Whether your in a band or a fan you need to head over to reverbnation.com. Kyle made a post the other day “What Record Labels Look For!” and this post will further teach you how to use applications like Reverb Nation and others to make you shine when you present to record labels.

The coolest thing about Reverb Nation is that it tracks all of your stats in depth. I’m not just talking about plays, i’m talking about where your banner is at and how many people are spreading the word about you actively. See the screen shot below:

As you can see it breaks your stats into 4 catagories Listeners, Fans, Street Teamers, and Promoters. If you stick with it, you’ll find out that there is nothing in this world that is more amazing than people that want to be part of your streat team and help spread the word about your band.

Once you get your music uploaded to Reverb Nation, fans who have the facebook or MySpace application can easily add your songs to there profile.

Even though this all sounds like cake, there still is a lot of work involved, and step one would be to start assigning who will be doing what within your band. Maybe one day someone will add friends on myspace and the next someone will work on Reverb Nation.

I’ve only touched on a few of the things you can do with Reverb Nation, please comment and subscribe!

(Click Play to listen to “Sulfur” By Twin Souls of Sulfur)

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Sending ambient sound waves out of Columbus, Ohio, Twin Souls of Sulfur really will take your imagination for a trip. We’ve featured some unique bands on this blog, but when you listen to this music you may find your self saying either WTF? or maybe where has this been my whole life? Twin Souls of Sulfur consists of Allison DeWitt and Forest Christenson, a duo that really kicks some major butt. Allison Does the singing and plays Kazoo, while Forest produces the tracks, plays the violin, mandolin, drums, and synthesizers.

To find out more about them visit them on MySpace.

Constantly, bands ask how do I get my band signed? Labels now a days look non other than myspace itself, they want to see how many friends you have. They are checking for how many plays you get a day and how marketable your band will be. So if you want to open eyes. Treat your bands myspace like a job, everyday add people post bulletins with your music player in the bulletin to raise the plays. Tell every person in your band to add 50-100 people a day and before you know it you will have a bigger fan base. Remember nothing will be handed to you. After you  get your friends and plays up start sending request to management and labels. Peace out…..

A few weeks ago we featured Der Bomber on the blog. Lately, they’ve been pretty busy watching the Euro 2008 soccer games and getting deep into songwriting sessions. However, now since Euro 2008 is over and Spain won , they were able to answer a few of our questions.

Haven’t heard Der Bomber? Press play, sit back and enjoy the chat.

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Der Bomber, is that German?

‘der bomber’ is indeed a German name, literally meaning ‘the bomber’, it was a nickname attributed to a 70’s German footballer called gerd muller who had a phenomenal goalscoring record, the name is a nod to all of us who support lower league clubs and christen our treasured star striker with the name (eg nicky ‘der bomber’ maynard), our politics our probably summed up in that concept, pride in squalor.

Who are you rooting for in Euro 2008?

I watched euro 2008 as a complete neutral but enjoyed watching Holland the most.

Your songs have a load of energy! Have your songs always been this energetic?

‘hard and fast’ has always been the rationale, i believe we are still yet to hit our top gear. the energy and passion are derived from the fact that we mean absolutely every word we say, chord we play, we were once described as ‘viciously intelligent’, that’s the best description of der bomber i’ve heard.

My favorite is “Swimming of Sinking.” What is this song about? Continue Reading “A Chat With Der Bomber(UK)” »

Who out there happens to be from New York? We’ll if you’re one of the ones from Long Island New York then you may get the chance to see “The Overunder” live. This band came together last April and already have collected a rather impressive fan base. “With a boatload of determination, energetic live shows and songs that will most likely be stuck in your head for days, “The OverUnder” is showing no signs of going away anytime soon.” These five guys have some very great songs make sure to check out “Circles and Squares” or visit them on myspace.

I was recently introduced to a new band right out of Northeast Pennsylvania. This group of five guys has some real amazing songs. Just take a second visit their myspace and sit back close your eyes and listen to the tunes, you’re guaranteed to love it. Make sure you listen to “The Descent” and “Run” those are my favorites. “They are known for the tightest musicianship of their unique genre that doesn’t even have a name because it’s so original. Their incredible harmonies are thicker than a milkshake. Their guitar licks are tighter than a squeezing python. Their beats are so phat, they need liposuction. Their bass has more boom than a boomerang.”(BT2 Bio) If you want the chance to see them live check out some up coming shows their booked everywhere on the East Coast over the next few months.

“Self-Titled Debut” is a group of five. If you’re from Queens New York you might have got the chance to see them live. This group consists of some major talent, Sal is the vocals, they got Gian working the drums, Mike and Tom control guitars and they saved Kris for the bass. They put their strengths in the right spots because all I hear is some amazing music. This band wants to play at warp tour and they are more than qualified so vote for them at here. If you want to here some more of their songs check them out on myspace.

Adam already told you all about Good Luck Varsity. Now I’m here to get up close and personal with them. Enjoy the interview and be sure to check out Good Luck Varsity!

First off i just want to say thanks for doing the interview and best of luck with everything in the future.

Thank you for asking us! I think your website is a really awesome idea!

How’d you all meet?

The origin of Good Luck Varsity is a really long and twisting story but I’ll try to keep it short. Essentially my brother Evan and I both played in a band called The Rising Tide. When all was said and done at the end of TRT we we’re actually pretty relieved to be done with it because it had strayed so far from what we really wanted to be doing. At first we recorded a couple demos in our basement and put them online and then we eventually recorded our EP Head High Heavy Hearted. We used the EP to get potential band mates interested in joining us and put an application up online. Richie and Tim we’re already our good friends and they we’re an easy choice.
Drew and Dan both responded to our search online and after hearing both of them play we canceled all of our other auditions because we knew that this was going to be our line up

Jordan, those are some rad YouTube videos! Anything out there that people MUST see if they haven’t yet?

Haha thank you! I guess besides music editing and directing videos has always been something I’ve loved to do.
Everybody should definitely check out “No, Frankenstein” I did the editing on that video and actually won an award for it

7 Members, wow, thats pretty amazing. What’s your writing process like?

Well we actually only play with 6 members live. Our good friend Jeriah is filling in on Guitar and vocals while Tim is away taking care of some things.

We’ve just recently started to write new music for a new EP that we’re planning to record and release sometime this year. Generally somebody brings the shell of a song to practice and we all work together to fill it out.We just recorded our first real song as a full band on Sunday and we’ll be posting it sometime soon Continue Reading “Meet Good Luck Varsity” »

We recently had the chance to chat with the guys from “Seven Story Fall” might I say this band has some serious talent. The lyrics they come up with are absolute amazing their completely original. You wont find songs like this anywhere, unless they came from “Seven Story Fall” This band has been though some tough times but no matter what happens they keep moving forward. Make sure to check them out at on myspace.

The name “Seven Story Fall” is a great name how’d you come up with it?
*umm when we first started it was just Hunter and Jacob and then we found a bassist which came up with the name I don’t know how but we usually just say its from when Hunter was on vacation and a kid fell from the 7th story it sounds more interesting haha.

So many kick ass shows to look forward to, which one are you most excited for and why?
*we are looking forward to the chiodos/from first to last show, were so excited to play in front of a huge crowd like what they bring in, its going to be a lot of fun and should help our career a lot

You seem to have gone threw so many members in a short time, Hunter what’s it like hanging in there through all the tough times?
*yes we’ve had over 5 different guitar players 6 drummers and 4 bassist and when we first started we had another singer for like a week haha, its really hard there’s been times I wanted to quit because it was really taking a toll on me, I was getting upset and frustrated and id let it out on people close to me on accident but I thought I still have so much time and I know I can do it so I stuck with it, but it is the hardest thing I’ve done so far
Continue Reading “Get the full story with “Seven Story Fall”” »