For Your Submission - Gig Masters

It's been a while but thats because i have been busy playing and putting on the second CD, so forgive me, but I will have much to share going forward. As for teh submission today I stumbled upon this website for promoters looking to find bands. Get you band up there and if someone is looking they will find you based on it being a match(as long as you dont lie)

Link
Gig Masters

Just checking In

Been busy implementing everything I mention on the blogs for the next Mystic Nation release, very time consuming but well worth it. I shall be back on blogging about resources very shortly as I have found even more in the process of this new release.

Back to practicing what i preach :)

For Your Submission - podcastnyc

"Podcast NYC encourages the submission of music submission by independent artists who own their material."

Never hurts to get your music out to as many as possible...

Webiste
podcastnyc.net

More podact and webcast stuff to come, as they are far more likely to work with the little guy!

Expose Yourself ! - All Access Magazine

A new highlight of my blog is to research online and print magazines in a new feature called Expose Yourself! Keep your clothes on, it's about music :)

Website
AllAccesMagazine.com

d Live Webcast

A band that I am in d, is going to be on Flashrock, related to yesterdays post...check us out and see what it is about July 13th, 2007.

The Dictatorship...how to conquer...nicely.

While the word Dictatorship sounds harsh, the context in which I am presenting it is more on the level of an owner of a business, not a CEO type, but a true owner of a business. In most of the bands I have been in the most effective method was when the person with the passion behind the project, was the soel voice in final decisions. I have been both the leader and the follower, and as long as everyone knows their role going into it, there is often far less tension and creative differences than the Collective approach (more on that tomorrow).

Briefly some of the up sides

1. Things get done fast
2. Few hands in the creative cooking pot for final decisions
3. Allocating tasks is centralized

Some of the downsides

1. Over time the tendency to want input will arise from the unofficial collective
2. Burden of cost falls on the dictactor
3. A lazy dictactor means a waste of time for everybody

One thing I focus on as a dictator is to value the opinions of the musicians around me. Realizing peoples strengths and using those strengths, while muting the weaknesses by not calling on them, can really help guide a creative process. I have surrounded myself with people I trust to contribute things that I am unable to contribute, and thus my vision becomes stronger by managing the process and guiding the unofficial collective. On the flip side if someone brings their chaos into the mix, it is real easy as a dictator to remove the problem.

This concept really only seems to work when you as a musician really want to drive the project, and everyone else really wants to only be involved as a musician, not a band member.

Resource of the Day - BroadTexter

Keep in mobile communication with your fan base.

Website
http://www.broadtexter.com/?gad=CN2B3ZMDEgg8VvZzIFCqcBjrzZz8AyDJ6aQk