Blog 51: Band Management: Band A, Band B, and now Band C, Band D….

For half a year I’ve managed “Band A” as an art project / investigation of the music industry. Band A did pretty good – played on 4 radio stations, reviewed by two music journals, on a minor minor minor label, and had two songs on compilations. Then The Styrofoam Turtles announced that they were releasing their single “Pipe” on our label – Holy Crap Records – and as we love Tristen Colby, Josh Davis and Colm McKeon so much and think so much of their music we released their single and sent it around to radio stations and music magazines. The Styrofoam Turtles became “Band B” in this narrative.
During this time Cinnamon and I started thinking about how much we care about and love all you bands and musicians, that we have seen live, played with, and played on our podcast. And we launched Musicians For Overdose Prevention to get narcan in all bars and music venues.
Now we are collecting songs about use/abuse/recovery. We’re still working this out – but we want to create a space for these songs on our podcast and we want to find a major minor label (Rough Trade, Merge, Third Man…) to partner with us and release an album of the best underground music songs on this theme.
In the meantime, we want to collect all your songs and put them out as a massive compilation on Holy Crap Records, adding to the collection as we get more songs. It would just live on bandcamp and every five songs (or so) we’d do a media blast about this project and these bands and these songs. We’re still working this out, but this is what we’re thinking for 2020??? As usual we’re just fumbling forward in the darkness, making it all up as we go along… If we screw anything it’s due to stupidity not malice… Here we go Band C, Band D….