If this is your music marketing strategy you are in the wrong game. Seriously, this can’t be working for you. So I’m calling you out @MONEYFAMMFG and I’m calling all my readers to call you out. Can you give this guy just one idea that is better than this @ reply (this is a friggin ...…
Travie is my homeboy. When Gym Class first dropped on the scene with Papercut Chronicles, my band was the only one even close to the sound his peeps were throwing together. Anyway, long story short, we got to play with them and I got to travel on a few Florida dates to drink some beers ...…
Just watched this video from TechCrunch Disrupt with Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s manager and Scooter Braun, Justin Beiber’s manager. The video shows you just how powerful video and social media marketing is in breaking a big artist. Some highlights I wanted to share: Bieber spends 2+ hours a day on Twitter. This is a dude with ...…
photo by Rhymefest Rhymefest is dope. He’s a dope MC and performer. I saw him open for A Tribe Called Quest at HOB in Orlando a few years back. He rocked the crowd like he wasn’t supposed to. We were all there to see Tribe and Rhyme stole the show. Quick background on Fest: he wrote ...…
Last week I talked about some of the ways to use Twitter and some of the ways not to (like Turning Twitter Into Myspace). The post got a strong reaction on, none other than, Twitter. Last week I also stumbled upon a really sweet plugin to showcase the things your fans are saying about you ...…
(live Twitter Stream of @iamjayali) We all know what happened to Myspace. Friend Bots, comment SPAM and really just a lot of noise. The problem is that it seems musicians are not learning from the past. Especially in the hip-hop genre (sorry to call you out, but it seems like you keep coming back like, ...…
Wanted to pass this along as I think there are some great takeaways and points to apply to your music marketing. The video below is an interview I shot with Robert Dempsey from ADS Solutions over at CoLab Orlando. He was recently at BarCampPhilly and overheard some musicians talking about promoting and marketing. He thouhht ...…
We all know Twitter is blowing up. We know that it is helping artists like Amanda Palmer make some cash that her label can’t help her get. We know that Trent Reznor got so personal that he had to discontinue using the service. We even know that Chesterfrench and Asher Roth talk to each other ...…
