Archive for the ‘Promotion’ Category

Build an Online Marketing Plan

Topspin Media just posted a lengthy guide for putting together an online marketing plan.
They cover some great points, and it’s absolutely worth your time to read it.
Check it out here!

The Best Web Promo Tools Yet!

Cash Music is a NFP group who is doing great things for musicians.
Their goal is to make online music promotion easier, with free, open source web applications.
They have two on their site currently. They have a Wordpress blog template, which makes it VERY easy to setup a great site. They also have a [...]

If You Gig, CHECK THIS SITE

http://www.indieonthemove.com/
http://www.indieonthemove.com/
http://www.indieonthemove.com/
I don’t know how this evaded me. This is one of the best online resources I’ve seen for working bands.
A big thanks to Two Star for sharing it.
This website catalogs every venue in the country, state by state. It provides contact info, booking info (ie: call after 5 on Tuesday’s), and reviews from bands who [...]

Helmet Gets It

They have always ‘got it’. Their music slays, and they have never sold out for more popularity. They just keep ‘chugging’ away. Get it? That’s a riff joke.
90’s hard rockers Helmet are still kicking, and their new release plan shows that aging doesn’t mean out of touch.
They have a multi-tiered release of their upcoming album, [...]

Goodbye MySpace, Hello Facebook, Band-Camp!

If you’ve have followed social networking over the last year or so, there has been one obvious truth.
MYSPACE IS DYING
MySpace has become a barren wasteland of bot band friend-requests, and the model-hot women who just moved into town and are hoping to find bums like you to hang out with. And by that, I mean [...]