Indie Music

SamDrummerBoy · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:36 am Post subject:

Don't stop now.........

This was just getting interesting. Keep the ideas coming.

Good, bad, or ugly....... Ideas are ideas.....

We all have to sort them out for ourselves anyways.........

Later

Sam

yourockradio · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject:

Haven't stopped. Have to breath though Cool

So... Mr. Alan Tell these fine people where you live. I am sure they would find that interesting. I thought it was.

yourockradio · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject:

Here is an example of SLOP! As much as they pay for these ads, yet they cannot bother to proofread... I think $10,000 is where they start with these. Unless they are just trying to attract stupid people to begin with?

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You may think this is off topic. It is not. Attention to detail, that is my point here. We all make mistakes, but if we spend 10 grand?

I catch these all the time, by the way. What might be my point here? Anybody?

(If you caught it, you have good eyes Wink

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yourockradio · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

Look... Here it is; If y'all don't get in this and participate, then why bother? It is like pissing into the wind!

If we are just gonna have two guys talking, then it is obvious that there is NO WAY we can get an organizational attitude. Just reading threads is not going to cut it. I don't have much more to say until I other voices. And I don't mean the same voices we always hear, I want to see people go "Yeah, let's do something" for once.

If that don't happen soon... I'm done discussing this subject here. There are people who do want to do this, and I will find them somehow.

socialface08 · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: Online music promotion

I'm fairly new to all this online stuff, but I am getting use to it.

What I want to know is, can anybody recommend an online site that shows you how to promote your music online? Like actually walks you through the procedure of 'how to' for those of us that are not really computer literate but know basic skills?

yourockradio · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject:

I'd help walk you through it... No prob.

Contact me at YouRock@YouRockRadio.com and we can work on that. It is a long and winding road, so be prepared for a lot of bumpy stuff. Laughing

#1 This place here... It is all you will ever need to [b]deliver[/b] your product. MusicForte provides all anyone would need in that regard. The rest of it is strategy and marketing. That is what we will work on. The mechanics of the Internet? I have been in the computing arena since 1979, on that issue we have no problem getting you up-to-speed.

nzcruiser · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

hey, u might wanna check this site out, it talks about promoting your music from an independent artist's perspective.

onlinemusicfame. com

would like to hear about it, if u choose to get this...

wish you success...

yourockradio · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:

Why don't YOU get it and tell US about it instead of the other way around.

nzcruiser · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject:

yourockradio · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:29 am Post subject:

Tell him I said to stick his "copyright". So it is OK to harbor information and supposedly protect it under a copyright? I am afraid it doesn't work that way. If it is that good, it will be all over P2P and Bit Torrent networks in a month. And that is a compliment, means his blah, blah has some value in the real world. 99% of that sort of thing never makes it to a P2P network, know why? Most of it is garbage.

What does he think? Thinks he has a corner on this market? Doubt it. Be a pal, share with your buds. Plagiarize it man, that's what presidential candidates would do with it... Why not you?

I can almost guarantee whatever it he supposedly"knows", is information I already have and then some. Getting people to do anything about it? That is another story.

I have seen so much of that stuff and read so much of people saying the same damn thing over and over it isn't funny. Share with us what is so "new" about this stuff here. You have the documents, sell us on it. If you think I would buy ANYTHING from a website ad, well that's a funny one. I have been in the Internet business so long I know they are almost all scams.

Help us out here. Laughing

BelovedLife · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject:

If you don't mind I am going to chine in:

I once worked in something similar. It was called the independant literary group.
Which consisted of several indie book publishing companies coming together to fund major events at book conventions and the like.

For the indie label 500 to work I think you might want to get solid indie labels to promote indie bands. Sorry I don't think that the average unsigned band can focus on music and the promotion of its collaborators effectively.
However indie management may be able to do this.

The question is who's in and whos out?
Would you do this by region? Or genre or both.

Anyway

Im out
Peace

yourockradio · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:32 am Post subject:

Exactly.

The title of this thread was "Indie Success in an Itunes World."

So iTunes is the authority huh? Doubt that. They are planning on giving away music too. They can't figure out how to sell it so they just give it away for ad revenue and higher prices on iPods. You think that is going to effect you as an Indie artist? Yup.

They are doing this for Major label artist benefit. ITunes does not give a DAMN about us, not one bit. Their concern is selling iPods and backing major label crap.

Once you understand this, then you will begin to think outside of the box. iTunes is losing money. Why? Because 99.9% of people on the Internet WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING EVER, EVER, EVER.

Number one, there is a sense of entitlement. The Internet is thought of as a free-for-all. Half of you reading this are freeloaders, never contribute a dime to anything and just get what you can for free. Second, people are afraid to use credit cards on the Internet. THEY WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING... EVER... On the Internet.

The Holy Grail is to GET THEM OFF OF THE DAMN COMPUTER!!!! Then and only then, will you be able to sell anything and make a real impact in a career involving music. The major labels can't even see this, they are just going to give it all away. It is going to come back to bite them on the ass, because eventually NOBODY will be able to make any money selling music.

This is another key to their control fo the industry. Think about it, if you can't compete with FREE, then what are you going to do then? Hmmmm?

I know you think I am BS'ing around here, you laugh and say what an angry person I am, I'm not angry, I am trying to tell you something and you laugh! Or you argue and tell me about clicking this site and that site and iTunes and You Tunes, it's all a joke and the joke is on us!

We need to organize a Union/Company as I said in the other thread. Without this one-mind formula and a solid plan of action, you can kiss a real career as an artist GOODBYE!!! And we can go back to having the majors own entertainment. And that is what they plan to do. Giving away free music is LAUGHING IN YOUR FACE!!! They are laughing because you cannot compete with them if they are playing YOUR GAME!!!

WAKE UP!!!!!

The joker who was on here, who originally posted this crap, is no longer posting this garbage because it's a lie! Claiming to have made a "cool 10,000", yeah right! I challenge him and ANYONE who sells music on iTunes to show us you made any REAL money that you can pay your rent with. This guy was a former major label crony, and maybe he did make money, since he lives in the Caribbean, that may be true, but he never showed us any proof! It is not asking too much to show the people who need to know what you accomplished. You can screen capture you sheets from iTunes and just show us, one time, that you are not pulling our leg. It just won;t happen. All they do is get pissed when I challenge them. Well piss on them then!

IB_Staff · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

Reconsiderate · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: MUSIC IS NO LONGER MOVING