Band Management: Blog 37: King Pizza Records

I am managing “Band A” for one year as an exploration of the music industry – and if we can be successful promoting “Band A” then we’ll consider turning Holy Crap Records Podcast into an indie label. 
To be successful as a label you have to be useful, you have to make money, you have to be able to increase sales for your bands. You have to get the band heard by a larger audience. You have to be able to get press for a band, get them played on radio, get them on tour and playing festivals… 
I am also creating the weekly podcast about the 5 best underground songs of the week. So I get to follow bands and figure out which labels are putting out the best music. A bunch of the bands we’ve been playing (The Mad Doctors, LUMPS, Top Nachos… ) are all on one label – King Pizza Records, the tastiest underground label in all of NYC. So I knew I had to talk to Greg Hanson about the underground music world…