Right Chord Music was founded with a simple aim. To bring the discipline of brand marketing to band and artist marketing. We provide music production, marketing, distribution & management services. We also produce the RCM blog, Lost On Radio podcast and RCM Hangout Sessions to champion incredible new music. Right Chord Music. Registered UK Trademark No. 2607338
Band Of The Week. Let's Go Safari

Band Of The Week. Let’s Go Safari

Bournemouth five-piece Let’s Go Safari are a band suitably named, offering as much excitement and diversity in their music, as in any travel adventure. Taking you on a journey with every song they sing, the band have been on somewhat of an expedition themselves of late. After recently gaining two...
The Music Marketing Manifesto. Ten Principles For Success

The Music Marketing Manifesto. Ten Principles For Success

1. Write, record and play high quality music It seems like an obvious thing to say, but everything starts & ends with the music. If the songs are poor, the recording is bad, and the live show is dull don’t expect to make a living from music. 2. Continue to only...
#RCMHangout Session 5. Daughters Of Davis

#RCMHangout Session 5. Daughters Of Davis

We’re absolutely delighted to announce that the 5th Right Chord Music Hangout Session will feature Daughters Of Davis. It’s about time we bought some soul to the RCM Hangout Sessions. Watch the live streaming gig here at Right Chord Music from 9pm on Friday 17th May. We’ve been mildy obsessed...
Right Chord Music. Discounts & Benefits

Right Chord Music. Discounts & Benefits

We are building a package of discounts and benefits to support every new, independent and unsigned band or artist that visits Right Chord Music. Right Chord Music was set up to provide a voice and a promotional platform for the music we love. The kind of music which so often...
Right Chord Music. The Hangout Sessions

Right Chord Music. The Hangout Sessions

Here at Right Chord Music we’ve always been interested in running our own live night, but we wanted to do it in our own way to help new bands, everywhere, get their music heard. To get it ‘just right’ a live night needs all of the following; The right venue...
The Lost On Radio Podcast

The Lost On Radio Podcast

Getting your music on the radio is difficult, playlists are highly controlled and music is pitched by radio pluggers working on behalf of labels. For artists without label support or the budgets to hire radio pluggers, opportunities are limited. Presented by Andy Mort and curated by Mark Knight and Andy Mort The Right Chord...
RCM Interview. Hit Songs Deconstructed Founder & Editor-In-Chief David Penn

RCM Interview. Hit Songs Deconstructed Founder & Editor-In-Chief David Penn

As the name suggest Hit Songs Deconstructed is a website dedicated to analysing the structure and composition of hit songs. The insight from this analysis is used to help mentor new song-writing talent. Mark caught up with Founder and Editor-In-Chief David Penn to find out more. From all of your research...
Three Things Bands Can Learn From Brands About Customer Relationship Management

Three Things Bands Can Learn From Brands About Customer Relationship Management

In the business world, a whole industry has been established around ‘customer relationship management’ or CRM. Fancy acronym, but what’s it really mean and how does it apply to you and your music career? In basic terms, CRM is a plan to understand and manage a brand’s relationship with customers....
Advertise On Right Chord Music

Advertise On Right Chord Music

Whether you’re a brand, band or label we can help you promote your latest release, tour or services to passionate new music supporters. Advertising on the Right Chord Music is quick and easy. We offer display advertising via banners and medium rectangle adverts, we also offer advertorials/promotional articles (these have to...
Pay As You Go Management

Pay As You Go Management

Right Chord Music currently manages The Daydream Club, and provides ad-hoc support to numerous other independent and unsigned artists including Blackchords who we continue to champion. If you are interested in The Daydream Club, please visit our contact page. We welcome messages from labels, publishers, promoters, journalists, music fans or indeed anybody who...
What’s The Story? The Value Of Story Telling In Music Promotion

What’s The Story? The Value Of Story Telling In Music Promotion

In this article Mark introduces the concept of story telling in brand advertising and shows how creating a story can help independent artists promote their music more effectively. The advertising industry began by creating advertisements that communicated simple product features and benefits.  This worked well, but as the number of...
NEW! The Complete Guide To Music Marketing - Audio Book

NEW! The Complete Guide To Music Marketing – Audio Book

We’ve created an audio guide to help you promote your music in a more effective way. The Right Chord Music, Complete Guide To Music Marketing is now available to download in three parts each priced at £1. (Three pounds for the complete guide). Included in part one. 1. Introduction 2....
Where Is Everyone? Why Albums Make Little Sense For New Artists

Where Is Everyone? Why Albums Make Little Sense For New Artists

When you first start out, the path to music fame and fortune seems pretty straightforward. Not because you necessarily know what to do, but because of what history tells you… Write some songs, play them live, and record an album. Then you get signed and fame and fortune flows.  The...
FREE! The Music Marketing Planning Cycle

FREE! The Music Marketing Planning Cycle

This diagram is designed to provide unsigned bands and DIY musicians with a planning checklist to ensure every release is promoted in the most effective way. Take time to plan your release, give your music the best possible opportunity to receive the exposure it deserves. Don’t spend a year writing...
First Impressions Count. The Importance Of Brand For Your Band

First Impressions Count. The Importance Of Brand For Your Band

Without doubt, the biggest challenge any new band or artist faces is getting their music heard.  So it’s important you give yourself the very best chance of cutting through. Sadly, just having great music is not enough. Bands frequently spend months writing and recording new material and then rush it out...
Get your FREE copy of the Right Chord Music A-Z Of Music Marketing

Get your FREE copy of the Right Chord Music A-Z Of Music Marketing

We’ve now made it even easier for you to get our FREE music marketing guide. No email address required, simply click here. The Right Chord Music A-Z Of Music Marketing If you find it interesting we encourage you to share it with your friends. If you want further assistance and help to...
Six Brilliant Marketing Tools For Independent Artists

Six Brilliant Marketing Tools For Independent Artists

      Here is a round up of some of our favourite music marketing tools. 1. One Sheet: There is a growing need for bands and artists to aggregate existing content. I mean how many more social networks and profiles can your continually update? This website is genius, it pulls in...
Facebook The Guide - For Bands And Artists

Facebook The Guide – For Bands And Artists

We’ve seen a ton of articles relating to Facebook best practice, but none of them really go far enough or go into enough detail to really add value. So rather than settling for second best, we decided to write our own best practice guide. We hope you find it useful....
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The Vivids. AK-47

The Vivids. AK-47

The Vivids are from Long Beach, California their music recalls post art-punk touchtones like A Certain Ratio, The Names, Wall Of Voodoo, Gun Club or Devo and the Talking Heads at their edgiest, while flirting with psychedelic guitar leads and the occasional surf warble. This is their first UK single ‘AK-47′ The single will be released on June 17th...
Episode Thirty One. The Right Chord Music 'Lost On Radio' Podcast

Episode Thirty One. The Right Chord Music ‘Lost On Radio’ Podcast

Welcome to the 31st episode of the Right Chord Music, Lost On Radio Podcast. Presented by Andy Mort and curated by Mark Knight and Andy Mort, Lost On Radio is a weekly showcase of incredible undiscovered music overlooked by radio, or pushed to the late night fringes. This week’s featured artists: 1. Them Savages – Pretty Little Thief...
First Signs Of Love 60. The Dead Heads 'When I'm Dead'

First Signs Of Love 60. The Dead Heads ‘When I’m Dead’

The Dead Heads, are a five piece from the Southern outskirts of Sydney, who play an eclectic mix of 60s psychedelia and 90′s grunge.  Continuing the ‘dead’ theme, this is ‘When I’m Dead’ and it’s this week’s #FSOL (First Signs Of Love) featured track. First Signs Of Love tracks are the ones that grab you and consume your...
Rob Bridge. The Art Of The Image Pt. 4

Rob Bridge. The Art Of The Image Pt. 4

My first pick this month is a photo of Forever Can Wait, a Southampton based band who’ve made it onto the Red Bull shortlist to be one of the acts chosen to play at Download Festival in June (apparently you can vote for them here). Anyway I’m not here to plug bands….I’m here to talk...
Courts. Refresh

Courts. Refresh

Former band of the week Courts are back with a brand new single called ‘Refresh.’ Picking up where previous EP ‘No Knowledge No Heart’ left off, it effortlessly fuses funk and hip-hop to create an infectious, cool summer jam.
WALLA. No Time

WALLA. No Time

This is Los Angeles quartet WALLA and their new single ‘No Time.’ The name WALLA is a reference to the sound and murmur resulting from a large crowd of people. This intriguing band came together from diverse global backgrounds (Mexico / El Salvador, Italy, Indonesia, Brazil & Korea) and bonded over a mutual desire to make fresh...
Episode 30. The Right Chord Music 'Lost On Radio' Podcast

Episode 30. The Right Chord Music ‘Lost On Radio’ Podcast

Welcome to the 30th episode of the Right Chord Music, Lost On Radio Podcast. Presented by Andy Mort and curated by Mark Knight and Andy Mort, Lost On Radio is a weekly showcase of incredible undiscovered music overlooked by radio, or pushed to the late night fringes. This week’s featured artists: 1. Motorcycle Display Team – A Taste 2. The...
First Signs Of Love. 59 Burning Condors. Riot In The Streets

First Signs Of Love. 59 Burning Condors. Riot In The Streets

This track is actually a B-side but it’s so flipping good we’ve up-graded it. Burning Condors typically serve up a bluesy indie mix, akin to a roughed up Jake Bugg but for this track they explore a much heavier, faster punk sound. It works to stunning effect and perfectly matches the subject matter. Written in...
Band Of The Week. Our Lost Infantry

Band Of The Week. Our Lost Infantry

Surrey based quartet Our Lost Infantry have suitably described their new album as a ‘post-rock opera’. The band’s debut ‘The New Art History,’ was designed to be an experience for the listener. Not content with being standard, the band incorporated isolated pieces of music with separate lyrics, to create whole songs that rolled perfectly.  Mixing...
World's End Press. Deadbeat Sweetheart

World’s End Press. Deadbeat Sweetheart

This is ‘Deadbeat Sweetheart’ from Melbourne’s World’s End Press. It’s a sexy slow dance of a song that fuses a variety of styles including disco, krautrock and punk. World’s End Press have just recorded their debut album with Tim Goldsworthy (DFA / Mo Wax / UNKLE) and are off to the US to support Cut Copy...
RCM Interview. Polly Paulusma. Wild Sound Recordings

RCM Interview. Polly Paulusma. Wild Sound Recordings

We caught up with Polly Paulusma to find out more about her music, and her new acoustic, folk label Wild Sound Recordings. First up, what is Wild Sound? The back-story to the name is that ‘wild sound’ or ‘wild track’ is the special sound an engineer captures on a film shoot in the background, the...
Episode Twenty Nine. The 'Lost On Radio' Podcast

Episode Twenty Nine. The ‘Lost On Radio’ Podcast

Welcome to the 29th episode of the Right Chord Music, Lost On Radio Podcast. Presented by Andy Mort and curated by Mark Knight and Andy Mort, Lost On Radio is a weekly showcase of incredible undiscovered music overlooked by radio, or pushed to the late night fringes. This week’s featured artists: 1. Sharks Took The Rest – Restaurant...