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Arise August 1st
Posted by Ken McGuire on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
August 1st sees the official launch of Rewind.ie and Rewind PR as an extension of the Event Media family. When we haven’t been on the road, we’ve been working behind the scenes with a grand number of groups to bring you a new online magazine, a new online show, a new music podcast and a [...]
Address The Silence Video Released
Posted by Ken McGuire on Thursday, April 8th, 2010
VON BIZMARK have released the Address The Silence video, one day ahead of the official single release. Address The Silence will be available to buy in select stores from tomorrow, at live shows starting with The Mezz in Dublin tomorrow night (April 9th) and online via iTunes, DownloadMusic.ie and other online retail outlets.
The video itself [...]
New Live Videos from Clive Barnes
Posted by Ken McGuire on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
CLIVE BARNES has gone and released a few live videos from a recent show in Cleere’s Theatre in Kilkenny. We were on hand on the night of the show in February to record the full two hours for a later podcast and PR use, along with the videos for his new YouTube channel.
We’ve also released [...]
Von Bizmark on The Dalecast
Posted by Ken McGuire on Friday, March 19th, 2010
Having produced The Playlist Mix since 2007, we know that podcast exposure for independent acts can do great things, so our thanks go out to Steve at The Dalecast for picking up Address The Silence from Von Bizmark for its first podcast play.
If you’re a podcaster and you would like to feature the new single [...]
New Videos From Clive Barnes
Posted by Ken McGuire on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
One project we’ve been working on of late involved some nice video work for Clive Barnes. We caught up with Clive at an intimate show in Cleere’s Theatre in Kilkenny and walked away from the gig with 16 video tracks and over 90 minutes of high quality audio.
We’ll be releasing a few videos this week [...]
Pre Order Address The Silence
Posted by Ken McGuire on Monday, March 15th, 2010
ADDRESS THE SILENCE, the forthcoming single release from Von Bizmark, is now available to pre-order from DownloadMusic.ie. The single will be released online at midday on Friday April 9th costing €1.
Buying from Ireland
To get your digital copy of the single, text music 5491 to 57501 to add download to your account. (Texts cost €1, which [...]
Connect Your ReverbNation Store to Facebook
Posted by Ken McGuire on Friday, February 26th, 2010
ReverbNation brought their store out of beta and into the public domain, giving listed bands the chance to get their merch out onto Facebook, amongst other things.
We’ve been poking our heads around the site recently, encouraged by RN’s recent facelift as well but the latest addition makes it easier again for bands to connect to [...]
If You’re Selling CDs, Tell People, The Right Way
Posted by Ken McGuire on Monday, February 8th, 2010
There’s an art to selling CDs. I’ve seen acts sell albums to everyone in a venue, and seen acts go home with more CDs than they arrived with. In the first of a series of posts in pitching yourself at gigs, here’s a quick look at pitch your CDs. No matter how you go about it, at least remember that you’ve got CDs to sell.
TuneCore adds MySpace Music
Posted by Ken McGuire on Monday, February 1st, 2010
MYSPACE MUSIC has arrived at TuneCore, one of the web’s most subscribed to digital distribution services for independant musicians. Now when you go to your TuneCore dashboard you have the option of adding MySpace Music, distributing your tunes to MySpace and getting paid for streams from your profile.
Full instructions are available on TuneCore.com though quite [...]
Bandcamp Announce BCWax Launch
Posted by Ken McGuire on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Bandcamp, one of the online services we used in 2009 for the fan release of The Lions Mane’s Strands, have announced the launch of their new “un-label”, BCWax.
Taking two artists (to start with)who have a strong digital presence but little in terms of physical, their first release is a limited edition print of Sophie Madeleine’s [...]