A lot of people mistakenly believes that the world of unsigned/indie music is friendly and a positive world but not all of the time. Musicians can be douchebags too and there’s a lot of them out there. It doesn’t matter how big and popular they are. Even the more popular and established musicians can be assholes too. How can you tell?

Here are the top 5 signs to watch out for:

• They have negative attitudes and short tempers most of the time: This is true. A lot of musicians can have short temper problems. Some of them are usually angry at everything. When you see stuff like this chances are they don’t have a happy life and they have a lot of personal problems. When you get treated badly by other musicians in the music community… don’t take it personally ’cause it doesn’t say a lot about you when they don’t realize it says a lot about them.
• Many musicians have huge egos: These are guys who are always talking about how great they are. They will never admit that they suck. Always talking about themselves, all of the time. They live in their own worlds and they think they’re so big most of the time. They think the music world revolves around them. You get the deal.
• They can be unprofessional: Being late for gigs. No shows. Not promoting themselves online professionally. Not being courteous and friendly to everybody. I can go on all day with this one.
• Always bashing other talent: Musicians bashing other musicians they don’t like. If they think other musicians suck they’ll have no problem saying it in front of the whole world which I always found inappropriate and wrong. Nothing wrong with not liking other talent but be more constructive with your criticism instead of the bashing. Big difference between “constructive criticism” and “bashing”. They’re both not the same. I may not like Phantogram too much but at least I was constructive about it instead of bashing them. There are ways of saying something you don’t like without being mean and offensive about it. It’s how it’s being said.
• A lot of musicians can be alcoholics and drug addicts: Could explain why a lot of them are so crazy and out of this world.

I could go on with the list but these are the big 5 I can think of at the top of my head. This goes for the famous musicians too. A lot of national acts have these problems I explained above. Enjoy!

Kev