This stuff only happens when you don’t know what you’re doing. I’m managing “Band A” for one year, as an exploration of the music industry – and I don’t know what I’m doing.
I’ve had success sending out music by “Band A” to college and independent radio stations. I won’t say overwhelming success, but if I send out a “Band A” release to 25 radio stations then a radio station will play “Band A.”
I am managing “Band A” for the course of a year – and writing about it – as an exploration of the music industry. Playing live and touring is a big part of a band’s plan for sharing their sound, for seeing how an audience responds, for gaining fans.
We have a long history with BROTHRS – we’ve been going to their shows, hanging out with them, interviewing hem for this podcast, and playing their music for a couple of years now. Goddamn these guys can write a song – bluegrass, rock, punk, funk, pop – they got it all.
Great Japanese punk rock. We’re into massive garage rock riffs, attitude – and a special bonus – we really love the male/female voice combination.
Classic 1977 punk – influenced by The Damned, early The Clash and the Sex Pistols – this is a catchy as hell song about selling plasma to take out your honey, to throw the real world away again and head back out on tour.
Cinnamon loves instrumentals – but it takes a lot for me to go for a song without words to dig into and analyze and sing-a-long. Every element has to be fresh and inventive and full of emotion and catchy as all hell.
Sometimes is seems as if the aim of underground music is to be strange and bewildering to the mainstream. So much so that when something this beautiful emerges out of the underground scene it feels like a rare flower.
I am managing “Band A” for the year. Often the escapades of “Band A” read like a shaggy dog story – but I promise you everything I write is true. It’s not been so bad: “Band A” are on a label (Kafadan Kontak Records), they’ve been played on the radio (KPSU), but they’re impossible to manage over the summer…
One part Rolling Stones and one part Rod Stewart and one part Dead Boys – that’s a perfect mix for great garage rock.