There is a new rock super group on the horizon made up of drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age & other bands) and bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin).
They are calling themselves Them Crooked Vultures and have started creating a bit of stir [...]
This movie documents the first leg of Iron Maiden’s most ambitious tour ever, the ‘Somewhere Back In Time’ world tour 2008. In 45 days they play 23 sold out shows that span 13 countries in Asia, Australia and North, Central and South America.
For two whole hours, you are given an Access All Areas pass [...]
Trent Reznor is one of those remarkable musicians who has fully embraced the internet and what it can be truly capable of. He let go of the traditional record label music business model years ago and since then has been doing what he can to move forward.
His latest innovation is he’s developed a Nine Inch [...]
John Mellencamp’s perspective on the current climate of the music industry is very interesting to say the least. He recently made a blog post over at the Huffington Post where he goes into great detail on how the music industry has progressively dug itself into the current state.
As an artist for 35 years, he’s seen [...]
Here is a very interesting video of a recent music industry debate where rock star Gene Simmons of KISS fame takes on online music industry critic Bob Lefsetz.
Old school music promotion thinking versus new school? You decide.
The business model major label’s use to use for the last two decades is no longer proving to be effective.
Instead of going after the mass market, focus on really developing and building your niche.
That’s what Bob Baker suggests and it makes a lot of sense.
Read more about it in his post Recalibrate your Music Career
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I had a couple of previous posts introducing you to Twitter and why you should use it.
Ariel Hyatt at Cyber PR has a Musicians Twitter Roadmap blogpost which should help give you some direction as to how artists can effectively start using Twitter.
For the record, you can start following myself at http://twitter.com/chrisyong.
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I came across a very handy guide for musicians about the new look facebook from Ariel Hyatt at Cyber PR the other day.
Facebook initially didn’t have artist pages when it first started but now they do and you can add apps to them also.
Ariel’s blog post highlights how to quickly set up your own Facebook [...]
I found this ‘Music Success In Nine Weeks‘ to be quite an informative and valuable read.
The author Ariel Hyatt runs her own business Cyber PR that specialises in providing online PR services for independent artists so she knows a thing or two about promoting an artist online.
Each ‘week’ in this book really is an aspect [...]
Twitter is one of those newer web 2.0 things that a lot of people don’t know about or unsure of as compared to say something like Myspace or Facebook.
I’ve also heard from other people that Twitter should definitely be looked into as another useful promotional tool.
I came across this really interesting blogpost the other day [...]
