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Indie music can now be submitted to the Rock Band Network store.
Rock Band Network will now permit independent and unsigned bands to submit their own songs for users to download. This offer is for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions of the game with the intention of providing the most downloadable tracks to Nintendo’s Wii moving forward.
Indie bands can price their songs between 50 cents and $3, netting 30% of track sales. Users of the game will be able to preview songs before they purchase on the Rock Band Network store.
A set of professional tools, which will allow musicians on the front line of writing and recording songs to completely control their destiny. It will take 20-40 hours for first-time users to apply their music on the full-featured editing suite. Bands will also have admission to interactive products and then giving them direct access to the download store.
I travel a lot to speak at music conferences and I see this all of the time: Musicians squirming in their seats as I present ideas on how to improve their marketing. The idea of having to do one more thing is just unbearable to them, and they literally begin to melt down in front of me.
One of my best friends is an artist – a dancer – and she literally takes to bed after she has to write a press release; it literally makes her sick.
You will NEVER achieve the success you want it if you try to do it all alone and take on things that stop you dead in your tracks!
I can not stress this enough: You MUST learn to delegate, and get the stuff that makes you completely stressed out off of your plate.
This is a book specifically written to show musicians how to promote their bands. I’m not a musician, so you might wonder why I would be interested in reviewing it. Some years back I was involved in band publicity in a very small way. My son studied piano and guitar. He played in a number of local bands and they cut a few CDs. At one point he envisioned a career in the music world. Aside from being an appreciative audience, I helped with publicity and started a web site for him. Although he is now involved in other pursuits, such as raising a family, music is and always will be a part of his life. And now my two grandsons are on the brink of starting piano and guitar lessons. Who knows, I may be promoting them one of these days so I read Music Success in Nine Weeks by Ariel Hyatt with an eye to the future. Wow, have I been out of touch. There is so much more to promoting these days.
5 Questions: Answers from Charles McEnerney, Host + Producer for Well-Rounded Radio and Founder of Musicians for Music 2.0
Q) Tell us a little bit about your IR station. What initially inspired you to start it?
A) I started Well-Rounded Radio (really a podcast, but I named it before podcasting started!) because I grew up in Queens, New York City listening to a lot of really great disc jockeys like Vin Scelsa on commercial and college radio who used to do fantastic interviews. But as the years went by and radio changed all over the country, I felt like the only place I was hearing music interviews was on NPR and some syndicated shows. And as much as I love NPR, I felt their in-depth music interviews were with people that were somewhat predictable. I like to be surprised by music and I wanted to do a series where what was coming at you would be a little more unexpected.
CJ Lavoire from Italy will brighten your monday morning. The song ‘First of The Year’ is featured on his self-released album, Jump, from 2007, and he decided to let you download and share it for free. GO!
CJ Lavoire – The First Of The Year [mp3] [ogg]
I have been doing this music caper for twenty years.
However, I have only believed in myself for the past five years and in that time I have achieved much more than the fifteen years preceding it.
I don’t remember that moment when I finally climbed up the top of the mountain and put my flag of belief into the summit but I remember the feeling of knowing that it was okay to be doing what I am doing and it was also okay to be ME.
I have met a lot of musicians along my journey and some of those I have gotten to know pretty well. All of them have a similar story as to how they started in the music industry and it goes a bit like this.
“I don’t know how I started really, I just sort of fell into it and before I knew it I was in a band.”
Sound familiar? It does to me. That’s how I got started.
I didn’t have a plan, didn’t have a clue and didn’t have any idea of what I was getting myself in for let alone what I wanted to get out of it.
I wanted to be a “rock star” so I could “meet girls”.
If you thought playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero over Xbox Live and Playstation’s network was cool, then jamLink will blow you away! JamLink allows musicians to do the same thing, but with actual instruments.
Technology has now provided us with a product that allows musicians to practice with their band members, collaborate with other artists, or even audition over the Internet.
I know getting the whole band together can be a hassle in itself, so having such an innovative tool is pretty cool.
