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Chance to get featured on Music Made with Meaning

Admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:31:06 +0000

LC artists, here’s your chance to get featured on the front page of an up and coming music site called Music Made with Meaning. Just sign up and submit your songs which are added to categories such as Dreams, Memories, Love, etc. http://www.musicmadewithmeaning.com/

Cameron, who runs the site will consider putting you on the front page for a week! It’s a great way to get some exposure and new fans.

Measure for Measure songwriting blog

Admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:58:12 +0000

Sean Han from Blip Blip Bleep turned us on to this very cool blog about the craft of songwriting called Measure for Measure. It has folks like Andrew Bird talking about the songwriting process. Although it has recently gone on hiatus, there is a wealth of information we wanted to share with the community. Thanks Sean!

New features on ReverbNation

Admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:47:00 +0000

My favorite site for music widgets has been ReverbNation. Now they offer artists the chance to add widgets from any site. Just go to Admin/Tools and click on Widgets. People can pick up the widgets from your artist page. All widget placements are then tracked. I’ve already added widgets from Eventful, Amie Street, YouTube, and RockYou.

On the “General” tab, under Artist Info you can now add links to multiple social networking sites including MySpace, FaceBook, iLike, PureVolume, Bebo, Imeem, Last.fm, Xanga, Virb, Hi5 and more.

Also under Admin/Tools is a new feature called Gig Finder. Search for gigs by Venue Name, location/distance, venues another artist has played at, or venues similar to another venue. Searching within 5 miles of Brooklyn gave me 77 pages of popular locations. One thing to watch out for though, venues are added by the performers for the most part. For instance “Jessi Robertson CD Release Party @ Rockwood” is not a venue, but you may find some similar entries on Gig Finder.

Track your show attendance by entering the approximate number of fans who came out to a show. Oh, did I mention they can import Twitter updates too?

ReverbNation is certainly one of my favorite sites. It may not drive traffic as much as MySpace, but the features keep coming.

The Ultimate Link List: Jessi’s Bookmarks

Admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0000

UPDATED 3/18/2007

I freely admit that I am a bit obsessive when it comes to bookmarking useful sites. So my compulsion will now be put to good use thanks to del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site. I am posting a list of links here, that reference all sorts of things, from hacking your MySpace template to local NY music organizations. I will also be adding to this soon with links to my many, many websites as well as some of my favorite local indie bands. I’ll put this somewhere on the front page too. Happy surfing!

Jessi’s links on del.icio.us

Music Resources

NY Resources

Reference and Advice

iSOUND Artist Blog
Indie Contact Newsletter
Now Form A Band

Loops and Samples

iZotope Vinyl – Authentic Lo-Fi Vinyl Simulation for Pro Tools, VST, MAS, Audio Unit, and DirectX audio applications
Macloops – Free Apple Loops and Free Garageband Loops for Apple Pro Logic
Garageband Loops – Download Apple Loops Drum Loops for Garageband

The Ultimate Link List: Jessi’s Bookmarks

Admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0000

UPDATED 3/18/2007

Jessi’s links on del.icio.us

Blogs

Multiply
Blogger
WordPress
LiveJournal.com

Web Design Tools

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Site Planning

Information Architecture models
Information Architecture 101
Building a Good Author Web Site – Directory Structure
SITE DESIGN: Creating site diagrams

Color Schemes

Music Resources

NY Resources

Reference and Advice

iSOUND Artist Blog
Indie Contact Newsletter
Now Form A Band

Loops and Samples

SNOCAP waives annual fee!

Admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:39:00 +0000

Great news today for those of us who have SNOCAP stores (also known as MySpace MyStore). SNOCAP announced today that they will waive the annual $30 maintenance fee. This make SNOCAP much more competitive, as it is only taking a portion of the download fee per song, rather than adding an additional fee on top of the download charges.

Categories: SNOCAP, Digital, Distribution, Download, MP3, MyStore

iSound: 11 Ways to Promote your Music through your Website

Admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:08:00 +0000

I continue to be a huge fan of the iSound newsletter/blog, which is full of real world tips for independent artists. This month’s article promises to be extremely useful. It focuses on 11 ways to maximize your promotion efforts through your band website. I’m sure these tips will apply to MySpace and other social networking sites as well:

“There once was a day when the only way to promote your music was by going downtown, printing off 500 postcards, licking 500 stamps and peeling 500 labels. Now in less than 5 minutes, artists can compose an email list of the 500 people and send it off with one click. Websites give people all over the world a central place to find band information. This was not possible a short while ago. With all the technology advances, artists must make the most of their resources and create a webpage that makes fans want to return to their site.

1. Show personality. A band’s or group’s website is their resource to show the world”

Read the rest of this article here.

iSound also offers profile pages for artists, with a pretty cool music player that can be added to other sites. Band and artist features include:

Basic artist accounts are free

Put your music anywhere on the internet with the portable player

Sell music downloads and keep 100% of the net profits

Instantly create a professional band/artist web site

Instantly sell mp3s as ringtones

Promote music to 1,000,000 music fans each month

Upload MP3′s

iLike: New Artist Dashboard

Admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:43:00 +0000

I’ve written about iLike before. Firstly, because I enjoy iLike’s features as a music fan. Their partnership with GarageBand and FaceBook is brilliant. They’ve recently added a new feature called the Artist Dashboard. If you already have a GarageBand page, iLike automatically created a page for you on their site. You can search for your name and “claim” yourself. Otherwise, I am pretty sure that you will have to create a GarageBand page.

So, you have to go put up another page? You should be doing that anyway to promote yourself, so no complaints. Anyway, this will give you access to some very cool features:

Unlimited song uploads (choose streaming only, or give away downloads)
Fans get notified of local events and shows
iCast multimedia bulletins. You can send videos, pics, and messages from your phone via text
Stats on fan growth
Play counts for full uploaded songs (no count on samples)
Stats on how many people have added your songs to their iLike and FaceBook profiles, or dedicated one of your songs to someone

Someone has already dedicated one of my songs to someone. That is so cool! Hey, the little things excite me. You should definitely get involved. Go, now, do it!

finetune: Find Music

Admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:49:00 +0000

finetune is a playlist site. You can type in an artist name and the site comes up with a playlist featuring that artist and similar artists. You can create your own playlist as well, and then embed it on your MySpace page. It also interacts with FaceBook. Overall, a pretty cool music playlist site.

Last.FM: The Campaign for Better Music

Admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:48:00 +0000

I’ve always liked Last.FM. It’s a music site much like iLike and Mog. It interacts with your music player and tracks what’s in your library and what you are listening to. Independent artists and labels may create their own pages.

Today I heard that Last.FM is launching “The Campaign for Better Music.” From their “Now Form a Band” blog:

The Campaign for Better Music is here to say: it doesn’t have to be like the old days. We’re going to show you how to produce, promote and distribute your music, without spending a load of money, and without lots of other people getting involved.

Read the full manifesto here http://nowformaband.last.fm/2007/09/25/now-form-a-band-the-manifesto

This is an amazing tool for independent artists. If you don’t get right on it, I’m going to have to punch you in the tooth.

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The Ultimate Link List: Jessi’s Bookmarks

Blogs

Tagging

Hacks and Templates

RSS Feeds

Widgets

Web Design Tools

Fonts

HTML

CSS

CSS – How To…

PHP

Site Planning

Color Schemes

Music Players

Image Management

Photo Sharing Sites

Photos & Images

Printing

Slideshows

Online Albums

Photoshop

Miscellaneous

Online File Storage

Website Templates

Music Resources

NYC Venues

Digital and Online Sales

Licensing

Promotion and PR