A comprehensive guide to gigs, a website, recording and promoting a CD. These cost-cutting tips should save you cash for guitar strings and a real engineer.

These two guides list the top live music calendars and radio shows that feature locally-bred music. All the contact info is listed to get your tunes on the air and to publicize your gig.

The easiest, cheapest and most effective way to communicate with your fans is by e-mail. But there are a few VERY important rules that a list must abide by in order to be effective. Follow these or people will curse your name for eternity.

Getting better audio quality out of (and into) your computer is pretty easy. A few minutes and/or a few bucks will improve your audio quality immensely! This page has the scoop on quick and easy ways to completely overhaul the sound of your music. Check out the long list of 180+ USB/FireWire interfaces and 20 USB/FireWire PCI cards.

This is a map to ground zero of the new Internet music world. Over sixty net-music companies in San Francisco's Audio Alley and in the Bay Area, with direct links to their "jobs available" pages, the lowdown on what they do and who owns them. Remember, a very wise bumper sticker once said, "Real Musicians Have Day Jobs."

Check out these sites to understand the new methods of delivering your music to listeners. And to learn more about how streaming works, check out "Audio Streaming Technology and Legality," right below that section.