A Guide for Independent Artists Around the Globe

Hard-won lessons from hundreds of interviews with independent artists — gathered into one practical guide.

You make the music. This guide helps you get it heard.

A Guide for Independent Artists Around the Globe is a practical, no-nonsense handbook for musicians building a career on their own terms. It was written by JohnK — host of Toast & Jam on Radiodowntown.ca and the man behind Radio Downtown, believed to be Canada's longest-running independent internet-only radio station still broadcasting — and it is drawn from what he has learned interviewing over 736 independent artists from around the world.

Inside: 163 pages and more than 130 short, focused articles you can read in any order, covering career management, creativity and music production, marketing and promotion, social media, booking and playing live, music licensing and distribution, and the money and legal side of being an independent artist — plus a glossary and a directory of services independent artists actually use, with live links throughout. Every article in the index is clickable: tap an entry and go straight to the page.

No hype, no gatekeepers — just hard-won lessons from hundreds of artists who are doing it, gathered into one practical guide.

163 pages · fully clickable index · interviews with 736+ independent artists.