The setting: Late July, in the interior of British Columbia. The night falls on the first official day of the inaugural Pemberton festival. The day had been warm, but in the mountains when night hits. the temperature drops 15 degrees within 5 minutes. The crowd, already numbering in the 10′s of 1000′s, grew restless as [...]
Hey friends, this just a quick update to your online music post. The Podsafe Music network has helped ArmsUp tremendously. If you’re an artist, I cannot STRESS how great of a service this is. Get your music up there now. PodSafe Music Network: This service provides your music to independent radio podcasters around the world. [...]
Re: TV Placement This isn’t the 60′s or the 70′s. Yes music is still alive, in fact, I would argue that it’s thriving. Just because your old as hell doesn’t mean that your taste in music is superior to today’s generation. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ground breaking new bands that will/are changing [...]
Both Hoover and I consider ourselves fairly versed in new music. We troll Hype Machine for up and coming bands, hit the “big” blogs for new tracks, and attempt to and stay on top of both the mainstream and independant charts. But still we miss things. Especially if they are located in the UK. Which [...]
You don’t have to have a $300,000 music video budget to get people into your music. There’s now many examples of videos that cost practically nothing to produce, but effectively turn people on to a band. For today’s post, I want to show you a Video EPK for one of my fav bands, GlassJAw. It’s [...]
Check out Derek Sivers’ (former head of CDBaby) speech at Berklee College of Music. He makes a lot of great points, but one of the points really stood out: “Be one of the few that knows how to help yourself, instead of expecting others to do it for you.” We all need to remember to [...]
If your a musician, an artist, or anyone with a soul then Joe Strummer’s biography will move you. Find it online or at your local video store. Do your self a favor and check it out. It is not only a great biography on some one who changed modern music, but it is a look [...]
Metallica’s new record “Death Magnetic” leaked within the last few days. If you look hard enough you can find it. Here is what the Metallica Camp has said. WE ARE NOT SERVICING METALLICA MUSIC !!! We know it has leaked on some bit torrent sites. So what, that happens all the time and we are [...]
We started putting together a list of websites and online services (other than facebook and myspace) you can use to promote and sell your music. The list is a work in progress, so if you have suggestions, just leave us a comment and we’ll add it to the list. We’re also not getting paid to [...]
Be Honest With Your Audience: FF'ers
Thousands of fans hurl bottles and shoes at tiny Reading stage Rumours of a Foo Fighters secret gig yesterday (August 24) at the Reading Festival resulted in thousands of fans causing chaos in front of the BBC Introducing Stage. A British punk band named The FF’ers were billed to be playing on the stage at [...]