Your ears are the most important part of making music. Ok, I hear ya, “that’s the most profound thing you’ve ever written, jedi boy.” But, if you read the first sentence with your eyes, you missed my point. Try it blindfolded. If you are involved in making music, in any form or fashion, you probably [...]
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Using Garage Band – Blindfolded
Why Do I Need A Website?
Contact us today, mention this article, and receive a special discount on your website.So you have your music on Myspace, YouTube, and ReverbNation.You added RN’s Band Profile App to your Facebook Page so when visitor’s arrive, they are greeted with that uber-sweet landing page.You have your Twitter profile connected to everything so when you post [...]
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Mid-TN Music Weekly Wrap-Up
And now for your viewing pleasure, here is everything you missed or want to read again:Brian Mackey – From Florida to New York to TennesseeIt’s not just the title of a beautiful record, but it defines Brian’s music – Honest and straight from the heart! Brian has been featured on the Songs of Love for Japan [...]
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Brian Mackey – Florida to New York to Tennessee
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We get a lot of invitations to review new artists here at Mid-Tenn, and it is unfortunate that we can’t get to all of them – though we do try. I surely am glad I did not let this oneslip through the cracks.I got an invitation from Brian Mackey the other day, and I have [...]
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Will Power+Faith+Self Belief = Reject Dreams
Artz&Drafts Ep - http://artz.bandcamp.com/album/artz-draftsHulkshare link: http://hulkshare.com/666y7rjeunltYarshall Artz -- born July 2nd 1990Better Known As Artz the Brooklyn native emerged on to the hip-hop scene at the early age of 15 years old. Growing up he was never a stranger to the hip-hop culture, being raised in a household that always threw the best house parties and kept [...]
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Understanding Facebook’s Changes: Thoughts of a Jedi
I’m not here to inundate you with all the happenings and announcements from Facebook’s f8 Developers Conference.You can find all that information in the thousands of articles, videos, and other media floating around cyberspace.What I want to do is simply provide my thoughts, make some key points, and provide some insight to help people understand what [...]
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F8 – like the legendary planes – Will Fly
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The countdown begins for F8 take-off!Thursday, 9/22/2011, 1pm cst. The Facebook F8 conference goes live via Livestream and blows the afterburners right out.This is big, folks. Let me re-state that. This is BIG, folks! We are heading into a whole new world in social media. There have been lots of changes, lately, and a lot [...]
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iQ Entertainment celebrates the label’s 15th release with Purple Midwest from Ed Trauma
Purple Midwest by edtraumaiQ Entertainment celebrates the label’s 15th release with a 2 track release from Ed Trauma:In the past 2 years, iQ Entertainment has maintained a steady output of quality music from a variety of genres, and the sound engineer behind most of those releases has been Ed Trauma. Finally the man [...]
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Smart as a Fox
Getting SmarterLet’s see, we’ve covered a few subjects lately and last week, we got into copyrights and performance rights in our discussion on the PRO’s. These things can get awfully confusing and leave you mucking about trying to figure out the details for weeks, so I will do my best to fill you in on [...]
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Enter ‘Hattori Hanzo’: Follow-Up Interview With Bill Breeze About Marketing Music with Social Media
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‘Hattori Hanzo’ by Bill BreezeWe continue our conversation with Bill Breeze about the marketing strategy he is implementing to promote the upcoming release of Ill in the Ville Vol. 1.The important thing to keep in mind is the value of the direct-to-fan connection Social Media provides for bands and everyone else adopting a DIY approach [...]
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PRO’s for Beginners
To Be a Pro, You Need a PRO“Huh? Is this more of that collaborate and share kinda stuff?” Yes, and… no.Let’s recap. We have talked about Branding, Management, and Booking. You have got your band together, and you are playing some cool shows. You have a record coming out soon, and you have spent a [...]
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How Bill Breeze Is Using Social Media To Market His Music – Exclusive Interview
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‘Encore’ produced by DJ Burn OneThe StrategyThree weeks ago Bill Breeze released Shake It Off and began telling fans that he was not releasing his next single until his track featuring PM received 200 likes.With 230 Likes and counting, Breeze has dropped Encore and given us an exclusive interview detailing his thoughts behind using Facebook Likes [...]
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Mid-TN Music Weekly Wrap Up
I know, I know. It’s been a while since we’ve seen one of these posts but things happened and they stopped popping up every week.If you have not noticed the informative articles popping up in our DIY Marketing section, then let us point you in the right direction.And don’t forget to check out the music [...]
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Expand Your Fan Base: Jump In My Social Media Time Machine
The Post-World War II economic expansion led to the explosion of American suburbs and the classic Leave It To Beaver imagery.A television in every home. More time for leisure led to more screen time which gave advertisers more opportunity to tap your brain.Even before television there was radio, door-to-door salesmen…one could even argue that advertising began [...]
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Agent at the Door!
Booking made EasySo, you’ve got a great band together, you’ve done a short run of a thousand CD’s, printed some shirts and buttons, and after months of drawing, writing proposals,and auditioning yet another dissatisfied drummer, you realize that you are now proficient with photoshop and a whole bunch of other software and stuff you never [...]
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Rockin’ for Autism
Bands Battle for Anthony’s CauseOur friends Masquarade and The Brew Coffeeshop in Manchester, Tn are teaming up to present a huge “Battle of The Bands” on September 10 in beautiful downtown Manchester. This charity event will benefit Anthony’s Cause, a local charity formed by Richard Banaski and Robert Lowry of Manchester. The gentlemen met by [...]
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“The Surrounding Hours” from The Goldroom
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Encapsulated in GoldI received an invitation from the fellas in The Goldroom to check out their new record, “The Surrounding Hours” a couple days ago. It’s pretty much been playing since then!“Car With Crystal Brakes” really has my attention at the moment. Something about it reminds me of The Cars, but it’s nothing like the [...]
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Robyn Z Faces Conspiracy Theory Head On With ‘Secret Society’
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Visit Robyn Z’s Official Website‘Secret Society’ Videowww.youtube.com/watch?v=34id6ZOzQmMMusic video by Robyn Z. performing Secret Society. (C) 2011 Encoded Entertainment, LLCiTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/secret-society-single/id442709926As the World is mired in turmoil and chaos, the public whispers about Secret Societies and the Illuminati. There is a growing undercurrent portra
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Keyword Research 101: Why Are We Writing So Many Articles About ReverbNation?
First off, let’s state the obvious.We put so much time and energy into developing and maintaining this site for several reasons.One of those is to funnel in traffic so we can build a loyal audience as well as sell services to those who need them.But how exactly do we do that? And what’s the point [...]
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