- Andrew Allen signs to Epic
- Dinosaur Bones have signed to Dine Alone Records
- A Thousand Horses ink deal with Interscope/DGC Records
- Citizen have signed to Either/Or Records
ContantContact is a great email program for those doing press or even your band's mailing list. It is one of the most customizable and easy to use programs in the mailing business. Their service now fully integrates with the service Flowtown which will extract info from mailing addresses and show you what social networks those people on your mailing list are also on. A great tool to gain more of your fans. Read more here.
About a month ago we got excited when Phoenix released the stems to their most recent album, Wolfgang Amadeus. They have now done another awesome thing and put up a 9 part series showing the making of this record. A very cool insight into how a wildly successful record was made. Scroll down to see it here.
MakeUseOf has up a fantastic article on how to use YouTube Insights to help further your promotions. Knowing how your videos are being shared can help you understand how to better execute future promotions and is some of the most valuable info you can have for promoting your music.
Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston has a great article up at Vanity Fair that talks about the new trend of musician's releasing companion albums. This trend is being discussed on the heels of Ke$ha announcing her new record will be a companion to her 2010 release Animal. Lady GaGa used a similar strategy when releasing The Fame Monster and was rewarded with the limitless success we have seen her achieve. There is no doubt that this re-branding of EP's will be a big part of future release strategies. To read more on the subject, head to your favorite supermarket-line-read's website.
If you don't already have Google Voice you are sleeping on one of the coolest tools around. One of the other cool ways you can use Google Voice is to have your fans leave you messages on a dedicated number. You can make a theme to these messages, whether it is covers, something funny, singing alternate lyrics to your songs, etc and then spread them using links on Facebook or Twitter. Another creative way to excite your fans.
Sound Around - Launch from Sound Around on Vimeo.
If you have been looking to build yourself an iPhone App SoundAround has been one of the easiest and coolest tools to do so. It looks like they will now be making their software even easier as it teams up with ReverbNation and will make this whole process all the more easy.The Economist earlier this month wrote up a fantastic look at what is working to make money in the music business today. While The Economist is normally thought of to be a bit above the reading level of your average musician, this is a great, easy to read article that can teach you a lot about how to focus your music career.
We have seen a handful of band management services pop up in recent years and kNerd is another new one on the block. Some of the features of the service include:
- Update Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Last.FM, BandsInTown and more.
- See where your fans are.
- Your profile is your electronic press kit.
- Your band's shows are pushed to Shazam and Facebook..
The blog Indie Launchpad has up a great article on the possibilities that open up to your group when you have more than one Flipcam amongst your band members. Some great advice.
As I was browsing Bandcamp over the weekend I noticed a new feature that can make life a lot easier in Bandcamp land. They have now integrated the Like button on the album and song pages so it is easier than ever for your fans to spread the word about your music. An awesome new feature to make Bandcamp even more powerful.
Often times big opportunities come up fast for your group. If you are in need of a super fast turnaround on postcards
to advertise your next show or perhaps business cards
to show off the URL to download your music for free, the company NextDayFlyers can do you a world of good, with a cheap price.
The great blog Musician Wages make a strong case for why every group should be on Ping and what you could be doing there. If you are one of the many who has dismissed this service this could be a great read to make sure you feel you are making the right decision.
Today the blog TorrentFreak has an in-depth profile of the Torrent tracker What.cd and some of the stats on the site show why it is so important to make sure your music is on private trackers properly. What.cd is a music only (well, they also do applications and audiobooks, but no movies) and they receive 3,500 hits per second, it shows the power of this platform. Not only do they have tons of people heading to their service, they are tastemakers and influential people who tell others what to buy.
If you believe in the power of torrents to spread your music be sure to upload your music with the correct meta data to the site in both FLAC, Lossless and 320 bit depth MP3s. This ensures that your fans will get the proper versions of your recordings and your music will be presented in the matter in which it was intended, rather than a low quality rip from a stream. Also don't forget trackers like Waffles.fm and Demonoid.
If you believe in the power of torrents to spread your music be sure to upload your music with the correct meta data to the site in both FLAC, Lossless and 320 bit depth MP3s. This ensures that your fans will get the proper versions of your recordings and your music will be presented in the matter in which it was intended, rather than a low quality rip from a stream. Also don't forget trackers like Waffles.fm and Demonoid.
Some people are pretty ticked off with the new MySpace layouts, where as others see this as a great upgrade that makes updating your profile cleaner and easier. Many designers are shying away from upgrading artists profiles since they do not know what to do with them. Thankfully MySpace's Artist HQ blog has been profiling some good looking profiles and one of the best I have seen is from the group You, Me And Everyone We Know. Check out their profile and learn how to make a great new profile for your group.
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