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New here? Watch the quick tour

Your feed, music, following artists, messages and calls, lives, and where everything else is.

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For everyone

A place for artists of every kind — musicians, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, writers — to share work and find each other. You can follow people, post, message, listen to music, and buy from artists directly.

Being an artist, step by step

Your artist dashboard, explained

Releasing music, selling, going live, your own page, payouts and the studio.

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  1. Find your dashboard. It's Studio in the menu on the left — or at the bottom on a phone. Everything below happens there.
  2. Say what kind of artist you are. Near the bottom of the dashboard. This decides what you can publish: musicians get the music tools, visual artists get the gallery.
  3. Put something out. Three buttons at the top, and they do different things:
    • Release music — a finished track with cover art. It lands on the Music page and your artist page, and it's what people find later.
    • Publish work — art, photos, video. Goes to the Gallery instead.
    • Post a song — a quick share to your feed. A demo or a snippet. Not listed as a release.
  4. Set up getting paid — only if you want to sell. The Sell your music tile takes you to Stripe, who handle your bank details. We never see them. You keep 93%.
  5. Make your page yours. The Your page tile. It's already filled in from your profile, so this is optional — open the editor if you want to move things around or change the look.
  6. Make something. The Studio tile is a full music studio in your browser: drums, instruments, effects, and a way to export what you make.

For artists

A verified badge, your own one-page site, the ability to release music, sell beats and tracks, and the full studio. Apply at Become an artist — applications are read by a person, not a filter.

Still stuck?

Email info@cafekinship.com. Cafe Kinship is small, so you'll get a real answer rather than a ticket number.