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ALMT-MM: Soundcloud dominates music distribution
February 8th, 2010On ALMT-Music Mondays I write about music.
In my last post, I introduced you to The Hype Machine, an awesome site for checking out the latest, hottest, trendiest music on the blogosphere.
But what if you’re a musician that wants to be listed ON that awesome site?
It appears there are a few ways:1. Check out their source list for the top 100 sources and cold call them.
2. Do a little research on THM: find music similar to yours and hunt down the blogs that like your genre and send them your track.Either way you decide to go, you may want to consider putting your music on SoundCloud. Besides the fact that Wired claimed it was threatening MySpace for the “best online music destination,” it appears that THM is aggregated with SoundCloud (which means you’ll make it a whole lot easier for these kick ass blogs to smoothly integrate your band into their daily cool hunting).
An example below (I love how you can comment on specific parts of the song):
I have not yet set up an account for Girl In The Red Dress, but hope to do so soon. If you beat me to the punch, please let me know what you think and where to find your track. Best of luck getting on THM!
And don’t forget to check out tomorrow’s blog for your chance to win the debut EP from GITRD
and for a chance to win an iPad.
YES, an iPad.February 8th,2010 Blogging, Music, Music Mondays | Sections: Crooked Vultures, Girl In The Red Dress, GITRD, iPad, New Fang, prize, SoundCloud, The Hype Machine, win, Wired | 1 CommentALMT-MM: Peter Gabriel scratches some backs
February 8th, 2010On ALMT-Music Mondays I write about music.
I feel like I discovered several goldmines today, so I’ll try to get through them as succinctly as possible.
First: Peter Gabriel rocks. Ok, I already knew this. But what I recently discovered is on 2/16 the man is putting out “Scratch My Back” an indie rock/orchestral cover album featuring such artists as David Bowie, Elbow, Talking Heads, Regina Spektor and Paul Simon. The artists in turn will cover a Gabriel song for the follow-up album “I’ll Scratch Yours.”
I downloaded his rendition of Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is a Cage” and if this is a taste of things to come, then I’m first in line to buy the album.
Next up: Where to listen to the latest finds from the top music blogs on the internet…all in one place?
February 8th,2010 Blogging, Music, Music Mondays, Video | Sections: Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Elbow, I'll Scratch Yours, My Body Is A Cage, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Regina Spektor, Scratch My Back, Talking Heads | No CommentsALMT-Funday Sundays: Polls on the Grammys
January 31st, 2010ALMT-Funday Sundays is a diversion from the rest of the week.
As you may have read on Friday and Saturday, I’ve been keeping myself busy with Polls Boutique. Well, today I received a message that the poll is being featured on their front page, check it out!
I have since put up a whole bunch of polls asking your opinion on who will take home the top awards at the Grammys tonight. I’ve posted one below. Join me on Poll Boutique to answer more!
create a free poll on pollsb.comJanuary 31st,2010 Blogging, Funday Sundays, Music | Sections: Grammys, Poll, Polls Boutique | No CommentsALMT-Music Mondays: DC4 on Rock Band
January 25th, 2010On ALMT-Music Mondays I write about music.
On a recent outing on Facebook, I noticed a pretty awesome announcement from my friends DC4:
DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring guitarist Rowan Robertson (ex-Dio) alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (Armored Saint, Odin) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (Odin) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass, will soon be making an appearance on Rock Band…It is expected that other songs from “Explode” will also be available for Rock Band in the coming year and there is some interest in including DC4’s forthcoming album “Electric Ministry” in its entirety as well.
DC4 enter the studio in December to begin recording “Electric Ministry”. The album is being produced by legendary producer Bill Metoyer, who has produced a host of classic metal albums by bands such as Slayer, W.A.S.P., Fates Warning, Corrosion of Conformity, Armored Saint and DRI.
As you may know, Rowan Robertson appears on the Girl In The Red Dress “Disguise” EP on the title track and “Dirty Step Upstage”. Check out him in the studio, rocking the DSU solo for the first time.
Here’s the video of Candy Caine live, check out Rowan play the guitar behind his head!
January 25th,2010 Blogging, Girl In The Red Dress, Music, Music Mondays, Songs, Video | Sections: Armored Saint, Bill Metoyer, Corrosion of Conformity, DC4, Dio, Disguise, DRI, Electric Ministry, Explode, Fates Warning, Girl, GITRD, Jeff Duncan, Matt Duncan, metal, Odin, rock, Rock Band, Rowan Robertson, Shawn Duncan, Slayer, W.A.S.P. | No CommentsALMT-Music Mondays: Get Dirty Step Upstage for free!
January 18th, 2010Want the title track from Dirty Step Upstage by Girl In The Red Dress absolutely free?
All you have to do to is post a special message on Twitter, and the service Tweet for a Track will email you the full song.
January 18th,2010 Blogging, Girl In The Red Dress, Music, Music Mondays, Songs | Sections: Dirty Step Upstage, free, Girl In The Red Dress, GITRD, Tweet for a Track | No Comments
