Sunday, December 21, 2008

Band Marketing - Engaging the Community

Marketing tips for bands from iSound.com
Sometimes what makes a great band can be as little as being engaged in the community.

Here are some ideas on how you can engage the community.

  • Video Journals - Keep your fans in the loop by doing a weekly video journal of the bands adventures. Everything from band practice, videos from the tour etc.
  • Blogs - Besides having a band blog each member should have a blog that is open to the public.
  • Photo Journals - Like the video journal, photos should be taken and shared with fans. Encourage your fans to subscribe to your photo feed.
Your band and each member of the band should have their own identity that should be open to the public. Updates should be weekly and on a regular basis. Your fans should get used to logging in and checking up with the band each week to see what new content, blogs, photos are available.

Here are some great examples from bands around the web

Valencia - This band does a good job of releasing videos on a regular basis.

Here is a video they made of their favorite moments on tour.


Hellogoodbye - This band does a good job with a photo journal. Pictures are uploaded almost weekly and include everything from the band shopping, touring, and just having fun
http://www.hellogoodbye.net/photos/

All Time Low - Giving a tour of their bus





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James Lipton introduces Death Cab For Cutie on Craig Ferguson

Best intro ever


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Pitchforks Top 50 Albums of 2009

Here are Pitchfork's top 10 from their top 50 list. Looks like Fleet Foxes dominated everyone's list this year, yay for Seattle bands.

1. Fleet Foxes


2. Portishead - Third
3. NoAge - Nouns
4. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
6. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
7. Vampire Weekend
8. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
9. Hercules and Love Affair
10. DJ/Rupture - Uproot



You can buy all the albums off Amazon


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Download Purevolume's Top 21 Unsigned Artists of 2008


Check them out at http://www.purevolume.com/topunsigned2008, all songs are downloadable

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Rolling Stone's Top 1 Movies Of The Year

Rolling Stone released their top 13 movies of the year. Here are the top 5 of the 13.

1. Milk


2. Slumdog Millionaire


3. The Dark Knight


4. Frost/Nixon


5. Wall-E


You can catch the rest of the list here. Had this been my list I would have switched 1st and 2nd place and kicked Wall-E off the list. What were your top movies this year?


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New Video Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson ‘Winter Song’



Buy the single on Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs - Winter Song

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New Video CHIODOS: The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge...

CHIODOS: The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge...
CHIODOS: The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge...


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Warped Tour 2009 Line Up (Part 1)

Announcements for the 2009 Warped Tour have started and here part one of a series of blog posts dedicated to the 2009 Warped Tour

First I just want to say how excited I am that AlexIsOnFire is on the 2009 Warped Tour Line-up. These guys put on an amazing show and have never fully received the credit I think they deserve

AlexIsOnFire - Boiled Frogs


Alexisonfire - Pulmonary Archery



3OH!3
A Day to Remember
A Skylit Drive
Alexisonfire
Anti-Flag
Bad Religion
Bayside
Big D and the Kids Table
Black Tide
Bouncing Souls
Breathe Carolina
Brokencyde
Cash Cash
Chiodos
Dance Gavin Dance
Dear and the Headlights
Dirty Heads
Escape the Fate
Every Avenue
Flogging Molly
Gallows
Hit the Lights
I Set My Friends on Fire
Jeffree Star
Less Than Jake
Lights
Meg & Dia
Millionaires
NOFX
Outernational
P.O.S.
Saosin
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Senses Fail
Shad
Silverstein
Sing it Loud
Streetlight Manifesto
Tat
The A.K.A.s
The Architects
The Ataris
The Devil Wears Prada
The Maine
The White Tie Affair
There For Tomorrow
Therefore I Am
Thrice
TV/TV
Underoath
Valencia
Westbound Train
WarpedTour.com

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Gin Wigmore

Ever since I ran across Gin Wigmore I have been listening to Gin non stop.

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Here is a free mp3
Gin Wigmore - These Roses

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