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Sun. July 16: Skating With the Oldies


It's an outside gig, so there will probably be sweating too. We'll be playing this Sunday with two other less-than-youthful punk bands, SAPCO and The Chest Pains.


SAPCO - Fall Apart
Chest Pains - DCny


Mr. Surly knows the SAPCO guys, and we've been trying to play with them for a while now, and Dave was a bandmate of Tim in Chest Pains. Like Blackstrap both bands have a sound the you could of heard at an American Legion Hall all-ages gig in the Eighties, 'cause that's pretty much what we were doing back then. This gig is a Jimmy V Cancer Research fundrasiser at the Factory Skatepark at 1839 Main Street in Wake Forrest. There will be skating. We're planning to setup right near the edge of the bowl and have skaters colliding into us. Full Details here. And to hear more, here's the myspace links for Space Age Polymer Co. and Chest Pains.

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Blackstrap is a rockpunk band that was formed in 2002 by several disgruntled music fans. Some had played in bands for years, some had never been involved in music.  All of us were upset with the direction the USA was moving. As you can tell, our impact on all that has been overwhelming.

We broke up in 2004, just before releasing a debut EP. We still feel bad about messing up 307 Knox Records like that. We got back together in 2005.  We might drive each other crazy again, so no promises.

We're a band that doesn't have many options as far as money and time and touring and all those other thing that could make a band be your life. The web is the main way we promote ourselves. We figured out we should share what meager knowledge we have obtained.

RESOURCES

or "Promoting Your Music as the Music Industry We Know and Dislike Dies...."

Websites are a lot of work to figure out, and don't work any magic on their own. Most people who view your website are already going to know you exist. Just having a website doesn't mean anyone is going to visit. So don't worry about securing an Internet domain right away.  Stick some music on MySpace, and then participate in sites that might actually drive interested listeners to your music.  Blackstrap gets more hits from our link on ncpunkonline.com than from higher-profile sites where we get lost in the shuffle.

There are advantages to having your own custom built website and domain name, but it's only as useful to the extent that it gets linked to.

Here are some sites that are important and help to get noticed. They aren't all music sites, specifically. Alot of them require participation. But hey, you wanted to be on stage, right?



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