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You started a band
to make music.
not content.

Tell MadeLoud what's happening with your band — a single, a show, or a whole lot of nothing. Get back a week of platform-ready posts, a fan email that sounds like you, and merch designs your fans would actually wear. Then go back to the music.

Claim a founding spot See a real week

From the team behind MadeLoud.com — 44,000+ artist pages at its 2009 peak. We never stopped rooting for independent musicians.

The problem

The content factory is eating musicians alive

Labels have content teams. You have a phone, a day job, and a show on Friday. The platforms don't care — they want a post every day, in a different format, forever.

86%

of independent artists report significant mental strain from keeping up

67%

say social media is actively hurting their wellbeing

50%+

have paused releasing music because of burnout

Source: Ditto Music independent artist survey, 2025. We read the study. Then we built this.

Proof, not promises

One update in.
This came out.

The entire input, for a made-up band: Porch Fire Sermon · midwest emo · "deadpan, self-aware, secretly earnest" · new single "Yard Sale" out Friday, house show Saturday in Denton TX

Generated in 21 seconds. Unedited.

MondayInstagramPhoto post
"Everything must go. Including our composure."
New single "Yard Sale" is out this Friday. It's a song about giving away things you should've kept and keeping things you should've given away. We are very normal about it. Set a reminder or don't, we're not your parents.
Shoot it: Photo of a handwritten cardboard 'YARD SALE FRI' sign taped to a guitar case on the porch.
TuesdayTikTokReel / short spoken clip
"POV: you wrote a whole song about a folding table"
[deadpan to camera] So this song is called Yard Sale. It is not, technically, about a yard sale. It's about that specific feeling of watching a stranger walk off with your childhood for a dollar fifty. [beat] Anyway it comes out Friday and the guitar does a thing in the bridge that made me cry in a Denton parking lot. That part is real. The dollar fifty is also real.
Shoot it: Talk straight into the phone on the porch, one take, guitar in lap, don't over-light it.

…plus five more days and a fan email that doesn't read like a newsletter. Every post comes with shot notes you can film on a phone in under 10 minutes.

Merch studio

Merch pays better
than streams. it designs that too.

A thousand streams pays about $3.41. One shirt at a show nets you $15 to $20. Same made-up band, same 60-second input — these three designs came back with it:

Everything Must Go — hand-drawn yard sale scene tee design
cream tee

Everything Must Go

A hand-drawn yard sale scene — nods to the single without slapping the title anywhere, so fans in the know clock it instantly.

Secretly Earnest — deadpan flaming heart mascot tee design
black tee

Secretly Earnest

A deadpan heart on fire with a bored expression — the band's whole personality as a wearable mascot.

Denton House Show — living room show scene tee design
cream tee

Denton House Show

The Saturday house show, immortalized — couch crowd, ceiling fan, string lights, the whole living room.

How it works

One update in. A week out.

01

Tell it what's happening

Band name, genre, and what's going on — new single, show Saturday, or nothing at all. Takes 60 seconds.

02

Get your week

Seven platform-native posts — Reels scripts, captions, X posts — plus a fan email. Every piece written in your band's voice, not marketing-speak.

03

Shoot it on your phone

Every post comes with shot notes you can film in under 10 minutes. No crew. No drone. Then go practice.

Since 2008

We've been here before

"Returning control of music to its rightful owners: the musicians." — the MadeLoud mission, 2008

MadeLoud launched in 2008 as a home for independent musicians — 44,722 artist pages, editorial that still gets cited on Wikipedia, and a community that believed nobody should need a label to be heard.

We got the audience. We never figured out the business. The site went quiet, and we hated every year of that silence.

The mission didn't change. The tools finally did. This time we're not building another place to upload your songs — we're building the team you never had.

Where we stand

AI writes the captions.
Humans write the songs.

Here's why we think the line matters: the world does not need one more AI-generated track — 44% of daily uploads to streaming already are. It needs your songs to survive the feed. MadeLoud will never generate music, never clone a voice, never touch your masters. It does the marketing chores. You make the thing that matters.

Founding artists

Less than one shirt a month

  • Weekly content engine — 7 posts, every week, in your voicea $400/mo social manager
  • Fan emails that don't read like newsletters$49/mo tools
  • Merch design studio — designs hand-finished for print$150/design
  • Show promo kits when you book a dateincluded
  • Founding Artist badge, locked-in price foreverfirst 100 only
$19/mo$29/molocked forever for the first 100 founding artists

The guarantee: if MadeLoud doesn't save you five hours in your first month, one email gets you every dollar back. No forms, no "retention specialist."

Claim a founding spot

No card needed today. Founding spots are first-come — we'll email you before launch to lock yours in.

First 100 artists lock $19/mo forever. Refundable, cancelable, no dark patterns — we've been on your side of the stage since 2008.

Fair questions

Asked and answered

Isn't AI content exactly the slop killing music?

AI-generated music is. That's why we don't make any. MadeLoud writes the stuff you were going to write anyway at 1am before a show — captions, scripts, emails — trained to sound like your band, not like a brand. You approve every word before it goes anywhere.

What if nothing is happening with my band right now?

That's most weeks, and the plan handles it. "Nothing happening" weeks get lore, behind-the-scenes, old-song revivals, and fan questions — staying alive in feeds without fake announcements.

Which platforms does it write for?

Instagram (posts, Reels, Stories), TikTok, X, and YouTube Shorts — each in the format that platform actually rewards, not one caption pasted five times.

Do you take a cut of my music or merch?

No. Flat subscription, that's it. Your masters, merch margins, and fan list are yours. We were burned by the old music industry too — that's kind of the whole point.

When does it launch?

We're hand-running MadeLoud for a small group of founding bands right now. The first 100 founding artists get in as we open up, at $19/mo locked. Reserve a spot above and you'll hear from a human — Howard — not a drip campaign.