NEWS
October 26: Blackstrap at Blackbeards
Our next gig is Thursday October 26th, at the Cave in Chapel Hill, as part of Blackbeard's Lost Weekend. Blackbeard is a three day garage punk fest held each year, put together by Todd of the Gondoliers and formerly of the Spinns. Dirty Little Heater, Dexter Romweber and many other rough and tumble act are playing this year. I'll dig up some more links soon.
posted by bendy @ 10/15/2006 03:50:00 PM [permanent link]
Hi, I'm waiting for Hillbilly Boogie side two!
said , at
10/17/2006
Soon...soon...thanks for checking in. Got's to get my cassette -> digital running again.
said bendy, at
10/17/2006
Here's some photos of the gig.
said bendy, at
11/01/2006
Commerce and Anarchy
So, you can now buy the whole of our Media Slut EP at the iTunes Music Store. Soon enough, you'll be able to get it on my preferred music service, eMusic.com. The iTunes music store was uptight enough to change the name of the record slightly. However, the letters the chose to obfuscate suggest an even ruder word.
We've made some of the tracks Creative Commons licensed, too. And I'm glad we did, because one of our songs caught the attention of a DIY filmmaker, Wrayer. He used our track as the theme music for a short meditation on anarchy. Check it out,
posted by bendy @ 10/15/2006 03:29:00 PM [permanent link]
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?
JUST HEARD
WEEKLY FAVS
LOOKING AT...
what else?
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