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Carmel Mikol’s In My Bones releases 03.30.10
Canadian folk-pop songwriter Carmel Mikol releases her long anticipated debut release titled In My Bones on March 30th. The 10 track album has been grabbing a few ears as it was recently featured as “Pick of the Week” in Halifax’s Chronicle Herald and it’s first single, “Blaming Myself” has been climbing the charts on East [...]
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Kim Wempe’s “Oh Heart” Semi-Finalist in 2009 International Songwriting Competition
With a new album recorded with the help of the likes of Joel Plaskett and Old Man Luedecke due for release this year, it might be hard for Kim Wempe to remember her last recording was released less than a year ago. But in that short time, the project that started out as a Digital [...]
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The Fed Pennies “Buzzing In My Head” Featured in SEGA Olympic Video Game
Canadian pop/punk rockers The Fed Pennies have had a pumped up winter thanks to the placement of “Buzzing In My Head” from their new record Brain Disaster in SEGA’s Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Video Game. Slide on over to thefedpennies.com to hear the song and get a free download of another track from the new [...]
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How to Write a Band Bio for the Web
Your band's biography is the essential welcoming point that connects your band's profile, website, and music to a new visitor when they first visit one of your pages. You want that biography to be as detailed and interesting as possible. The wrong message can either bore or worry away new visitors while the right message can convince them to stick around and listen to a few more tracks. Here are a few tips to nailing that band bio the first time through:
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The Top 10 Music Social Networks
There are a lot of social networks online and more are created each and every day to compete in niches such as dating, pet owners, and sports fans. Knowing which ones will provide you with the resources and interaction you need to market your music is hard. To help you get started in that process, here [...]
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Myspace aquires iLike
Posted on 20 August 2009
Woke up to this message from iLike in my inbox this morning. We wanted our artist community to be among the very first to hear officially that MySpace has entered into an agreement to acquire iLike. We’re sure you have a ton of questions, most importantly: How will this affect me or the artist/band I manage? First off, [...] Continue Reading
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Ariel Hyatt’s Cyber PR for Indie Artists
Posted on 07 November 2008
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing some research on Ariel Hyatt and her PR prowess when it comes to independent music. I was planning to do a feature in the next week or so about how much of an undiscovered gem she and her service could be for a struggling act or artist. [...] Continue Reading
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Twitter is a powerful tool for promoting your music online
Posted on 06 November 2008
I was cruising through some of Jimmy Shelter's posts this morning. If you haven't been to Jimmy's blog recently, you should check it out. He has a great collection of resources for do-it-yourself indie music marketing. In his Band Promotion Links IV post, Jimmy links to a really important article by Ariel Hyatt posted at musicthinktank.com (check it out). Ariel talks about Twitter, and how it's a great tool to use for reaching new fans and making industry contacts. Continue Reading
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What People Want to Read About Your Band
Posted on 13 October 2008
Sitting down to write those first mind-racking band descriptions and introductions on your profile can be very hard. It involves a great deal of thinking, planning, and usually a lot of collaboration with the rest of the band, your friends and family members for ideas and the "right" thing to say. But, rather than worry excessively about what you want to say, you should consider what people want to read about your band. Continue Reading
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MySpace vs. a ‘Real’ Website: Why You Still Need to Have a Website at yourbandname.com
Posted on 06 October 2008
Too often, people tend to think of MySpace as the only marketing tool they need to have in place when they utilize the Internet for their music marketing. They post as many of their songs and their preferences as possible and invite a few hundred new friends to the fold and hope that this will be enough to get them into the upper rankings of bands with Internet presences. Continue Reading
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Using Twitter to Quickly and Easily Build a Devoted MySpace Audience
Posted on 06 October 2008
Twitter is one of those micro niche tools that has developed in the last few years to take advantage of the various different opportunities available through Web 2.0 technologies. Basically, the service allows you to post a short, 140-character line about whatever it is you are doing at any given time. You can upload them directly to the website or from a cell phone. It is basically a take on the status messages so many people use on their social networking profiles as applied to the Internet at large. Continue Reading
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