With the demise and/or commercialization of several online music sites (*cough* mp3.com) into near-unusability, what options are available now for the aspiring musician to get feedback on his/her music, and maybe some exposure to producers? I’m serious, where do you go, other than creating your own web site?
Well, the only heavily-populated site I know if is Garageband. Apparently, my little blog on my day-after experiences with GB have ended up tops in Google searches for "Garageband reviews". The high rank of that page (no, I have no idea why Google thinks that should be the top link!) arounsed the ire of an anonymous poster on my board, so the weblog has started seeing some discussion about my derogatory review of what GB is about. I encourage you to check it out and comment, or post comments here about where you think aspiring musicians can go for exposure now that most music sites are making themselves even less accessible to casual listeners.
Note, if you’re not logged in, your posts will be as “anonymous” and I’ll have to approve them before they can be viewed. Spammer-control is what that is 🙂
With the demise and/or commercialization of several online music sites (*cough* mp3.com) into near-unusability, what options are available now for the aspiring musician to get feedback on his/her music, and maybe some exposure to producers? I’m serious, where do you go, other than creating your own web site?
Well, the only heavily-populated site I know if is Garageband. Apparently, my little blog on my day-after experiences with GB have ended up tops in Google searches for "Garageband reviews". The high rank of that page (no, I have no idea why Google thinks that should be the top link!) arounsed the ire of an anonymous poster on my board, so the weblog has started seeing some discussion about my derogatory review of what GB is about. I encourage you to check it out and comment, or post comments here about where you think aspiring musicians can go for exposure now that most music sites are making themselves even less accessible to casual listeners.
Note, if you’re not logged in, your posts will be as “anonymous” and I’ll have to approve them before they can be viewed. Spammer-control is what that is 🙂
GB
I don’t use it much now, BC I’m so busy.. but..
Happy to say I have made it into the second round.. and “Starbucks Nation” is now number like 2000 out of 7000.
its kind of cool.. and much of the feedback is helpful.
Oh… and lay off Mr. barnson, anonymous poster.. or his horde of angry barnsonians will destroy your village.
CD Baby
Rare Medium has got a lot of good response and actual purchases just from posting on cdbaby.com
Bought The Dent…
We bought The Dent’s “Farewell” CD off CDBaby. They seem to have their crap together. CDBaby, that is — I don’t know about The Dent 🙂 But they are a fun band to listen to!
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Matthew P. Barnson
Zerophase – a fresh new face in Independent Music Promotion
Actually, that’s right along the lines of something my friends and I started recently. We’re trying to find the best independent music out there. We’re tired of having to search through a bunch of garbage to find the good bands, and we’re sure others are too. Check us out at http://zerophase.net , if you’d like 🙂