symphony.
CLUB/FREELANCE MUSICIANS
VENUOLOGY
Musicians review clubs and venues.
Venuology was created to help musicians share information about music venues — alerting them to clubs that don't treat musicians well, and also those that do.
With this website, we hope musicians will have an easier time deciding where to perform — and as a result, that venues will feel more pressure to improve pay, sound quality or other problems. The reviews on this site are written by our users — in other words, musicians! Venue reviews are subjective and you're the best judge of the credibility of each review. Any musician can review a venue he or she has played at — joining Venuology is free and anonymous.
There are over 200 clubs and venues listed in the Seattle/Puget Sound region and ready for your reviews.
Venuology is a project of the American Federation of Musicians, a labor union representing over 90,000 musicians of all genres in North America.
FAIR TRADE MUSIC - Because music IS a day job
Fair Trade Music Seattle on Facebook and Twitter
A grassroots campaign of Portland, Seattle & LA musicians, supported by the Musician's Union Local 99.
Please attend our 2nd general meeting, open to all musicians
WHEN
Monday, November 19th at 7:00 pm
Labor Temple 2800 First Ave, Hall 1 (at the corner of First Ave. & Broad St in downtown Seattle).
Motter Snell, President, Musicians’ Association of Seattle and other industry professionals will participate as a panel.
WHAT
Fair Trade Music is a grassroots campaign of NW musicians, supported by the Musician's Association of Seattle, Local 76-493 AFM and the Musicians’ Union, Local 99 AFM (Portland). Through advocacy, education, and recognition, we are working to:
- BUILD a more sustainable music scene with a higher level of musicianship and professionalism
- EXTEND the same rights to musicians as those of other workers
- FORGE equal partnerships between clubs and musicians
WHY
- The current situation in most music clubs is unsustainable, inequitable and doesn't actually support the creation of great music
- Most club musicians seldom make minimum wage
- Musicians are often expected to bring a majority of fans to their gigs, often through advertising at their own expense
- Musicians often split the door with the club instead of a negotiated fee.
- Music alone cannot support most club musicians
HOW TO SUPPORT FAIR TRADE MUSIC
- By building and promoting a brand of quality music
- By partnering with clubs to help them thrive - without them, musicians don't thrive
- By promoting honest, open, and robust partnerships between venues and musicians
- By helping fans and musicians alike understand the differences between a hobby and a service
- By helping venues understand the long-term lasting value of investing in great music to entertain their patrons
WHO
Fair Trade Music is comprised of a diverse group of union and non-union musicians.
Equipment & Supplies
MARINA MUSIC
4039 arrangements for concert band, jazz ensemble, jazz combo, and vocalists, PLUS recordings, fake books, and methods... all available to order online for same-day shipment!
THE WOODWIND & BRASSWIND
The Woodwind and Brasswind offers the best selection of musical instruments and accessories at the guaranteed best price
Gig Listings & Job Services
Music Jobs USA
The music industry's central point for US professionals and employers.
MusiciansContact.com
The source of paying jobs for 33 YEARS.
Get Music Jobs.com
Join 6,725 other Music professionals receiving free weekly job listings to their inbox every week.
Orchestral Job Openings
AFM Audition Notices
You must have an AFM online password. These are updated on the 1st of each month.
My Auditions
Pay to view
Musical Chairs
Free for musicians
Licensing & A&R Access
Pump Audio
Pump Audio represents the best independent music from around the world, for licensing to advertising, television, film and web clients.
Rumblefish
Rumblefish is a groundbreaking music and technology company. They provide music licensing services to social media and technology companies, movie and TV production studios, advertisers, video game makers and iconic brands worldwide. We are focused on providing cutting-edge solutions to the many intellectual property issues facing social media companies, artists, music labels and publishers.
Taxi
The world's leading independent A&R company helping unsigned bands, artists and songwriters get record deals, publishing deals and placement in films and TV shows.
Musician Communities
iLike/GarageBand.com
Website for Garageband Records - a new record label that signs bands based on reviews from music lovers like you.
IndieMusic.com
One of the main purposes of the site is to give independent bands some free promotion.
Music75.com (French)
Music75 is a new concept of online collaborating music. It allow to members, to promote, share and sell music online. Created by musicians, its vocation is to help artists to promote their talent all over the world in each music genre, and of course to produce them.
Professional Associations
A2IM
American Association of Independent Music - A2IM is an organization of independent music labels that promotes business opportunity, provides advocacy and representation, as well as networking opportunities for the independent label community.
NAMM
National Association of Music Merchants - Originally an organization for music retailers, it eventually inherited most of the members of the American Federation of Independent Music (formerly NAIRD).
RECORDING ACADEMY AT GRAMMY.ORG
Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, producers, engineers and recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY® Awards, The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs.
RIAA
Recording Industry Association of America
IFPI
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide, with a membership comprising some 1400 record companies in 66 countries and affiliated industry associations in 45 countries. IFPI's mission is to promote the value of recorded music, safeguard the rights of record producers and expand the commercial uses of recorded music in all markets where its members operate.
WLA
Washington Lawyers for the Arts (WLA) is a nonprofit service organization dedicated to supporting the arts in Washington state by creating alliances and making legal resources accessible to artists and arts organizations of all disciplines.
Recording
MusicPrep.com
A major resource for Seattle area musicians to find recording studios, rehearsal space, mastering, and more.
RecordingStudioSearch.com
A Pacific Northwest Recording/Mastering Studio Search Engine.
Sheet Music, Used Equipment Etc.
Musicnotes.com
The leading Internet-based sheet music store offering more than 45,000 pieces of digital sheet music.
Classical-music.net
Find cheap, discounted, and used classical cds and sheet music libraries ...
All musical periods from baroque, medieval, modern, 20th century,
romantic, renaissance, french impressionist, and comtemporary, free classical mp3s and mp3 software.
