I’m going to do this once – a mass mailing of Band A’s CD to radio stations and publications. It seems that some radio stations want CDs (WNCW, KDRW, WFMU) – so I’m sending out a PRESS PACKET to 30 stations and publications.
I am managing “Band A” for a year – I like them and I have free reign to use them in my exploration of the music industry. But I want to be very clear – I am not making claims that “Band A” is better than other bands we play on the podcast or other bands I know from the Asheville scene.
I am managing “Band A” for one year, because I’m fascinated by the music economy, and by the question of how artists become economically self-sufficient.
I am managing a band for a year – “Band A.” I am attaching photos just so there is proof of this next part of the story: How I had toothache and how “Band A” got on a label…
This year I am managing “Band A.” The stated goals are to get “Band A” onto a record label, to play at a festival, and to get 100 people to a regular show. I started this investigation because no one seemed to understand the current music business.
The nitty and gritting of getting a record out. Band management is not all-sexiness, all-the-time. Although, my style of band management is mostly being sexy all-the-time. How do you get your music out into the world? In physical form and on major online platforms?
“Band A” had their album release party on Thursday night. I inflated 99 helium balloons. I actually inflated about 50 balloons, made the band blow up 25 balloons and toss them around, and that was it. It looked like a demented kids birthday party – especially as the bass player, who resembles a grumpy Bilbo Baggins, wore a floral frock and combat boots.
Band Management: Blog 16: Father/Daughter Records So I had the great privilege to interview Jessi Frick of Father/Daughter Records this week. You don’t understand the significance of this label to me.
Jessi Frick of Father/Daughter Records talks about the role of the independent label in the music market place.