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Free EPK maker & templateFree EPK Maker & Template
You can build a professional EPK for free in a few minutes — no design skills, no PDF. Rifflead hosts it at your own shareable link, with your bio, tracks, photos, live stats, and press on one fast page, and logs your outreach the moment you send it. Below is the template every good EPK follows, and how to turn it into a live page.
Start now: build a hosted EPK at your own link, free, with a 14-day trial of the full outreach toolkit around it.
Build your EPK free →First time here? See what an EPK is for the why, or the step-by-step guide to making one for the how. This page is the template and the tool.
The free EPK template
Every strong EPK follows roughly the same skeleton. Copy this structure — in this order — whether you build your page on Rifflead or anywhere else. Lead with music, keep proof and contact easy to find, and cut anything that doesn’t help someone decide.
Copy this structure, top to bottom
HeaderArtist name, one-line descriptor (genre + location + a hook), and your best photo.
Lead trackYour single strongest song, embedded to stream in place. This is the first thing anyone should hit.
Short bioTwo to three lines, third person, leading with what makes you distinctive. This is the version press will paste.
Long bioA paragraph or two: the sound, the story, and one or two concrete highlights. No filler adjectives.
More musicOne or two additional tracks, or a link to your full catalog.
ProofPress pull-quotes with sources, notable placements or radio, or — if you’re early — real numbers: monthly listeners, followers, sold-out shows.
PhotosA few high-res shots (portrait, live, in-context), horizontal and vertical, that a blog could publish as-is.
LinksSpotify, Apple Music, your socials, your website — the places someone can go deeper.
ContactOne clear email (ideally a dedicated artist address), plus management or booking if you have them. Put it top and bottom.
That’s the whole thing. If a section doesn’t apply yet (no press, for instance), replace it with the closest proof you do have — real numbers work — rather than padding.
How to build it free in minutes
The template above is the hard part; putting it online shouldn’t be. With a hosted EPK maker you skip the design and the hosting entirely:
- Create a free account and open the EPK builder.
- Drop in your pieces — bio, tracks, photos, links, and numbers from the template above.
- Publish to your own shareable link, ready to paste into any pitch.
No designer, no separate website, no wrestling with a PDF that looks broken on a phone. You fill in the template, and the page is live.
Rifflead’s EPK maker is free to build — your story, tracks, live numbers, and placements on one mobile-friendly page at your own link.
Start free →Why a hosted EPK beats a downloadable template
A downloadable template — a PDF or a doc — feels convenient, but it works against you the moment you send it. It goes stale the day you export it: your numbers move, your lead track changes, and the file in someone’s inbox doesn’t. It can’t stream your music, so you’re back to pasting links. And it’s awkward on a phone, which is exactly where busy curators and bookers open it.
A hosted page fixes all three. Update it once and every link you’ve ever sent reflects the change. Your track plays in place. It opens instantly from a URL on any device. That’s why a live page is the 2026 standard and the downloadable one-sheet is now a narrow, on-request extra.
The bonus: your EPK tracks your outreach
Here’s the part a plain template can’t do. When your EPK lives inside Rifflead, sending it is the same action as logging the pitch. Share your link with a curator and that contact moves into your pipeline as “pitched” automatically — no separate spreadsheet, no manual note. Building your press kit and tracking who you’ve reached stop being two chores and become one.
That matters because the artists who get placed aren’t usually the most talented — they’re the most organized. An EPK that quietly tracks itself is how you stay on top of dozens of open conversations without dropping the follow-ups that turn into placements. It’s the whole idea behind running your outreach like a pipeline.
Frequently asked questions
Is the EPK maker really free?
Yes — you can build a hosted EPK on Rifflead at your own shareable link for free, and it comes with a 14-day free trial of the full outreach toolkit around it. You don’t need a designer or a paid website to get a professional page online.
Do I need my own website to make an EPK?
No. A hosted EPK gives you a live page at your own link without building or paying for a separate website. If you already have an artist site, you can still keep a dedicated EPK page — but you don’t need one to start.
What should a free EPK template include?
In order: a header with your name and best photo, your lead track embedded to stream, a short and long bio, a couple more songs, proof (press quotes or real numbers), a few high-res photos, your links, and a clear contact email top and bottom. The template on this page follows exactly that structure.
Can I use a downloadable EPK template instead?
You can, but a static template (a PDF or doc) goes stale the day you export it, doesn’t stream your music, and is awkward on a phone — which is where most people open it. A hosted page fixes all three: it updates everywhere at once, plays your tracks in place, and opens instantly from a link.
How is a Rifflead EPK different from a plain EPK page?
It logs your outreach for you. Because your EPK lives inside Rifflead, sending it to a curator or booker records that pitch in your pipeline automatically — so building your press kit and tracking who you’ve pitched become the same action instead of two separate chores.
