Promoting your music in the web 2.0 era
A quick note about a new site I’ve just stumbled across, Musicbizhacks, the latest blog from Adrian Fusiarski, the man behind the excellent Buzzsonic.dj music industry directory.
Musicbizhacks consists mostly of links to digital music articles from around the web, but also includes Adrian’s own insightful musings on making a living from music in the web […]
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In the old days, labels used to give you an advance when you signed a recording contract with them. It wasn’t really your money, it was just a loan, and if you weren’t successful it usually left you in sizeable debt. Now, they lock you into 360 degree deals and squeeze you for every little […]
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Can you not be both? Amidst all the Myspace Music hyperbole came one phrase from Chris DeWolfe that slightly made me shudder - “This is really a mega-music experience that is transformative in a lot of ways,” he said. “It’s the full 360-degree revenue stream.” 360-degree streams is the buzzword du jour of the major […]
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The final part of my interview with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon Drop records.
6. How do you go about finding bands to sign? or is it just friends’ bands at the moment?
At the moment, the bands are all friends of Charlie in some way, or in the […]
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Part three of my interview with with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon Drop records.
5. What’s the best advice you could give to a band looking to promote themselves online?
Get yourself out there anyway you can, be nice to people who have taken time out of their lives […]
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Part two of my interview with with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon Drop records.
3. What are you offering the bands who sign to you?
Bands that sign to us get their album recorded should they need that, but mainly our bands get to be a part of something […]
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I’ll be back posting more general music stuff here soon, and there will be a special announcement related to Last.fm in a few days, which will explain why I’m no longer updating so much here. In the meantime…
I conducted an interview with Kevin Ehlers, one half of the duo behind upcoming DIY indie label Lemon […]
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Amiestreet.com is a great music promotion platform that’s almost exactly a year old this week. Independent artists can upload tracks to the site, where they are added to the site’s “marketplace” to be promoted amongst Amiestreet users, who will recommend your music to others if they like it. Your songs will start off free, but […]
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In the Guardian, Will Hodgkinson continues to make a mess of running his DIY label, Big Bertha Records. This is all fun and games I suppose, but running a label is undoubtedly one of the toughest projects you can undertake - and he does seem to be making some ludicrous decisions!
He’s keen to point out […]
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A few months ago I was approached by an A&R who was interested in signing me to a new, supposedly ‘revolutionary’ digital-only record label called Red Skin Records. Dubious as always, I got on the phone to the label boss and picked his brains for about an hour, to try and work out what I […]
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This is a blog about how to promote your music successfully in the new internet-driven era. I used to write for the NME, now I work for Last.fm, and also make music as Fakesensations.