Get your team together and hit the streets (figuratively and literally).
Here is how to use your fans to help get your name out there and gain more fans, who then can turn around and help spread the word and get even more fans until you eventually take over the world.
How do you get fans to join your stream team?
• Get the word out there that you are looking for help. Be sincere in your call for help.
• Send your fans an email of sincere gratefulness when they do something, anything, to help.
• Incentivize your team. Even the smallest token is appreciated.
• A pair of tickets to see you when you are in the area or A free CD and t-shirt for a contest winner.
Start an E-team!
• The power of the internet buzz is amazing. Just look at Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, a band that had no financial or label support, but sold tons of records with the help of their fans and press.
Use MySpace, Facebook, and blogs to post interesting facts and concert dates for your band. Don’t only do this yourself, but make sure your fans know that you would appreciate it, if they would help out. Have your fans post your banner on their social networking page. They love your music; why not help you make a living.
• Have your team post that you are coming to town on their local music blogs.
Start a street team!
• Giving your music away for free is a small cost to pay to get people out to your shows and gain fans. I am not talking about giving the farm away for free here but when one of the members of your team goes to a show, make sure that they have some demos or free downloadable dropcards to pass out.
• Print up flyers for your team to hang up around town to help promote your show. Now spread the word and get your fans to work with you.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Andy Browne Comments: Dewey Beach Music Conference
(the spelling is all Andy, haha. Andy you know I love ya!)
if you havent been to DBMC you should make it a priority as a workin musician , or if you are just a fan into music at all..the place and crew that run the event are top notch..you will meet plenty of contacts,bands, and who knows with people like paul reed smith wondering around u may just get that one question nagging u all u your life about guitar construction ....it was our 4th time around ,and it just gets better and better.
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if you havent been to DBMC you should make it a priority as a workin musician , or if you are just a fan into music at all..the place and crew that run the event are top notch..you will meet plenty of contacts,bands, and who knows with people like paul reed smith wondering around u may just get that one question nagging u all u your life about guitar construction ....it was our 4th time around ,and it just gets better and better.
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Bands concert tour benefits Habitat for Humanity
Putting a label on the music of Switchfoot and Relient K somehow isn't fair.
Their current tour, which kicks off at Charleston's Municipal Auditorium Tuesday night, is highlighting the efforts of Habitat for Humanity, the worldwide organization that helps to build homes for the economically disadvantages. The bands are donating $1 from every ticket sold to Habitat.
Jon Foreman, lead singer for San Diego-based Switchfoot, said the idea to help Habitat came from his band.
"We have sold a lot of tickets and CDs and T-shirts and stickers and you leave a tour with those sorts of numbers and people say that's a successful tour.
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Their current tour, which kicks off at Charleston's Municipal Auditorium Tuesday night, is highlighting the efforts of Habitat for Humanity, the worldwide organization that helps to build homes for the economically disadvantages. The bands are donating $1 from every ticket sold to Habitat.
Jon Foreman, lead singer for San Diego-based Switchfoot, said the idea to help Habitat came from his band.
"We have sold a lot of tickets and CDs and T-shirts and stickers and you leave a tour with those sorts of numbers and people say that's a successful tour.
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Taco Bell names band search finalists
Taco Bell has announced the 2007 class of Feed the Beat. The 50 bands will receive $500 in free Fourthmeals — the late night meal between dinner and breakfast.
“These bands are constantly touring and look to Fourthmeal as a dependable after-show meal when many other establishments have closed,” said David Ovens, chief marketing officer of Taco Bell Corp. “Their passion for creating great music mirrors our passion for serving great food.”
Hundreds of bands submitted applications in August and were selected over the past few weeks after a national audition. According to a news release, Taco Bell looked for up-and-coming indie rock bands with a passion for touring, a solid fan base and tour history and that are on the road this fall.
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“These bands are constantly touring and look to Fourthmeal as a dependable after-show meal when many other establishments have closed,” said David Ovens, chief marketing officer of Taco Bell Corp. “Their passion for creating great music mirrors our passion for serving great food.”
Hundreds of bands submitted applications in August and were selected over the past few weeks after a national audition. According to a news release, Taco Bell looked for up-and-coming indie rock bands with a passion for touring, a solid fan base and tour history and that are on the road this fall.
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Slash shreds rumours
Now that follow-up effort Libertad is out, Velvet Revolver continues to be dogged by rumours that once contractual obligations are honoured, the end is nigh.
Slash says otherwise.
"No, see, that's the kind of shit we were dealing with when the band first started," the legendary axeman says irritably from an Atlanta hotel room. "That's the same kind of naysayer prediction that we get from other people, but nobody on this side of the fence has ever said anything like that. At this point, I've got my guitar with me and I'm recording ideas for songs that could be prospects for the next record."
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Slash says otherwise.
"No, see, that's the kind of shit we were dealing with when the band first started," the legendary axeman says irritably from an Atlanta hotel room. "That's the same kind of naysayer prediction that we get from other people, but nobody on this side of the fence has ever said anything like that. At this point, I've got my guitar with me and I'm recording ideas for songs that could be prospects for the next record."
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Bandwidth: Stone Vengeance
Like any thrash-rock band worth its weight in heavy metal, Stone Vengeance has a stage presence and list of song titles that should scare the hell out of you. But a hardcore heavy metal band doesn't last 29 years without learning how to pace its distortion-driven adrenaline. So it should come as no surprise that these "lords of heavy metal soul" as they call themselves, are among the most level-headed dudes in San Francisco's music scene.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Meat Puppets add fall dates to reunion tour
Rejuvenated alt-rockers Meat Puppets continue their return to full-time touring as the trio maps out dates for a fall tour behind July's "Rise to Your Knees."
The group will inaugurate its late-year run Oct. 5 in its adopted hometown of Austin, TX, the first of a pair of Texas shows the Puppets will play with Sonic Youth in October. The other SY/Puppets tangle comes Oct. 7 in Dallas.
After the Texas dates, the trio--which consists of brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, along with new drummer Ted Marcus--will hit clubs and small theaters in 14 cities through the middle of November. Dates are listed below.
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The group will inaugurate its late-year run Oct. 5 in its adopted hometown of Austin, TX, the first of a pair of Texas shows the Puppets will play with Sonic Youth in October. The other SY/Puppets tangle comes Oct. 7 in Dallas.
After the Texas dates, the trio--which consists of brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, along with new drummer Ted Marcus--will hit clubs and small theaters in 14 cities through the middle of November. Dates are listed below.
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No Tour for Reunited Led Zeppelin
Fans hoping the recently reunited Led Zeppelin would take the show on the road to rake in a mountain of cash are going to be disappointed.
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Radiohead’s CD: Hail to the free
On Oct. 10 fans [of Radiohead] can download “In Rainbows” and pay whatever price they deem fit. Those who fear the karma police might shell out around $10, but surely there’ll be some creep who throws down a buck or two. Which is probably the selling price in the used bins for 2003’s “Hail to the Thief” - the band’s last dance with EMI/Capitol.
Currently unsigned (and putting to bed those debates on who is the best unsigned band in the world, we suppose), Radiohead is now free to do whatever it chooses with its music - even if it means giving it away. Though other bands have done this in the past, this is the first major release - a potential million-seller - that bypasses the traditional record label middleman. Since the band already has a dedicated fan base and most profit derives from touring, Radiohead can afford to take such a landmark step.
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Currently unsigned (and putting to bed those debates on who is the best unsigned band in the world, we suppose), Radiohead is now free to do whatever it chooses with its music - even if it means giving it away. Though other bands have done this in the past, this is the first major release - a potential million-seller - that bypasses the traditional record label middleman. Since the band already has a dedicated fan base and most profit derives from touring, Radiohead can afford to take such a landmark step.
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