Mike King, a veteran music marketing manager and managing editor of http://www.artistshousemusic.org, discusses some new distribution methods and services that will get your album to consumers without the need for a traditional distribution agreement, which can be nearly impossible for independent artists to secure.
Duration : 0:5:49
Miz Metro is a modern music media artist, one that embodies the power today’s artist can have in the creation and distribution of their image- as an art form in itself. While maintaining a 4.0 at SUNY Purchase as a New Media major, Miz Metro also leads here seven-piece band “The Makebelieves” and plays regularly in NYC, in between traveling to LA frequently to write, record and sell songs. With a strong voice on the Internet, her popular weekly column “Miz Metro Mondayz” on The Bloom Blog has developed a loyal following which has helped expand her fan base across the world. Experimenting with editing her own music videos, she designs all the media for her marketing, is producing her own Internet TV Show, and is curating an art show at Gallery 151 called “TRASHION” featuring recycled art including her own Metro card pieces. At 22 years old she is poised, with an unwavering work ethic, to be a future music media mogul. She’s the next Madonna, but the first Miz Metro.
Duration : 0:3:56
Meet Surfer Blood: they call West Palm Beach home and, while still in their early 20s, have penned an album worth of catchy, summery indie songs that even the most hook-laden power pop band would rightfully be jealous of.
Comprised of members JP (dubbed The Mastermind by the rest of the band), TJ, Thomas Brian and Marcos, Surfer Blood met one fateful night at an after party for Miamis Ultra Festival, though they didnt attend the festival itself (We do not like the DnB, they proclaim). After discussing music, what else, for the remainder of the night, JP and TJ decided to recruit the three other guys to perfect a couple of songs they had been working on for some time, and thus, the band was formed.
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LAs Warpaint weaves majestic guitars, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia/shoegaze, the haunting intimacy of folk, and rocks primal heaviness. At the core of the band are Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman and Jenny Lee Lindberg.
Duration : 0:6:31
Sally Seltmann is an award-
winning songwriter and singer.
She has previously released
albums and performed under the
name New Buffalo, and is well
known as the co-writer of the
song 1234, performed by Feist.
Sally now returns with Harmony
to My Heartbeat, the first single
from her new album, Heart
Thats Pounding, due for release
in Spring 2010 on Arts & Crafts.
Duration : 0:3:54
Systema Solar is a musical-visual collective from the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
It ’s members, originating from a diversity of territorial and sonorous latitudes have found in the afro Caribbean vibrations a sea of possibilities to renovate the strength and spirit of Colombian music. The objective of the collective is to create audio-visual performances with their own style which they denominate the berbenautika. Influenced by the spirit of the Colombian piko culture (sound systems style performances), the members of the group come together to create, adapt and reinvent different music through improvisation, emphasizing the cult of joy and dance. They recycle the afro Caribbean and folkloric music of Colombia such as cumbia, bullerengue, porro and champeta and fusion these through electronic tools with contemporary rhythms and cultural styles such as hip hop, house, techno, breakbeat, breakdance, turntablism and live video performance. Systema Solar was created at the end of 2006 for a performance at the opening ceremony of the biennial of contemporary art of Medellin MDE07, since then, the group has presented itself all over Colombia and released its first CD in 2009 titled Systema Solar.
Come and dance with us, Systema Solar!
Duration : 0:3:37
Ray J
ALL I FEEL
OUT NOW
Ray talking about who’s on his record and how it feels to be on an independent record label and being put up against artists on major labels.
Duration : 0:1:41
I See Stars has been working very hard on the long awaited release of their first full length album. The forthcoming album is titled 3D. The album strays away from all the musical features you are used too, blending all genres of music, in hopes to set the bar for a new unique sound. Since there has been a surplus of “electronica/hardcore” music, the pages will be turned again, and new eyes will be opened, to bands and fans alike. Catch them on tour this summer! They will be doing nationwide tours the whole season. Tour dates go up very soon! Continue to support, and keep your eyes out for the upcoming tour dates and their debut Sumerian Records release!!!
Duration : 0:3:20
When Dave Schmitt and Kyle Even formed Breathe Carolina in 2007 they didn’t anticipate that their project started “just for fun” would explode into an internationally sought-after band in just two short years. But like all the best, most exciting new bands, Breathe Carolinas unprecedented story began with a fan-base that grew organically, fueled by an enviable, rapidly spreading word-of-mouth, and the undeniable spark of something unique.
The story of Breathe Carolina is a modern day music fairytale of two friends who recorded tracks on GarageBand at home in Denver, CO, put them on to MySpace and rapidly gained a huge online following that transformed their hobby into a career, and them into stars. We got started just by hanging out, reflects Kyle. We just sat in a room and threw ideas back and forth, and had to take trips to the library to talk to people online because we didn’t have internet at our house. We honestly weren’t expecting anything, we just made some songs and people started hitting us up about them. It’s been way crazier than anything we could have imagined it to be.
Duration : 0:3:35
Learn how to get your songs heard in this free music business tips video for independent recording artists.
Expert: Christopher Knab
Contact: www.fourfrontmusic.com
Bio: Christopher Knab is co-author of Music Is Your Business & was voted by Rocket “One of the Most Influential People in the Northwest Music Industry.”
Filmmaker: Mike Purdy
Duration : 0:2:31