4Hours: These chaps were the first off the mark and sent me a message that linked me to their website. I like their site. Good visual identity and smart logo. They describe themselves as a "funk rock trio". I must admit to being partial to trios (in particular Rush
). I think the fact that there are only three musicians means there is no room for passengers - everyone has to pull their weight.thelostofficial: These guys (or this guy?) was next to get in touch - again giving a website where you can hear samples of their/his music. The MySpace account lists Rush as an influence which is a good sign. :-)
Then some people started following my Twitter updates:
soundzeroband: Theses guys claim Led Zeppelin as an influence. Check out their website for more details. (And note - another trio!)
rock_music_: Not a band but a campaign. However they seem to be using Twitter to post music news.
And last (for the moment) but not least:
theauroraprjct: A progressive band from Holland who describe themselves as sounding like Pink Floyd
and Porcupine Tree
- impressive role models! They link to a website where you can find out more about them and hear some of their stuff. They deserve a special mention for a tweet that links to a free download of a track, Photonic Reunion, and for sending me a message to say thank you for following them. They suggested I review their music which I intend to do in a future post (and future tweets of course).So well done to all these chaps for being on the Twitter ball. Any other groups want to reveal their Twitter presence?
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Yesterday, Sofia Talvik released a new single to her Twitter followers for the "price" of a single tweet. If I hadn't already signed up for Twitter a few weeks ago, that would likely have made me do it. Even if the music isn't to your taste, I think, like you said, that this is the type of initiative that deserves to be rewarded. If record labels were smart, they would be all over this sort of thing - but thankfully there are independent musicians who do it anyway. ;)
I read an article recently that said record companies are now expecting bands to do a lot more of this sort of thing themselves. Where they used to sign and then market up and coming bands to help them build a fanbase, they now want and existing fanbase, built through Myspace, Twitter, etc. before they'll even look at a band.
Seems a bit short sighted to me. Already a number of bigish artists have realised they can do well without a label thank you very much. If a label isn't providing value added, bands might as well keep doing it themselves.
Has any other industry reacted so poorly to the Internet? I would hope that if an artist is able to create a decent following on their own, they would be smart enough to stay away from these dinosaurs.
I found another cool band to follow on Twitter. Moonalice has actually been "Twittercasting" (so portmanteriffic - I love it!) some of their concerts, i.e. uploading MP3s of the songs in pseudo-real-time. I haven't witnessed one of these events live, but I'm hoping they'll do it again.
"Has any other industry reacted so poorly to the Internet?"
Unfortunately I think the answer is yes - the film industry is probably worse. Thank goodness TV seems to be getting the hang of it with things like the BBC iPlayer.
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