Your Electronic Press Kit – or EPK – is your online artist resume. It provides information about who you are and what you do and helps present your music professionally to people in the music industry. This could include venue bookers, festival programmers, radio presenters, promoters, labels and funding bodies.

Artist biography

Who are you? What do you do? Where are you from? And what land are you living on? (example: Gadigal Land) You might want to also add ‘Who's your mob’? (example: Wiradjuri) What can listeners and audiences expect from your music? Create two versions – a short bio (<200 words) and a long bio (up to 400 words). This – in full or in part – will be used by bookers, festivals, and others in the industry if they are referring to you.

Recorded music (if applicable) 

Include information such as release name, year and links to listen (stream). You can also mention if the release is available in a physical format, such as CD or vinyl. If you haven’t released music yet, that’s ok! You may wish to include demos or live recordings if you have them. For more information, see our Writing a Bio resource.

Contact details

Include your artist email address and a contact phone number in your documents. Do not use a personal email, create one specifically for your music if you haven’t already.

Links

Include links to your:

• Social media profiles (Instagram/Facebook/TikTok/YouTube/X/Threads etc)
• Digital Streaming Platforms artist pages (DSPs) (e.g. Spotify/Bandcamp/ SoundCloud/Apple Music)
• Official artist website (if you have one)

Photos, artwork & videos

As a minimum, include two high resolution photos – one portrait and one landscape. Consider getting professional shots to best represent yourself as an artist. If you have it available, also include any artwork for your music releases. For videos, include official music videos, live videos and even ‘talk’ videos, where you share information about yourself and your latest news and updates.

Latest news

Keep updating this to share your news. What's coming up? Where are you playing? Next tour info? Heading into the studio? Releasing music?

A zero-cost option for creating and sharing your EPK is to use Dropbox or Google Drive. Simply create a folder and drag and drop your EPK essentials into it. Then, include the link when you are getting in touch with people via email or when using application forms. To see how you could set up your EPK folder, check out a mock example we made in Google Drive.

You can download this guide below.