MUSIC INDUSTRY
Customize Your FaceBook Fan Page
by TG Mondalf on Jan.03, 2010, under Just For Fun, Latex Records (Updates), MUSIC INDUSTRY
FaceBook has become one of the most popular social networking mediums. Fan Pages allow a company to actively engage the public and create a great visual presence on the Internet. Some of the basics of creating a successful FaceBook page may seem obvious, like ensuring you have clearly identifiable information such as your description and contacts. Utilizing other applications on the Boxes tab can also be effective. However, to create a truly unique Page you may want to consider creating a customized Fan Page. If you are familiar with FaceBook and Web Design you may be able to do this yourself. Otherwise, you may wish to seek assistance! There are many companies online that will perform this service for a fee, some as much as $1500 or more. We will do this for you for FAR less! Let us help you improve your Page and increase your fans.
Tweet this!How Do You Measure Success? [by Projekt label artists]
by TG Mondalf on Jan.01, 2010, under MUSIC INDUSTRY
Leave a Comment :Andrew Hulme, Area, As Lonely As Dave Bowman, Ashkelon Sain, Attrition, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Doug White, Erik Wollo, Forrest Fang, Joshua Gentzke, Lisa Hammer, Lux Interna, Makaras Pen, Mark Seelig, Martin Bowes, O Yuki Conjugate, Projekt Records, Revue Noir, Sam Rosenthal, Soriah, Steve Jones, Tearwave, Todd Loomis, Trance to the Sun, Twilight Garden, Voltaire more...TOUR:SMART and break the band by Martin Atkins
by TG Mondalf on Dec.18, 2009, under MUSIC INDUSTRY
get smart!
Tour:Smart is designed to help the Indie artist navigate their way through the dangerious waters of the music industry and teaches them how to succeed by careful planning. On his site he states, “You should fail because your band is shit or because you don’t have the balls. You shouldn’t fail because of a lack of some basic advice and a bit of planning.”
He continues, “What better person than you to navigate the dangerous waters ahead as you steer your unique vision through the shallow streams of compromise and the deep oceans of sell-out? Tour:Smart will help you avoid the wrecks of ambition as you head towards the constantly moving “X” on the tissue paper treasure map. We will help you know when a random collision of events is creating an opportunity or danger, whether to go for it or blow your nose on it, crash on the rocks or grind them up and snort them.
Tour:Smart is a stained glass reflection of what it takes to tour successfully and make it – whatever that means. It is part basic knowledge, part math, part poetry, part alchemy, and part understanding that each and everyone of the limitations placed upon you by terrain, physical distance, your bank account, head, heart, and your willingness to choose to ignore the things that stand in your way. In pulling all of this apart over the last 30 years, I reached a delightful conclusion: it is only the people who are prepared to risk everything that will be rewarded.”
If you are an indie artist looking for some knowledge, assistance, and no BS wisdom from someone who’s lived to tell – check out Tour:Smart:
Lee Popa ~ “If you don’t buy this book you will work a lifetime playing catch-up to the bands who do.”
Tweet this!Music Promotion for Radio by Bryan Farrish
by TG Mondalf on Dec.18, 2009, under MUSIC INDUSTRY
Visit Bryan's Site
Song/Album Promotion
Booking
Radio Interview Promotion
Check out the main site at http://www.radio-media.com/
Tweet this!Indie On The Move: 100% FREE music venue database and tour booking resource
by TG Mondalf on Dec.18, 2009, under MUSIC INDUSTRY
While checking out a special club event recently I saw a link to this site and had to check it out. It looks like it could be an extremely valuable resource for the touring musician!!! I personally love the attitude of collaboration which reflects my own for Latex Records. The following is from their site:
The creators of this site include original members of the rock band ZELAZOWA. From 2006-2008, ZELAZOWA performed over 500 shows throughout the United States and Europe without the aid of a booking agent, manager, record label, or any other industry “professional.”
The database that you now have access to contains the original notes and reference materials that ZELAZOWA compiled along their journey, as well as an up to date and continuously growing database of new music venues.
Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable music venue database on the web, by fostering a collaborative environment in which artists, fans, agents, labels, venues, and promoters post, rate, and review clubs from all across the U.S. for FREE.
While the site primarily functions as an open-source music venue database and tour booking resource, we strongly encourage users to create their own FREE online account to truly take advantage of the features and opportunities that our website offers.
Creating an Indie on the Move account provides members with the ability to:
Musicians & Industry Professionals
- Rate and review venues
- Add venues to our ever-growing database
- Receive notifications of show opportunities on a local, regional, and national level
- Gig Swap with other IOTM members
- Locate and contact other registered Indie on the Move members through an in-depth Profile Address Book
- Manage tour itineraries and show pursuits via an online day-planner
- Add venues and other members to a “Favorites” folder in My Profile for easy return access
Fans of Independent Music
- Rate and review venues from a spectator’s point of view
- Add venues to our ever-growing database
- Locate and contact other registered Indie on the Move members through an in-depth Profile Address Book
- Add venues and other members to a “Favorites” folder in My Profile for easy return access
Visit Indie On The Move [CLICK HERE]
Tweet this!Bandit A&R Newsletter
by TG Mondalf on Dec.12, 2009, under MUSIC INDUSTRY
ARE YOU an unsigned act, songwriter or producer?? Looking for a Record, Publishing, Management and Licensing deal worldwide, especially in the UK and USA? Each month the BANDIT A&R NEWSLETTER publishes features on Labels, Publishers, Managements etc looking to sign acts, songs or masters.
Get yourself a FREE SAMPLE COPY From: bandit.369@aweber.com
More Information [Click Here]
Tweet this!Todd Durrant’s Random Thoughts: (Owner, A Different Drum)
by TG Mondalf on Jun.24, 2009, under Just For Fun, MUSIC INDUSTRY
Leave a Comment :A Different Drum, Synthpop, Todd Durrant more...(the Durrant) School of Pop!
by TG Mondalf on Jun.18, 2009, under A Different Drum, MUSIC INDUSTRY
You’ve heard of the School of Rock concept from the movie by the same name with Jack Black. Well, now there is a ‘real’ School of Pop. This is a new concept from Todd Durrant, creator of the popular Synthpop label A Different Drum. Todd has nearly two decades working in the music industry and interacting with artists around the world both creatively and on a business level. He also works as a composer of his own music under the name of Saudade. Taking his love of music and experience in the industry and with recording as well as his BA degree in music with an emphasis in sound recording technology, Todd hopes to offer a new way for youth of all ages to fall in love with music, create their own music, and share their talents with others.
As Todd clearly states on his site, “Popular music is an inherent part of human culture and a valid art of expression. Even wise spiritual leaders have applauded good pop music and have celebrated joyfully with dancing and song. When you stop to think about it, much of what we consider to be “classical music” was merely popular music of the time, written with the same motivation as our modern pop music– to entertain, and to artistically express oneself through music.”
For more information, or to sign up if you are in the Logan, UT or surrounding area, please visit …
…as an aside – Todd has also recently published his first sci-fi novel.
Pick up your copy today!
Lastly, also check out his recent interview with Side-Line Magazine published today.
Tweet this!King of an Empire to the Shoes of a Misfit by Myke Hideous
by TG Mondalf on Feb.16, 2004, under MUSIC INDUSTRY, Music Industry
Scandals abound with this current offering from Myke Hideous who has penned a memoir that pulls no punches. He takes on the pretentious scene phonies, hypocritical vegetarians who wear leather, and the show business con artists with equal fervor. Hideous is known for his front man position of bands such as The Empire Hideous, SpySociety99, The Bronx Casket Co. as well as his brief tenure with The Misfits, Hideous recounts upon his youthful dreams of rock stardom, his battles with cancer, incompetent band members, unscrupulous promoters, infidelity, depression, poverty, missed opportunities and a lengthy dialogue of the lies, deceit and abuse he endured while being a part of The Misfits. These memoirs are an insiders view that demonstrates how sometimes a dream can end up a nightmare and reads as though one is sitting and having a long conversation with the author. Each chapter gets more in depth and the guilty are sometimes named while other chapters force the reader to read between the descriptive lines, clearly making this a page turner from beginning to end. King of an Empire is not a mere finger pointing book as Hideous penned this to look at his own limitations and errors as well as those around him. It is delivered objectively with personal comments added in, which round out the perspective he has had thus far. For anyone considering making the music business their career, this book is highly recommended. It takes the rose colored glasses off the dreams of glitz and glamor, confronting the ugly underbelly of the music industry that few ever get to know about.
[Review by Mike Ventarola]
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