Meanwhile John C Fraser started the funding for his third project – the Documentary Project. After the release of his debut album “The Odd One Out” he has constantly promoted his music. I talked to him about his projects and his further plans … 50K MUSIC: You’ve released your fan funded album “The Odd One
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Tim Bennett wrote down a few guidelines for indie artists – read carefully and maybe it will help you to get your music to the people.
Making an album always seams to take forever. I am rehearsing twice, sometimes three times a week with my band on my solo songs, getting ready to hit the studio and while it’s obvious we are making great progress, I can’t help but feel like i’m not moving fast enough! It’s that feeling of being
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Vote for Lunic every day from now until Dec. 20th so they can go on tour! Lunic are finalist in two competitions this year and they’re very close to winning them both.
On a sunny day in spring this year I was on my way from the village we spent our holidays to Ried in Upper Austria. It was March 30th when I was going to meet Stefan, the singer of meanwhile well-known cross over band Kontrust. We met there at a pub located centrally at Ried’s
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At the beginning of last week SellaBand has shocked Artists, Believers and everyone who is involved and interested in music crowdfunding business when they filed for bankruptcy. But shortly, after the dust has settled, it emerged that German investors would buy SellaBand and rescue the first company ever made fan funding a business model. After
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50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from,…? Please tell us something about yourself. Gussie: I was born and raised in Columbus, OH. I have family in both New York and New Jersey where I spent much of my formative years around entertainment people. My Uncle James “Blinky” Miller, was a music professor
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Another white hope from New Zealand is this artist here – Aly Cook, an established Kiwi indie artist with, I guess, an appreciable network in New Zealand. I talked to her about her previous experiences on SellaBand and her plans after the changes there: 50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from, …?
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September was a very interesting month for Slim Void. Having visited the famous Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire for a week to lay down drums and bass, it was now time to leave the quiet grasslands of rural England for the more continental feel of seaside Brighton. A quite nice city with loads of pubs, restaurants
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In this issue you can read about: Ellie Williams: her forthcoming album and her future plans, Interviews with Lucia Iman, Inge M and Aly Cook, Slim Void Album Log, Katie Thompson Album Diary, Johan Vosmeijer’s open letter to the community, “Live Show Merchandise Made Easy” by Netvalar, and Promising Newcomers as well as worldwide gigs.
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(by Utterly B Groovy) Well I was able to catch the gig at Mama Stone’s in Exeter last night – and great to bump into Adam Sieff as well! Well, great for me but I expect it ruined his evening What a great gig it was too! First up was a guy called Cole Stacey
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Yes, I can say. And Julia herself updates us on her promotion plans for Polish music market: 50K MM: How do you come along with your album promotion in Germany – I’ve noticed that radio stations e.g. Radio Fritz have played “Night of the Living Dead”? Julia: I have very positive response from the media
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Most of her believers impatiently await her upcoming debut album … me too. To shorten the time of waiting I asked Ellie about what we can expect from her, from the album and the next months: 50K MM: What kind of Ellie Williams album can we expect? Ellie: The album has 11 tracks on it,
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Like every month you get the latest information from Slim Void’s Ronny himself about the ongoing album production on Chapel Studios and this time especially about the consumption of cold English beer: The last weekend in August saw our second and final pre production weekend with Dan Swift. He came over to Trondheim to work
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The new album of the three Japanese will be released on October 12th (Japan October 7th). But Believers of EES will get their Limited Editions a little sooner. Roll out is announced for next week. And the Ninjas among the Believers (10 Parts +) will receive an exclusive EES patch in addition to their LE
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One of the next “album releasers” is this amazing lady from Spain – Lucia Iman. Her album will come out in autumn this year and I asked her a few questions about her time on SellaBand, the album production process and her future plans and about album promotion: Q: What were your experiences during the
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(Taken from the book of the same title by Andrew Dubber) 1 Don’t Believe the Hype: Sandi Thom, the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen are not super famous, rich and successful just because of MySpace, and nor because they miraculously drew a crowd of thousands to their homegrown webcast. PR, traditional media, record labels and
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(by Utterly B Groovy) As some of you may already be aware, the drive up to Cumbria for SolFest was less that brilliant! Accident after accident on the M6 meant it was a 9 hour slog – for future reference I would suggest driving up the M1, A1(M), then A66 across to Penrith where there
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