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Music Marketing

Marketing New Music Artists

February 19, 2010

A couple of stories have popped up this week that has me reaching for my keyboard – the one with letters not notes.   Alex commented about Suzanne Vega’s move to Direct to Fan Marketing and DMN noted that Sade just moved half a million units, going gold in her first week. Now I love both [...]

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Netlabel 101 with Blocsonic

February 8, 2010

We at Kilted Chaos love netlabels, I think that’s obvious, but the one we think is putting out quality releases right now is blocSonic. Now 3 years strong, the blocSonic crew are releasing a solid mix of netaudio samplers and original releases, and the quality of their recordings, and the attention to detail that goes [...]

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Marketing for Musicians & Fans

February 3, 2010

Forget the artists for the moment – forget about what the DJ wants, what the band or their manger wants and let’s focus in on you – the fan – the customer.  What do you want?  It’s great to get a hand written note from your favorite player – maybe a signed T-shirt or a [...]

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Free Chaos one more time

February 2, 2010
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Some labels get it…

February 1, 2010

And one i stumbled upon recently: PEAPOD RECORDS sure does! Peapod Recordings hail out of Maine and pretty much have everything well in place both in terms of design and with their marketing.  I am going to subtract points from them for only having their blog in wordpress, when the whole darn site could have [...]

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WordPress and the Music Biz

January 8, 2010

We recently ran a #kiltfeed on our thoughts about music marketing… Now I’m not talking here the marketing as practiced by the big guys that’s failing as fast as all other “Old Media” is, no, to be more specific – I’m talking about what up and coming bands can do to easily (and very affordably, [...]

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