Those of you familiar with the fairly popular music blog “Eardrums” may or may not be aware of the net label associated with it “Eardrums pop“.
If you’re not, it might be worth pointing your peepers squarely at this website. The blog has for some time dedicated itself to promoting little known indie artists. The label is an online, music distributing extension of this.
Anyway, if you’re some kind of songwriter looking to have your music released and given attention then you can submit your music to the label’s SoundCloud drop box. If you’re not a self obsessed musician and are just looking for some new listening material you may want to take a look too. The label will be releasing digital singles each month. Here is the most recent. For more, visit their website by clicking here.
A little bit of pop-related fun over at the Guardian’s blog site. They’ve picked a few bands that they think are headed for stardom in the near future, and are charting their progress on a performance graph, punctuated by points of interest on the artist’s calendar and assigning them a score out of 100. It’s a bit like interactive top trumps with indie bands, but quite interesting to note what the media takes notice of.
There are some great sites out there that are really trying to help unsigned bands, one of which I like to think is our service. A new site that I came across today is Bands Under The Radar.
Bands Under The Radar is a site that likes to highlight bands from all over the world who are going completely unnoticed at the moment. The sites uses technology from Top Spin media to offer a great list of Mp3s on their site for a very little price. The last example is their download 100 songs for only $10.
King Courgette are Poppa ‘King’ Courgette, String Bean Slim, Bad Apple Two T’s Curtis, Hot Chilli McGrath and Zucchini Bill. Named after a hilarious incident down Poppa Courgette’s allotment (well, he thinks it’s hilarious so let’s all try and keep it that way), we play a lot of old-time blues tunes by the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and The Stanley Brothers, and try to give them our own unique ’Courgette’ sound. Banjo, harmonica, mandolin and ukulele all feature along the way, plus our percussionist Zucchini Bill is a fine purveyor of both hambone and self-harm (he is classically trained at the latter). We can be found playing one-off gigs in and around the York area. At a recent private function, we were upstaged by the unveiling of the buffet, but hey, usually we get a good response, once the beer kicks in. In fact, somebody came up to us recently and told us we had a “touch of The Wurzels”. Apparently this is a compliment. Hopefully it’s not true. Well you can decide for yourselves by having a listen to Hesitation Blues, our version of a Blind Reverend Gary Davies song. (no, not THAT Gary Davies). It’s taken from our debut CD entitled Diggin’. We recorded it earlier this year at the fantastic Soundmill Studios in Leeds. We have an old-fashioned physical version sold through shops and at gigs, plus of course, thanks to the good people of Routenote, it is now available globally in digital form. A track was recently featured on the legendary Tom Robinson’s 6Music show. (Our ambition is to get on the Bob Harris show – anyone who can help us with this would be very very loved!!!) If you want to come and see us in action, we are playing the Victoria Vaults, Nunnery Lane, York on Friday 20th November (entrance free). We have also been asked to support the Cangalosi Cards at Banjo Jim’s in New York in the near future, thereby giving us all a quick holiday and keeping up our impressive record of only playing gigs at places with ‘York’ in their name. Well, thanks for reading this. Why not pop by to our Myspace page and say hello!!!
While there’s been something of a lukewarm reception to Google’s limited music search, it does represent the thin end of the wedge for the search giant; they’ve seldom abandoned a project mid flow. Despite the lack of results on most artists, it will definitely pay off in the long run to make yourself more noticeable in Google’s eyes, so you might want to check our this post over on CNET’s music blog about how to keep yourself high in the search rankings, at least for your own name. It also pays to maintain a Wikipedia entry for yourself, as you can provide your own outlinks, and the Google search will draw bio information from your Wiki entry, so here’s a link to the page where you can do so.
While there’s been something of a lukewarm reception to Google’s limited music search, it does represent the thin end of the wedge for the search giant; they’ve seldom abandoned a project mid flow. Despite the lack of results on most artists, it will definitely pay off in the long run to make yourself more noticeable in Google’s eyes, so you might want to check our this post over on CNET’s 