I met Altin Gjoni, The Working Guitarist, through the online freelancing website Fiverr. I was looking for a guitarist last year to add some grunt to a few of my tracks. I sent him a finished track and asked him to play along with the chords and add anything he felt. In this way it felt like a collaboration and the result was electric. I just love it! It's always a little bit weird working with people online but I could immediately sense his kindness, warmth, professionalism

As reliance on social media and the Internet has become a vital key to self-promotion for independent musicians, we're doing everything we can to drive engagement. Seems you're only as good as your last instagram post huh. At times I really feel like I'm floundering, when all I really want to be doing is producing music. I know I'm not alone as a bedroom producer singing into my cheap mic in the closet on Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason fending for myself on the net. Th