TAXI

Billed as the “World’s Leading Independent A&R Company,” TAXI helps independent artists, songwriters, and composers get record, publishing, and film and television deals. For an annual fee, members will receive biweekly music listings from international companies, detailed written feedback from experienced A&R professionals, two free passes to TAXI’s private, members-only convention, a monthly newsletter, a year-long subscription to Recording Magazine, and the opportunity to have their original music heard by the music industry around the world.

MusiCares

MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for musicians in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical, and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.

Tour Smart

Tour Smart is a stained glass reflection of what it takes to tour successfully and make it. It is part basic knowledge, part math, part poetry, part alchemy, and part understanding that each and every limitation placed upon you by terrain, physical distance, your bank account, head, heart, and your willingness to choose to ignore the things that stand in your way.

VH1 Save the Music

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring instrumental music education in American public schools and to raising awareness about the importance of music as part of each child's complete education.

ASCAP

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is the only U.S. performing rights organization founded and controlled by music creators. ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for their copyrighted works and makes giving and obtaining permission to perform music simple for both creators and users of music.

National Music Publishers' Association

Consisting of over 800 members, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is the largest U.S. music publishing trade association. As the voice of both small and large music publishers, the NMPA’s mission is to protect, promote, and advance the interests of music creators on the legislative, litigation, and regulatory fronts in the nation’s capital and everywhere publishers do business.

GRAMMY Foundation

The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1989 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation, and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture. The Foundation works in partnership year-round with The Recording Academy to bring national attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and arts education and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural heritage.

Sonicbids

With a thousands-strong network of partners and community of emerging bands, Sonicbids is able to develop innovative music marketing programs for a wide variety of national and international bands. The musicians, fans, and promoters who come together create a powerful resource for sponsors looking to connect with the lifestyle of those driven by a desire to make, promote, and listen to great music.

NextStarNow

NextStarNow is a website to help undiscovered musicians get noticed and make contacts with producers. The site is organized by genre, from pop and rap to gospel and bluegrass. After creating a free account, any user can upload his or her songs. Anyone, member or not, can listen to the content. Each week, a new artist is featured in the middle of the home page.