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This month's newsletter features the listings that were submitted to me this past month. The contacts listed are sorted into FIVE sections. 1. Publications that will REVIEW your music |
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2. SITES/PUBLICATIONS WHERE YOU CAN GET YOUR MUSIC REVIEWED Ape .|: Quake 918 Lake Court, Madison, WI 53715 PH: 608-250-2427 FX: 608-250-2427 Adam Mico ape_quake@yahoo.com www.apequake.com Get reviewed on a website that features multimedia coverage including YouTube! The Music Maker Association 28 Grafton Ter. London, NW5 4JJ UK Brian tradmusic@btinternet.com www.musicmakerassociation.co.uk Promotes the work of songwriters and independent recording artists, covering all styles from Folk to Country, Blues, Rock, Jazz and World music. Members are profiled in our magazine and their CDs reviewed by independent writers. All 4 Magazine 4317 Pine Forest Dr. Columbia, SC 29204 PH: 803-786-0929 Brian Gilmore all4magazine07@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/all4magazine A free Hip Hop promotional magazine. Be our next featured artist! Nine5Four Magazine PH: 954-709-6444 editor@nine5four.com myspace.com/vpnine5four Hip Hop magazine with news, reviews and features. We're always looking for fresh artists! Performer Publications www.performermag.com Produces 3 monthly magazines that highlight the best unsigned musical acts from the US. Inside Connection 140 Corporate Dr. Holtsville, NY 11742 PH: 631-654-3474 FX: 631 654 3475 info@insidecx.com www.insidecx.com New releases from independent bands.
WXOJ Florence Community Ctr. 140 Pine St., Florence, MA 01062 Rikk Desgres WXOJ@catseyesoup.com www.valleyfreeradio.org I am acting in what might be considered a music director role. Currently the station receives little music from record labels. The DJ's bring in their own iPods and CDs and they play what they have. What is happening is no real music discoveries are happening at this station. My job is to change all that. We would love to get independent artists music! The Jersey Toddshow 85 Castleton Rd. Princeton, NJ 08540 PH: 609-924-3948 "Jersey" Todd Wachtel jerseytoddshow@gmail.com www.jerseytoddshow A great New Jersey podcast from the mind of a warped New Jersey lawyer. A proud member of the Podshow network, Adam Curry's "Musicologist" and formerly featured on Sirius Sat. Radio, this podcast is committed to promoting the best unsigned/indie bands from all over the world. iLike2Rock.net DJ Tom RockMan@iLike2Rock.net www.iLike2Rock.net Free Indie band promotion and a free internet radio station featuring most genres of music. We will not play Rap or Hip Hop so do not submit that kind of music to us. CriticCAST | SongCritic.com JD Atkinson songcritic@comcast.net www.SongCritic.com A weekly podcast of guest critics reviewing songs posted at SongCritic.com. SongPlanet.com Ann Nightingale spartistsupport@songplanet.com www.songplanet.com/artists/signup.html We have been playing nothing but Indies 24/7 since November, 2003. We offer free artist pages, live DJs (who select the music for airplay), artist forums, and other great tools for Indie artists. We're based in Seattle, and have DJs in Canada, Sweden, the US, and the UK, as well as world-wide artists and listeners. Westsidewill Radio 333 Cottonwood Ln. Naperville, IL 60540 PH: 630-309-4423 Will westside@westsidewill.com www.westsidewill.com We specialize in promoting unsigned artists. We allow artists to post songs, sell merchandise as well as promote upcoming events. WBMB Baruch College Radio 55 Lexington Ave. Ste. 3-280, New York, NY 10010 PH: 646-312-4720 Gina Alioto ginanalioto@gmail.com www.wbmbradio.com Featuring all styles of music. Moozikoo Radio PO Box 50322, Nashville, TN 37205-0322 Anthony Bates anthony@moozikoo.com www.moozikooradio.com Our goal is to bring you the best music from today's independent artists. We focus on music in the Americana, Alt. Rock, Bluegrass, Blues, and Alt. Country genres. eoRadio PO Box 441234, Aurora, CO 80014-1234 PH: 303-808-8140 Ryan Smith webmaster@eoradio.com http://www.eoradio.com The best free music from unsigned artists from around the globe.
Jerome Promotions & Marketing 2535 Winthrope Way, Lawrenceville, GA 30044 PH: 770-982-7055 FX: 770-982-1882 Bill Jerome hitcd@bellsouth.net http://www.jeromepromotions.com We call the music directors and program directors of over 250 stations several times a week in order to help our artists get airplay and the recognition that they deserve with the goal of helping them make a deal with a major label. Boosweet Records PO Box 451594, Los Angeles, CA 90045 PH: 310-613-3535 FX: 909-877-9199 Vernon Neilly VNeillyI@aol.com www.boosweet.com Specializing in the recording and distribution of major acts as well as up and coming artists. We will promote and sell your products worldwide via the Internet. We can get any artist's material into the major digital download stores as well. Nina Denny Public Relations PO Box 1248, Ogdensburg, NY 13669 PH: 315-323-1058 FX: 877-349-0225 Nina ndenny@ninadenny.com www.ninadenny.com PR with a personal touch, affordable rates and music expertise. MusicSUBMIT 650 Pennsylvania #25, Miami Beach, FL 33139 PH: 888-476-8745 FX: 303-444-9122 Michael support@musicsubmit.com www.MusicSUBMIT.com Promotes your music to the decision makers at Internet radio stations, music blogs, online music magazines and more, AND we give you a full report of everything we do for you! Promising Projects 500 W. Ohio #200-D, Midland, TX 79701 PH: 432-618-0705 FX: 866-357-2247 Ronn Reeger indiebible@promisingprojects.com www.promisingprojects.com We provide young, growing indie bands with a combination of services such as artist and business management, booking and promotion. Thus enabling the indie artist a means to enjoy some of the perks of these types of services without having to pay for each one individually. Blistering.com C.P. St Dorothee, PO Box 69023, Laval, QC H7X 3M2 PH/FX: 450-689-7106 Rob Cotter rob@blistering.com http://www.blistering.com Metal music community. Submit your CDs and demos. Bands can sell their CDs at our store. We also feature downloads. Bizzy Connections PO Box 631, New York, NY 10101 PH: 718-501-4191 Donald Murphy DM@BizzyConnections.com www.bizzyconnections.com A website where new entrepreneurs can showcase their craft. Phantom Power Promotions 3071 W. 107th Pl. Ste. G, Westminster, CO 80031 PH: 720-244-9599 Dave Goff info@phantompower.net www.phantompower.net Affordable, honest and knowledgeable DIY promotions for independent musicians. Radio, retail, press and web! Kari-On Productions PO Box 436, Evans, GA 30809 PH: 706-294-9996 FX: 706-210-9453 Kari Gaffney karionprod@knology.net www.karigaffney.com/publicity.html Publicity agency that represents, Jazz, Blues and World artists to obtain reviews in music publications. Brainstem Records 1001 34th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55408 Mike Hastert sixwontoo_eynk@hotmail.com www.brainstemrecords.com Bringing underground Hip Hop and all its elements to the forefront of the world. Counter-culture themed music and artwork to work toward the betterment of Hip Hop and its straying directions. Embryo Records 1655 S. Mojave Rd. Las Vegas, NV 89104 PH: 702-210-5081 FX: 702-207-4965 Tom Parham tomparham@mac.com www.embryorecords.com A full service record label with world class recording, mastering, replication & distribution run by top industry professionals. Platform-1 Entertainment 357 W. Chicago #3S, Chicago, IL 60610 PH: 312-266-9600 FX: 312-266-9579 Devin Buttner Dbuttner@platform-1.com www.platform-1.com Music marketing and Managment. We are a full service marketing and management company that brings years of success working with artists, labels, brands, publishing companies, entertainment lawyers, properties, major to small market PDs, MDs, Marketing/Promotion/Sales departments at radio stations, jocks, consultants, video networks, record companies, management companies, promoters, agencies and media (TV, film, print). Strictly Heavy Management Mark J. Burke mrmarkburke@hotmail.com www.myspace.com/strictlyheavyptl Our management team offers representation to up & coming artists in most genres (heavy music preferred). Our contracts are set up to support the artist's career goals, without "breaking the bank" (unlike management clearing houses.) The contracts are standard industry management deals and are commission based. Warranty Records 243 Elm St. #207, Everett, WA 98203 PH: 425-418-5925 Mark Lutch wrecords@wrecordsusa.com www.wrecordsusa.com Our plan is to become a major player in today's recording and manufacturing industry and in doing so, open up opportunities for our customers to experience great quality entertaiment without the hassels.
5. SITES WHERE YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR BAND'S MP3s OR VIDEOS The BandMates Network Danny danny99@sympatico.ca www.bandmatesnetwork.com Get exposure! Get advice! Get discovered! Sell your CDs! Protect your work! Find bandmates! IndieKazoo.com PO Box 201927, Austin, TX 78720-1927 PH: 917-553-5582 Kenneth Feldman support@indiekazoo.com www.indiekazoo.com Build your own MP3 music store - Sell your music yourself! Any independent musician or band, with no web skills at all, can create their own full-service music download store just by following some easy instructions; and most importantly, receive 100% of their sales revenue, and receive it the same day. Oh, and it's totally FREE for the entire first month. CraveFest PH: 905-660-3110 x264 FX: 905-660-3108 Jason Sukhraj jason@cravefest.com www.cravefest.com Allows artists to upload their videos for free where the public then votes on them. The most popular videos qualify for a music video festival. indieSolo.com PH: 519-342-9526 FX: 519-342-9746 Johnny Ioannou johnnyi@indiesolo.com www.indiesolo.com Unique independent music site that features the world's best indie artists, ONE band a day, everyday! Spotlight exposure for artists and a filter for great music for fans! FREE MP3s everyday! Legaldownload PH: +31 (0) 30-2520222 FX: +31 (0) 30-2544556 Willem Bontrup willem@legaldownload.net www.legaldownload.net We have invented some interesting tools to bring the right music to the right people. Legaldownload aims to promote and sell music in the most easy and efficient way. Ministry Networks Laurie ministrynetworks@sympatico.ca www.ministrynetworks.rockofages.ca Digital Download and promotional programs available to get your song to Christian radio. Radio lists for Christian radio also available starting at $24.99 Indie Bible/Newsletter subscribers can have their songs submitted to digital download to Christian radio stations in Canada and U.S for just $35.00 per song. Just let us know you found out about it through the Indie Bible. Your music must be explicitly Christian and all music will be reviewed for approval before it is accepted for any radio promotions package. JukeBoxAlive 311 Montford Ave. Asheville, NC 28801 PH: 828-232-0016 Will Cumberland cumberland@jukeboxalive.com www.jukeboxalive.com Our Advanced Jukebox Player protects your music from being digitally downloaded, yet allows fans to hear your music online. This creates exciting possibilities for you to present yourself to new audiences without being ripped off.
6. HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR YOUR BAND Fizzkicks.com 250 Cumberland St. #214, Rochester, NY 14605 PH: 585-260-2488 Joe inquires@fizzkicks.com www.fizzkicks.com Our exclusive Music Card Builder™ is the only "Do-It-Yourself" online service empowering musicians to design and print their own custom Music Cards at home ready for sale or promotional distribution instantly. No more expensive duplication runs or waiting for large shipments to arrive. Make over 100 Professional Band-Direct™ Music Cards in less than 15 minutes at home! GigShare Jo Brew theindiemusician@gmail.com theindiemusician.com/Gigshare.html A free grassroots style directory for putting performing musicians in touch with other performing musicians in order to share and access gigs and resources. Songs2Share PO Box 580, Monee, IL 60449 PH: 708-534-1193 FX: 312-281-8622 Roberta Roberta@Songs2Share.com www.Songs2Share.com We sell original song licenses. If you need a new song to sing or have a song to share, visit us. Music Stir 1810 Marlene Dr. Lincoln, NE 68506 PH: 970-988-6310 Chris McConnell chris@musicstir.com www.musicstir.com Combines three products into one site. Includes a revolutionary news service, the ability to easily and effectively release news to the masses and supporting community tools that will give new life to plain text news and features. Push-It Online Newszine PO Box 18126, Cincinnati, OH 45018 PH: 313-207- 5786 Bruce Knight bknight1229@yahoo.com www.push-itnews.com A one-stop shop for unsigned indie Gospel artists promoting sanctified Holy-Ghost filled independent talent! Electronic Online Power Press Kits PO Box 568, Gilbertsville, PA 19525 PH: 610-473-7377 Ron Schock ron@artistpromo.com www.powerpresskits.com The new revolution in affordable, high-tech Electronic Online Press Kits for your generation. The Brink 350 W. Simpson St., Tucson, AZ 85701 PH: 646-213-0900 FX: 520-623-6395 Danny Vinik danny@brink.com www.brink.com An e-zine about life on the edge. Our passions are pop-culture, indie-film and travel. We think radically and play hard. Our users send us digital photos, films, music etc. Seatthole Shirts PO Box 3137, Bellingham, WA 98227 PH: 360-733-2154 Django Bohren info@seatthole.com www.seatthole.com High-quality custom t-shirt screen printing and Rock n' Roll promotional items for your high-, medium-, low- or no-budget project. Music Manufacturing Services Can: 25 Defries St., Toronto, ON M5A 3N4 PH: 416-364-1943 US: 20 W. 20th St. #302, New York, NY 10011 PH: 212-337-0252 Dave Larson dave@musicmanufacturing.com www.musicmanufacturing.com Since 1988, we have been the manufacturer of choice for thousands of musicians, bands and labels throughout North America. MVD Distribution 422 Business Ctr. H-840 N. Circle Dr. Oaks, PA 19456 PH: 610-650-8200 FX: 610-650-9102 http://www.mvdb2b.com A one-stop for music DVDs, carrying the best selection of the format in the world. We execute the physical fulfillment of our products servicing major chains, distributors, one-stops, online & independent retailers. Bandit A&R Newsletter 68-70 Lugley St., Newport, PO30 5ET UK PH: +44-1983-524110 John bandit@banditnewsletter.com http://www.banditnewsletter.com Helping ambitious bands target their demos to labels, publishers etc. Rock-n-Roll Web Design and Hosting PO Box 1922, Salisbury, MD 21802 PH: 410-835-8895 Audra info@rock-n-roll-design.com www.rock-n-roll-design.com We offer powerful hosting tools that give you complete control over all content on your site.
7. Leave Your Drama At Home: More Rockin' And Less Squawkin'! by Sheena Metal, Music Highway Radio © 2007 All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission No matter how we, as human beings, live our lives ... drama happens. And the average musician has more drama than the crazy cat lady down the block has bags of used litter on her porch. At every turn, your average wannabe rockstar has a crazy squeeze, a crazier ex, a harem of would-be lovers, and a gaggle of insane stalkers. Then there's the band drama, manager drama, club drama, fan drama, gear drama, and let's not even get started on the online drama potential. Before you know it, your band makes "Desperate Housewives" look like 60 Minutes. Certainly, no one ever said that music was going to be a safe, secure and solid profession to get into. Any industry that pays buckets of money to young, pretty people for jumping around and showing off is bound to inspire zaniness to some degree or another. And the creative process often brings with it a certain amount of tortured genius that fuels the seeds of drama like miracle grow on weeds. Plus, there are more than twenty million musicians around the world that are clamoring for maybe a thousand record deals like contestants on "Survivor" running obstacles courses for a single meager chicken wing. If there was a country built on drama, a musician would be its queen. However, as much as the music biz is filled with glitz and glamour and the stuff that tabloid headlines are made of, it is also a business. And if there's one thing you don't want in the middle of your business, it's drama. There's a reason why doctors don't fight over dying patients about their golf scores, pilots don't announce to a plane full of passengers that they've been dating the stewardess, and the chef doesn't come to tell you he forgot to wash his hands before he cooked your four-star meal…drama does not belong in business. Whether you're aspiring to get a record deal or searching for a cure for cancer, leave your drama at home! The following are a few tips that will help you to navigate the gossip and erratic turbulence of life in the music industry without becoming a slave to your own drama: 1. Don't Let The Internet Suck You In Every since the invention of the internet, there's been more drama in cyberspace than at a convention for bipolar drag queens. It's easy to gossip and backbite while you can stay anonymous, so the internet has becoming a breeding ground for anyone and everyone with an agenda, an out-of-control jealousy problem, an axe to grind, or an unbelievable ego. Angry, upset, small-minded people with inferiority complexes like size of Shamu will use the internet to poke at your band with a cyber stick. As hard as it may be, you need to learn to let it all roll off your back. As long as they're posting about you, it means they're listening. Removing their inflammatory posts, or replying with similar negativity, feeds the drama until your entire message board is about the trouble-maker on your web site and not your music. What if a potential magazine reviewer or an interested label rep is perusing your page with interest only to find more info about your fight with some internet psycho than about your band? It's not worth risking a loss of opportunity to engage in drama. 2. Drama Doesn't Belong At Your Gigs When you're at a show, your goal is to make music, engage the audience, sell CDs, and win the club over so that you can play there again and again. People make room in their schedules, pay for gas, and fork out cash for a cover charge and bar priced drinks, just to hear you play your songs for them. They want to be entertained; to get away from the pressures of their real lives and escape into the safety and excitement of your music and lyrics. What they don't need is more drama at your gigs then they get from their office co-workers, their wacky neighbors, and bully at their kids' school combined. Whatever problems you're having in your personal and professional life, keep it away from your fans and your industry contacts or they'll start to remember your shows more for the drama than for the music. 3. Your Manager Is Not Your Therapist Although a manager's professional duties make them almost like the band's parent, don't cry to mommy every time the drummer calls you a name or your girlfriend decides she wants to play the field. There is too much music industry drama that your manager has to deal with every day, to add to his/her troubles by piling a heap of your personal woes on top of his/her already overburdened shoulders. If a club owner stiffs you at the door, tell your manager. If another band records one of your songs without permission, tell your manager. If your wife compulsively flashes her breasts at your shows, send her to a therapist, but leave your manager out of it. 4. Take The Crazymakers Off Your Mailing List A lot of damage control can be done simply by eliminating from your mailings the nuts that show up and bring their own boatload of drama. If you know that your ex has never gotten over you, that she's off her meds and that she likes to show up and start swinging at every girl she thinks is catching your eye…why would you invite he to your shows? Comb your address book with a big, black sharpie pen and ink out the stalkers, crazies, attention-getters, and overblown drunkards that will turn each and every one of your gigs into a three-ring circus of drama that you're forced to ringmaster from the stage during your set. Once you remove the drama from your musical career, you'll find that your gigs go smoother, your website is a more positive place for fans to hang in cyber space, and the industry is less wary about getting behind what you're doing. It may seem silly, but too much drama can often be a warning sign that something is really wrong with a band and you may find that industry types will become gun shy around your band if they're worried that your reputation as drama queen will be more trouble than it's worth. Working in the music business is hard enough. Don't give anybody any reason not to work with you. Be smart. Leave your drama at home and show the industry that your music is what's most important to you and your band.
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