Building a music career is hard work.  Every day, month and year you repeat the same grind: build the band, write the songs, record the songs, rehearse the songs, perform the songs, promote the band, advertise the band, solicit industry, publicize to the press, build the website, create the message boards, forums, and chat rooms, assemble the street team…it goes on and on until you think your head will surely explode from the mountains of menial tasks that face you, the unsigned artist, each day. 
Still, after putting in all of that work a band will hit dry spells, slow times and glass ceilings.  Some days, your already slow move forward, seems to retard even further.  Sometimes it feels as though you’ve peaked and will never advance.  There are even days you want to blow off all of this tedious monotony, get a job in the electronics department at Target, and call it a day! (…)

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