A Song A Day

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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Thought I would interrupt the hiatus (soon to be over, honest) for this quick post.
So having wondered, a couple of months back, how bands could start marketing their music on Facebook, I was lucky enough to get an early look at the brand new Music Wall application from the OK Cool team.
OK Cool are […]

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A Song A Day is in the middle of a temporary hiatus - I’ll reveal why as soon as I can. Should be worth the wait. Won’t be long anyway. In the meantime, why not peruse this interesting post about how current music fans have never had it so good.

Matthew Herbert – Celebrity
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Compared to Myspace, it’s initially difficult to see how bands can use Facebook – vastly popular though it’s becoming – to promote and market their own music. There are a few apps that help you post your own music to your profile page (as noted yesterday, ReverbNation’s is probably the best of a small bunch […]

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ReverbNation have taken the lead when it comes to Facebook apps for musicians. Despite the riot of activity that followed Facebook’s opening up to developers, bands were poorly served by the music players that appeared.
I haven’t used the ReverbNation platform extensively – my music’s up there, but I don’t have time to maintain yet another […]

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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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I confess - I use P2P sites occasionally. Mainly to get obscure Dylan bootlegs that I just wouldn’t be able to get my hands on elsewhere. One torrent site I visit recently posted a bulletin on its homepage directing visitors to download some music uploaded by one of its regular users. That was about three […]

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