Dotted Thoughts: #1 iPhone Music App, Games From Gorillaz And Noisia
A round-up of the latest news and stories from the Dotted Thoughts blog (a part side of the Dotted Music project, which I told you about last week).
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A Love For The Game
Recently, Metal Blade Records announced a website dedicated solely to spreading the word of Heavy Metal to the masses, which they called Metal Blade TV. It is a place for metalheads to go and see video interviews and segments from some of their favorite Metal Blade artists in addition to other notable metal musicians and bands.
Three New Movies For Inspiring Your Musical Career
72 Musicians, Don’t Quit Your Daydream, and The Runaways. These are three new movies that I have discovered this week and that I take the liberty of describing as “inspiring” even before watching them.
Your Fans Are Your Life-Blood, But…
Catering to your fans, and making yourself their best friend can boost your career like nothing else in the industry. But if you don’t know your fans, you will never grow that audience, you will not build that reputation, and you will not sell merchandise.
Creative Promotion: DIY Or Leave It Up To The Label?
You have to treat your band as a business and put a corresponding effort into it, and yes – you have to be creative not only with your music. But is it all really about doing it on your own?
Jared Leto: ‘We’re Taking Full Advantage Of The Digital Age Here’
30 Seconds To Mars’ legendary frontman Jared Leto just talked to Ultimate Guitar’s Steven Rosen about the band’s third album This Is War, and some music marketing topics I really loved to see covered in this interview.
