Still, if you want to talk about the underground music scene you have to talk about Bandcamp. The Moby Dick of the underground music scene. The great white whale. At the start of the Holy Crap Records Podcast we were listening to at least 50 bands a week on Bandcamp to find new music.
I am managing “Band A” of a year – and I have an idea for direct psychic intervention of underground music into the larger world. Boomboxes. I’m gonna carrying one around playing the best of Asheville, Australia, world-wide underground rock-n-roll. Kind of think it would be fun if we all got second-hand boomboxes and walked around everywhere with them.
I am managing “Band A” for one year – and during this year Band A will head into the studio at least a couple of times. They’ve been invited byKafadan Kontak Records to add a single to a Suicide (NYC band) compilation album, and then they’ll probably head back to El Rancho Morbido Studios with Edward Madill again in the fall to record some originals.
“Band A” had it’s first show in a barn. With six songs. They had a projector, a smoke machine, and a bubble machine – just to make sure. And all the adults left the barn and their kids ran around and played with the bubble machine.
How did I get into this? Into managing “Band A” for a year? Into the Holy Crap Records Podcast thing? Here’s the answer: a photo Joan Jett’s and Joe Strummer’s guitar, from an exhibit in NYC.
For the next two weeks I will be in Connecticut on the shore. There’s no genius on the Connecticut shore – so I’m actually going to put in some serious exploration of the music industry.
First, I am managing a band for a year – “Band A” – and I am blogging this exploration of the music industry. This gives me the platform to send “Band A” info everywhere, actively looking for scams and angles that bands can use to reach a larger audience…
What if after 1994 rock music got systematically catchier and more fun instead of more counterfeit than mundane?
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.