Music Nation, no relation to Mystic Nation, national online video/talent contest. If you are a band with a video, and want an opportunity to get a deal with Epic Records, here is your chance. Must submit by April 22. If you are a sonicbids member, you can apply for the opportunity here Sonic Bids.
Otherwise visit Music Nation directly online.
Website
Music Nation
Friday, April 20, 2007
Resource of the Day - Disc Makers
This company is a great company for your all around duplication needs. They also offer other great services which include
1. Duplication
2. Posters
3. Tempaltes for CD art booklets
4. Graphic Design for you cover art
5. Mastering.
They are tightly grouped with a couple other resources I have listed in the past like soncibids.com and CD Baby for distribution.
Website
Disc Makers
1. Duplication
2. Posters
3. Tempaltes for CD art booklets
4. Graphic Design for you cover art
5. Mastering.
They are tightly grouped with a couple other resources I have listed in the past like soncibids.com and CD Baby for distribution.
Website
Disc Makers
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
For Your Submission - Internet Radio Sites
Internet radio is a great effective way to get your music out there and be heard. Many stations will accept material directly, others use channels such as sonicbids.com
For Your Submission will be a periodic thread on blog to highlight some internet radio stations and podcasts.
Websites
Iceberg Radio
wablive.com
Marthas Vineyard Radio
For Your Submission will be a periodic thread on blog to highlight some internet radio stations and podcasts.
Websites
Iceberg Radio
wablive.com
Marthas Vineyard Radio
Monday, April 16, 2007
Resource of the Day - Friend Bot
This resource is a compliment to the myspace strategy. Essentially it allows you to pull from a certain demographic or a bands page and then send add messages to these lists. Very effective tool for exposing people to your music and your myspace page. It is essentially the equivelent of leaving a flyer on someones door, though some people see it as spam. I am on the side of the flyer philosophy.
Recommendations.
1. Start with the bands list, typically these people are more into music than your average myspace joe.
2. Focus on your local demographic, say within 20 miles of residence or where the band thinks it is centered.
3. Make sure you check the box that makes sure you don't send duplicate adds, this can piss people off pretty quick.
4. For saftey limit add requests to 300 a day, keeps you off the myspace radar.
Disclaimer, don't blame me if you account gets frozen because you got to hyper with the resource!
Website
friendbot.com
Recommendations.
1. Start with the bands list, typically these people are more into music than your average myspace joe.
2. Focus on your local demographic, say within 20 miles of residence or where the band thinks it is centered.
3. Make sure you check the box that makes sure you don't send duplicate adds, this can piss people off pretty quick.
4. For saftey limit add requests to 300 a day, keeps you off the myspace radar.
Disclaimer, don't blame me if you account gets frozen because you got to hyper with the resource!
Website
friendbot.com
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Resource of the Day - Music Connection
Great resource for submitting player wanted ads, and also a chance you can get your demo reviewed if they select to review it.
Website
Music Connection
Website
Music Connection
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Resource of the Day - News blogs
This is sneaky, but if you feel political or just like to comment on things, find your local news websites and blogs and see if they allow you to post comments to stories. I usually like to sign off a comment with mysticnation.info as my signature
Just another way at getting the name out, of course this assumes that you read a couple of the other blogs and have your website up and running. Otherwise, just leaving the band name as your signature works.
Tip: dont associate you band with hot buttons or if you feel the need to be abrasive, use a different alias than your bands to cause Chaos, unless you are into that kind of thing.
An example of a site that let's you do this:
Website
Just another way at getting the name out, of course this assumes that you read a couple of the other blogs and have your website up and running. Otherwise, just leaving the band name as your signature works.
Tip: dont associate you band with hot buttons or if you feel the need to be abrasive, use a different alias than your bands to cause Chaos, unless you are into that kind of thing.
An example of a site that let's you do this:
Website
Friday, April 13, 2007
Resource of the Day - Constant Contact
Todays resource is extremely important if you have a fan base and want to be able to communicate with them via email. Constant Contact is one of the easiest resources to use for managing and adding to your band mailing list.
Constant Contact has a great interface for building both HTML and text based emails and also provides great tracking of what people do once they get the email.
Website
Constant Contact
Constant Contact has a great interface for building both HTML and text based emails and also provides great tracking of what people do once they get the email.
Website
Constant Contact
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
The Business Side Part 1 - AllMusic.com
Sending your product to allmusic.com is mandatory. Don't think why, don't ask why, Submit your finished CD to this website. It has many benefits.
1. When you decide to join the Recording Academy as an artist, this is the site they use to validate your existence.
2. Wikipedia editors look here to see if you have the necessary three works of art to be a artist with a bio on wikipedia.
Basically it is one of a thousand sites you will want to put your music on this happens to be a more important one than most. You existence on this website shows that you put a little more effort and thought into your music career and are really trying to be the Little Engine that could.
1. When you decide to join the Recording Academy as an artist, this is the site they use to validate your existence.
2. Wikipedia editors look here to see if you have the necessary three works of art to be a artist with a bio on wikipedia.
Basically it is one of a thousand sites you will want to put your music on this happens to be a more important one than most. You existence on this website shows that you put a little more effort and thought into your music career and are really trying to be the Little Engine that could.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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