Now that you’ve heard Mike Shinoda talk about labels and youtube, lets look at it from another perspective.
OK GO.
Here is a band that managed to rocket themselves into stardom because they found a way to be creative, capture it for little to no money, and post it on youtube.
I will assume you have seen it, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Creative Promotion’
New Distribution Methods in the Modern Era (Part 3)
April 22nd, 2010 
Greg 
Posted in Industry, Promotion 
Tags: Creative Promotion, Major Labels, Music Industry, Ok Go, YouTube 
No Comments »Promote Your Band. Seriously.
April 4th, 2010 Greg On April 26th, we’ll be talking about gigging.
Part of gigging is promoting the hell out of the show, your band, and releases.
If you hadn’t noticed the links on the right side(bar) of this page, let me introduce it to you.
Take a look at these links. They are all viable ways to promote your band in [...]
Posted in Promotion, Seminar Tags: Creative Promotion, Merch, Music Related Websites, Promotion No Comments »Trent Reznor Case Study (Part 3)
April 1st, 2010 Greg So, you’ve seen the video. You’ve read my thoughts.
What effect has this had? How does is apply to you?
Good questions.
First off, after the success of Reznor (and Radiohead), we’ve seen many mega-artists drop their labels. Diddy, Hillary Duff, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Madonna amongst others have all parted ways.
One can assume that more and more [...]
Posted in Industry, Promotion Tags: Cloudkicker, Creative Promotion, Digital, Downloading, Goes Cube, Metallica, Music Industry, Radiohead, Trent Reznor 1 Comment »Trent Reznor: Case Study (Part 2)
March 31st, 2010 Greg Here is a more detailed take on that wonderful video.
Throughout his career, Trent Reznor has always openly discussed his frustration with various aspects of the music industry. The last record he released for a major label “Year Zero” seemed to really cap off everything he was saying.
Label attempts to shake every last penny from NIN [...]
Posted in Industry, Promotion Tags: Album Leaking, Creative Promotion, Digital, Music Industry, Trent Reznor 2 Comments »
