The Self-Released Album

In what seems like a past life, the only way to release an album was through a record label. The label had the money to pay for your recording, the ability to distribute it around the world, and the marketing resources to make sure people knew your album was hitting the stores.

Today, any resourceful individual with a little bit of money and a lot of creativity can make an album commercially available to the same number of people as the major label.

Read the introduction to the series.