A collage of gift ideas for musicians is pictured, including a vinyl record clock, soundproofing, a nebulizer, a game, and more.

Music Gifts: What Presents to Buy Your Musician for the Holidays in 2025

By Ale Gil

With the 2025 holidays coming up, a Berklee undergraduate student is the perfect guide for finding gifts the musicians and music lovers in your life will actually appreciate.

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Newsweek Ranks Berklee Online on List of America’s Top Online Schools 2026

Berklee Online is a chart-topping college! When it comes to online education, Berklee Online reached the No. 15 spot on Newsweek and Statista’s 2026 list of America’s Top Online Schools.

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How to Create Music Merch to Grow Your Brand

In this excerpt from Music Marketing 101, discover how to create merch that fans actually want—while boosting your brand, building loyalty, and growing your income.

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How to Book, Plan, and Promote a Live Concert

By Ale Gil

Live performances are essential to growing your music career. This guide breaks down how to book venues, budget your concert, and promote your shows effectively—with a little help from Bruce Houghton’s Touring 101 course. Learn how to turn each gig into a meaningful connection and a sustainable source of income.

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Register for the Next Berklee Online Live Q&A

Have a question? Register for the next Berklee Online live Q&A, and meet the folks who advise, teach, and lead at the world’s largest online music college.

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Shayna Steele on Broadway, Solo LPs, Singing Backup, and Her Berklee Degree

Singer-songwriter Shayna Steele discusses her storied music career (singing backup with Rihanna and Taylor Swift as well as starring in Hairspray and Rent) and studying at Berklee Online with friends Jordan Ballard and Kamilah Marshall.

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What Makes a Good Artist Manager?

What do top music managers have in common? Passion, drive, transparency, and more—explore these traits in this excerpt from Ardie Farhadieh’s Artist Management course.

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Spanish-Language Music Production Course Debuts at Berklee Online

Berklee Online is breaking language barriers with its first Spanish-language course, a brand new version of the popular Music Production Fundamentals for Songwriters course. The course adapts instruction for Spanish-speaking musicians, making music production education easier to access and culturally relevant. Rodney Alejandro, one of the leaders shaping the course, shares why production is the perfect starting point for this new audience.

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What is Sora 2 From OpenAI? What Musicians Should Know

Ben Camp, course author of AI for Songwriters at Berklee Online, discusses the new text-to-video model, Sora 2 from OpenAI, including its implications for copyright holders, public figures, and musicians.

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From ‘Blade Runner’ to Berklee Online: Owen Gurry’s Path to Film and TV Scoring

Owen Gurry went from rural Wales to working on Blade Runner 2049 and Netflix series, all while completing his Berklee Online degree. In this conversation, the guitarist and composer talks about returning to finish what he started and how online study fit into an already full creative life.