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Online Marketing for an Indie Band?
nometa asks: "I'm working with an indie band, and despite excellent reviews, a great album (produced by Sylvia Massey of Tool fame), and excited responses by crowds whenever we play, it seems near-impossible to get past the 'gate-keepers' of the music industry. Majors (and several indies, sadly) don't see a pretty boy band, push for fluffy singles over good songs, and generally act like they still have clue about what people want. We've had great success, however, on our websites selling CDs and pulling in new fans, and would like to push online music marketing further. Do any Slashdot readers have suggestions for pushing our music out further online?" We all know the problem with today's music industry, this is not the place for that horse-pill. Instead let's focus on how an independent music group can go out there and make it on their own, and do so using existing technology (including the Internet), to its best potential. So what suggestions do you have for young, aspiring bands who want to make their music, and not sell their soul in the process?
Sleep in the fucking van. Drive all other the whole United States, or North America, or the world for that matter. That is sole way of getting big without "selling out". I won't judge a band without see them live first because until then they could be talentless hacks with session musicans on the CD.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
It must be sad to have such a small mind and no hope for the future.
It must be sad to not realize that SETI is just searching a small fraction of bandwidth with limited resolution, in a small section of a very vast area (the sky), in small chunks of time. You know statistically it would seem more likely to not find anything, when taking into account all these factors. Especially considering that a world's relative speed to us would make any radio signal coming from it shift, possibly out of the bandwidth we are looking at. We're hoping to stumble upon a magical pulse coming from some far off civilization. Get a life people. Some pulse which could be a super nova or any other cosmic event. We're hoping to find civilizations which might very well be dead by the time we detect them. The sky we look at is not even the current sky. Its the universe 50 billion years ago or whatever. How can we justify wasting our resources on such an endeavour. Our utilities are too feable to be of any use to this search. Finding a needle in a haystick is trivial compared to this. God or allah or however you address him will be the only form of extraterrestrial communication we will ever be able to establish. Unless they find us.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Well, this is harder than that :-P.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF