The contacts listed are sorted into FIVE sections.
1. Publications that will REVIEW your music
2. Radio Stations/Shows that will PLAY your songs
3. Labels, Vendors and Promotional Services that will help you to SELL your CD
4. Sites where you can UPLOAD your band's MP3s or videos
5. Helpful Resources for recording artists
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2. SITES/PUBLICATIONS WHERE YOU CAN GET YOUR MUSIC REVIEWED
Guitar Goddess Reviews
269 S. Beverly Dr. #513, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
PH: 310-882-1361
Lola Stewart guitaress@gmail.com
www.guitargoddess.com
We are a female guitarist webzine that promotes music by female singer/songwriters that play guitar. We do monthly reviews and hold an annual female guitarist competition.
Decentx.com
10 Thompson Ln. Edgewater, NJ 07020
PH: 201-313-1100
Nikki Marra Nikki@decentx.com
www.decentx.com
A social networking site that is geared to helping emerging artists promote themselves. Bands that are signed up for the site (which is free) have the opportunity to submit their CDs for review.
Got Dam Magazine
13033 Frankstown Rd. Ste. A2T, Pittsburgh, PA 15235
PH: 412-336-5111 FX: 707-897-8363
mike glenn mike@gotdammag.net
www.gotdammag.net
Online and printed magazine that showcases local underground talent. Also features an online video magazine.
indiessance
indiessance@gmail.com
indiessance.blogspot.com
Featuring short indie music reviews, including links to related MP3s, interviews, biographies, YouTube feeds, lyrics etc.
The Hard Rock Society
2709 15th St. S. #203, Fargo, ND 58103
"Metal Man" Dan
mmd@hardrocksociety.com
www.hardrocksociety.com
A Hard Rock/Heavy Metal site with reviews.
CD Reviews by You
webmaster@cdreviewsbyyou.com
www.cdreviewsbyyou.com
Review any album you like! We're especially looking to showcase upcoming artists.
3. RADIO SHOWS THAT WILL PLAY YOUR MUSIC
WPSC 88.7fm
300 Pompton Rd. Wayne, NJ 07442
PH: 973-720-3669
Rob Quicke music@wpscradio.com
www.wpscradio.com
WPSC is a college radio station that encourages independent music formatting.
Wylde Radio
6125 N. Mason Ave. Chicago, IL 60646
PH: 773 775-6596
Tom Wylde tom@wylderadio.com
www.wylderadio.com
An internet radio show dedicated to the support and promotion of independent and underground Metal.
Detroit Riot Radio
PO Box 15001, Detroit, MI 48215
PH: 313-459-6309
Rein
detroitriotradio@gmail.com
www.officialriotradio.com
An internet radio station and on-air live show aired Thursdays at 8pm on WHPR (Detroit). We are looking for new indie music for airplay and internet rotation. We are in the process of acquiring BMI and ASCAP licenses so that artists will receive royalties from airplay.
CKVI Radio
235 Frontenac St., Kingston, ON K7L 3S7
PH: 613-547-8644 FX: 613-544-8795
Max Lienhard ckvi@limestone.on.ca
www.thecave.ca
A community radio station, housed at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
Groove Suite
3336 N. Texas St., Ste. J-257, Fairfield, CA 94534
PH: 510-773-9640
DJ Walker groovin@groovesuite.com
www.Groovesuite.com
Smooth Jazz and R&B internet radio station.
Mohawk Radio
10862 Coronel Rd. Ste. B, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Rich Z.
richz@mohawkradio.com
www.mohawkradio.com
Hundreds of Punk MP3s for download. Check our website for submission guidelines. Our revamped site has new features that allow you to create profiles, upload pictures, sell merchandise, upload or download songs, promote show dates and more! All bands that join are played on the world famous MohawkRadio stream. 1000's of listeners!
RIFF Radio
2709 15th St. S. #203, Fargo, ND 58103
"Metal Man" Dan
mmd@hardrocksociety.com
www.hardrocksociety.com
Metal. The way it should be.
WPVM
75 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801
PH: 828-258-0085 FX: 828-350-7853
Steven Howard
steven@wpvm.org
www.wpvm.org
The Progressive Voice of the Mountains!
Nette Radio
PO Box 35476, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Annette Conlon
submit@netteradio.com
www.netteradio.com/submit.html
From Piano to Punk - it's great music by fab women artists. You MUST mail or fax our release form with your music.
Moozikoo Radio
PO Box 50322, Nashville, TN 37205-0322
Anthony Bates anthony@moozikoo.com
www.moozikooradio.com
Our goal is to bring you the best music from today's independent artists. We focus on music in the Americana, Alt. Rock, Bluegrass, Blues, and Alt. Country genres.
eoRadio
PH: 303-808-8140
Ryan Smith webmaster@eoradio.com
http://www.eoradio.com
The best free music from unsigned artists from around the globe. We require all artists to register online and sign a release form before submitting. Visit online for details.
4. SERVICES/VENDORS/LABELS THAT WILL HELP SELL YOUR MUSIC
https://indiespotifybible.com
Nina Denny Public Relations
PO Box 1248, Ogdensburg, NY 13669
PH: 315-323-1058 FX: 877-349-0225
Nina
ndenny@ninadenny.com
www.ninadenny.com
PR with a personal touch, affordable rates and music expertise.
MusicSUBMIT
650 Pennsylvania #25, Miami Beach, FL 33139
PH: 888-476-8745 FX: 303-444-9122
Michael
support@musicsubmit.com
www.MusicSUBMIT.com
Promotes your music to the decision makers at Internet radio stations, music blogs, online music magazines and more, AND we give you a full report of everything we do for you!
Little Pocket Records
255 N. Yondota Rd. Curtice, OH 43412
PH: 419-460-0437
Steve Mohr littlepocketrecords@yahoo.com
www.littlepocketrecords.com
An independent record label run from Toledo, OH.
Serge Entertainment Group
PO Box 2760, Acworth, GA 30102
Sandy
SergeEnt@aol.com
www.sergeentertainmentgroup.com
Independent radio station and internet radio promo/tracking and publicity.
Much Luvv Records
4930 Dacoma St. Ste. C, Houston, TX 77092
PH: 713-957-6991
Bobby Herring tre9@dasouth.com
www.realityrap.com
Our vision is to provide Hip Hop music that positively influences people. We are committed to maintaining standards above the norm, yet quality music that competes with the best the music industry has to offer.
Trend-Records
Greentrees, Glassel, Banchory, AB31 4DL UK
PH: 07846271921
Thomas Button thomas@trendrecords.co.uk
www.trendrecords.co.uk
An independent label located in Scotland. We specailse in Indie, Acoustic and Pop music.
Bear Grass Records
Wayne Murphy
waynemurphy@beargrassrecords.com
www.beargrassrecords.com
An independent label dedicated to the preservation and integrity of Acoustic music, and musicians.
5. SITES WHERE YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR BAND'S MP3s
OR VIDEOS
2ManProductions
11406 Sandrock St., Houston, TX 77048
PH: 713-386-9023 FX: 713-751-0906
Carlton info@2manproductions.com
www.2manproductions.com
Interactive web community for artists. Promote and upload your music, photos, videos, IM video conferencing and more! Upload your page today!
Songcast
100 Cliffside Dr. Burleson, TX 76028
PH: 214-418-1544 FX: 817-447-4020
Richard Adams richard.adams@songcast.net
www.songcast.net/r4/
Free MP3 hosting, blogs and social networking.
XIIE
PO Box 935, Angleton, TX 77516
PH: 979-849-1279 FX: 979-849-1278
John McNerney
john@xiie.net
www.xiie.net
Offers original music by original artists via the web - selling around the world 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Huge pay outs.
Boost Independent Music
Level 6 220 Pacific Highway CrowsNest, NSW 2065 Australia
PH: +612-9460-1400 FX: +612-9460-0044
Graeme Logan graeme@boostdigital.com
www.boostindependentmusic.com
Independent & unsigned online MP3 downloads store. Sell your music today!
JukeBoxAlive
311 Montford Ave. Asheville, NC 28801
PH: 828-232-0016
Will Cumberland cumberland@jukeboxalive.com
www.jukeboxalive.com
Our Advanced Jukebox Player protects your music from being digitally downloaded, yet allows fans to hear your music online. This creates exciting possibilities for you to present yourself to new audiences without being ripped off.
6. HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR YOUR BAND
IndabaMusic.com
info@indabamusic.com
www.indabamusic.com
An online networking and collaboration platform for musicians, engineers, producers, and all music professionals. Site members can connect with others in our international community and create online music projects - editing and mixing tracks recorded in different parts of the world using a custom online digital audio workstation. Join for free today to create your profile and host audio and unlimited photos.
Hitmusiclink.com
PO Box 241, Clifton, TX 76634
Duke Machado
duke@hitmusiclink.com
www.hitmusiclink.com
With a worldwide network of artist managers, promoters, and booking agents, you are sure to find what you are looking for in our site.
Urban Music Strategies
16781 Chagrin Blvd. #158, Shaker Heights, OH 44137
PH: 216-255-6558 FX: 208-723-3636
Martin Johnson martin@urbanmusicstrategies.com
www.urbanmusicstrategies.com/blog/
A website designed to help Rap, R&B and Urban Gospel artists with solid do-it-yourself strategies for independent music success.
Gigga Music.com
PH: 954-937-3769
Mike Lewitt newmusic@giggamusic.com
www.giggamusic.com
The search for new undiscovered music starts here! Our site is intended to introduce our visitors to the latest in our search for great artists.
Sound Of Traffic
Adam Leonard
mail@soundoftraffic.com
www.soundoftraffic.com
An online community of musicians trying to effectively promote their work. Members browse the pages of other members for credit that is used to send listeners to their own site. Other helpful tools are available to you as well.
Crystal Clear Disc and Tape
10486 Brockwood Rd. Dallas, TX 75238
PH: 800-880-0073 FX: 214-349-3819
6520 Platt Ave. #729, West Hills, CA 91307-3218
Jim jim@crystalclearsound.com
www.crystalclearcds.com
Need CDs? For over 30 years, thousands of artists across the country have trusted Crystal Clear to take their Audio CD duplication, DVD replication and cassette tape manufacturing projects from concept to finished product. We can do it all - from full-color art design and digital mastering and editing to professional "retail-ready" duplication and packaging. 1000 CDs for $999. 1000 Promo CD Pack for $599. 1000 DVDs for $1499!
Sounds Atlanta
PO Box 49266, Atlanta, GA 30359
PH: 404-329-9438 FX: 404-325-8401
Bill Tullis SoundsAtlanta@aol.com
www.soundsatlanta.com
Studio & remote recording - mastering.
Jakprints
PH: 216-622-6360 FX: 866-900-0901
www.jakprints.com
We continually strive to help each and every customer big or small, to expand and promote their passion with the highest quality service and merchandise.
Rock-n-Roll Web Design and Hosting
PO Box 1922, Salisbury, MD 21802
PH: 410-835-8895
Audra info@rock-n-roll-design.com
www.rock-n-roll-design.com
We offer powerful hosting tools that give you complete control over all content on your site.
nobucks dot net
945 S. Glaspie St., Oxford, MI 48371
PH: 877-662-8257
www.nobucks.net
Our goal is to provide you with fast service and error-free duplications. Don't let our low prices fool you. We're able to keep our overhead low so we can get you the high quality you want at a price you can afford.
CDstands.com
30 Compton Way, Hamilton Sq. NJ 08690
PH: 609-689-1711
Scott Clark
info@cdreview.com
www.cdstands.com
We manufacture our own line of CD boxes for artists to sell their music at shows or in stores.
Bandit A&R Newsletter
68-70 Lugley St., Newport, PO30 5ET UK
PH: +44-1983-524110
John
bandit@banditnewsletter.com
www.banditnewsletter.com
Helping ambitious bands target their demos to labels, publishers etc.
RiPPYFeST
PO Box 1964, Salt Lake City, UT 84110-1964
PH: 801-487-7302
Lisa
info@rippyfest.com
www.rippyfest.com
Bands compete for visitor's votes in hopes of being named RiPPYFeST's best.
Rock Star Promotions
PO Box 5867, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33310
PH: 954-739-9205 FX: 801-740-6554
Aaron Schimmel
servicedesk@rockstarpromos.com
www.rockstarpromos.com
Dedicated to helping everyone live like a rock star, even if you can't play a note!
Seatthole Shirts
PO Box 3137, Bellingham, WA 98227
PH: 360-733-2154
Django Bohren
info@seatthole.com
www.seatthole.com
High-quality custom t-shirt screen printing and Rock n' Roll promotional items for your high-, medium-, low- or no-budget project.
MVD Distribution
422 Business Ctr. H-840 N. Circle Dr. Oaks, PA 19456
PH: 610-650-8200 FX: 610-650-9102
www.mvdb2b.com
A one-stop for music DVDs, carrying the best selection of the format in the world. We execute the physical fulfillment of our products servicing major chains, distributors, one-stops, online & independent retailers.
7. GET UP, GET ON AND GET OFF: THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE RECORD DEAL!
by Sheena Metal, The Music Highway
? 2007 All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission
Imagine this?you're in the local hospital's pre-op ward waiting for the removal of your pesky rupturing appendix. You wait and wait in side splitting agony while your doctor chats it up with the nurses. After what seems forever, he gets you prepped and begins the surgery. What should have been a 20-minute procedure turns into two hours. He cracks jokes and talks about his new Ferrari, while you're lying unconscious with your abdomen split open. Finally, you're sewn up and ready for recovery but super surgeon and his crack anesthesiologist are having a heated discussion about their golf game and have seeming forgotten you're passed out underneath them with tubes stuck in every orifice. If this were your surgery experience, you'd freak out, sue the hospital and your hot-shot doc would wind up cleaning bedpans at the state convalescent hospital.
Sadly, like our skirt-chasing doc, many musicians think that the consequences of their actions are immaterial and treat their audience with the same lackadaisical disregard that the before-mentioned doctor treated his poor patient with. These selfish creative types show up to gigs late, set up at their own leisure (roughly the same pace that a 100 year-old tortoise would run the Boston marathon), play as long of a set as they please (regardless of their designated set time) and break down/clear the stage at their own whim with little or no regard to the club's schedule.
However, if you asked any of these artists, they would say that they consider music to be their career?and shouldn't a career be treated with the same importance and professionalism whether you're a budding rockstar or an established surgeon? It should, but often it's not and bands then find their reputations are tarnished with labels like: slow, lazy, and irresponsible simply because they seem unable to get their show on (and off) in a timely manner. Get branded as a slovenly flake and watch the music industry folks jump ship faster than the rich ladies on the Titanic.
The following are a few tips that will help you to get up, get on and get off in a timely, professional manner that will impress the powers-that-be and leave you fans wanting more:
Have Everything Set Up Before You Set Up
It's not like you just found out you were playing five minutes before. Gigs are booked days, weeks or months in advance so there's no reason not to be well informed and well equipped prior to your arrival and set up. Guitars and drums should be tuned, drum kits and guitar pedals set up and dialed in, and song lists printed and distributed so that set up time is minimal. Once the stage is free, a professional band will simply haul their gear onstage, plug it in, and do a few last minute tweaks before they're ready to rock and roll. The ancient tortoise rockers, however, will plunk the road cases down on the stage and then force friends, fans and industry alike twiddle their musical thumbs in anticipation while each piece of gear is pulled out, unwrapped, wiped off, place into position and screwed in slowly but surely. Truthfully, it's about as interesting as watching paint dry without the guilty pleasure of getting high off the fumes.
Sound Check/Line Check Is Not A Mini Concert
You may view your sound check as the concert before the concert but you're not making any friends dragging out your sound check to an hour and a half while bands are lined up out the door waiting to set up their own gear and check their sound. Same goes for the line check. You may be surprised to know that audiences aren't all that excited to sit and listen to you work out your live sound in front of their eyes and on their time. Save the lengthy tune-up and checking for the Making Of The Band video. Get your levels quick and get to rockin'!
Plan Out Your Set Time Well Before Your Set
The key to a tight set is the prep work that goes on before the night of the gig. Many artists believe that the longer they're onstage the more the audience gets revved up, but there is something to be said about "too much of a good thing." Plan out your set, time it and then time it again and make sure that it comes in a few minutes under your designated set list time. Little passive aggressive tricks like cramming in two or three extra songs at the end of the set or coaxing your friends into screaming for an encore only serves to enrage your sound man and confuse your crowd and extensive tuning and chatting amongst yourselves and audience members in between songs is just plain tedious. The tighter your set is the more professional it sounds to the ears of your audience and the happier you'll make your bookers, promoters and club owners.
Tear Down Should Be The Quickest Of All
If you thought your set up was quick, your band's tear down should be lightning fast in comparison. So much time is wasted every night at a music venue as musicians dawdle after their sets, drinking and chatting with friends, while their gear lies piled up onstage, preventing the next artists from getting set up. Pick up your instruments, haul them of stage, and take them outside or into the green room. There you can wrap your gear up, clean it off, and pack it away into cases and into your cars. Then, it's time to toss back a few beers and gab with the masses until closing time, without interrupting the flow of the evening.
Imagine this?you're in a local club waiting to check out an act your label has sent you to scout. You wait and wait in growing more bored and more drunk while the band you've been sent to see chats it up with the women in the room, giving t-shirts and CDs to the really hot ones. After what seems like forever, the bands takes the stage and begins their set. What should have been a 30-minute showcase turns into an hour or more as the band plays a loose set, stopping often to tune, complain about the sound, yell to the bartender for drinks and crack jokes with select audience members; while you sit unimpressed trying to get a feel for the band's style. Finally, their set ends and you wait to approach the band on behalf of your label but these super rockstars are still onstage wrapping up endless cords and wiping down each piece of gear while they chat with each other about how much their set rocked. If this were you're A&R experience, you'd give up waiting to speak with these lazy musicians, go back to your label and tell them to forget about this particular band and these hot-shot rockstars will wind up working at Starbuck's until they go on Social Security.
This doesn't have to happen to you. Learn to get up, get on and get off. You'll soon have the reputation as an easy-to-work-with, professional, reliable band. After all, you never know who might be in the audience to see you on any given night.
Sheena Metal is a radio host, producer, promoter, music supervisor, consultant, columnist, journalist and musician. Her syndicated radio program, Music Highway Radio, airs on over 2,400 affiliates to more than 126 million listeners. Her musicians' assistance program, Music Highway, boasts over 10,000 members. She currently promotes numerous live shows weekly in the Los Angeles Area, where she resides. For more info
www.sheena-metal.com
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