Social Networking Sites

I am convinced that every one in the world has a myspace page. I think its impossible to be considered an entertainer and not have a social networking site to view. Interested parties should be able to simply type your name and click. Its important to get outside the box with your networking. There is more to offer online then myspace and facebook. Take the time to check each of these sites out and stay connected!

AmieStreet.com - A social network and music marketplace for indie artists. They give the artists 70% of the sale.

AnyGig.com - A place for musicians to get listed for small gigs, or find venues to play at.

Artistopia.com - An online venue for performers to give themselves an online presence with a profile and display their work.

BandBuzz.com - A social network where artists can set up a profile, upload their music and get reviewed and recommended by users.

BandChemistry.com - A site for musicians to find new members for their group or form a whole new band.

Bandwagon.co.uk - A social network for lovers of indie music where the bands can sell mobile content such as ringtones and wallpapers.

ChampionSound.com - Free mailing list manager for artists, promoters, and venues.

Elisteningpost.com - A way for musicians to upload their music and sell it just about anywhere they want such as MySpace and Facebook.

FireGigs.com - A site with the aim of promoting unsigned bands by arranging to get their music to be played in the background at cafes, coffee shops and more. Also promote you through a Facebook app and MySpace widget.

Fuzz.com - Lets performers upload their music sell it, as well as manage mailing lists and more.

HumbleVoice.com - A place for all types of independent artists, including musicians, to upload their work and promote it.

iJamr.com - Indie musicians upload their music and bloggers can display your songs on their sites for free, and if a sale is made, they blogger gets a cut.

Indistr.com - A company letting independent artists sell their music directly to the public and the musicians receive 75% of the sale.

mTraks.com - An online marketplace and network for indie artists to promote and sell their music.

Mubito.com - Allows you to set up a band website easily and sell MP3s. Two levels of stores with one of them being free.

Musicane.com - Promote and sell your music and ringtones.

MusicNation.com - A community of musician profile pages that engage regularly in competition for various prizes.

Myspace- A community for the artist and fans to interact

Panjea.com - Bring all your clips from the web together and put them in to one player so they take up less space on your page, so you can promote all your music easily.

PocketFuzz.com - A place for musicians to sell ringtones of their works and notify their fans of news via mobiles.

Popfolio.net - A music widget provider for blogs that lets independent musicians upload their songs for inclusion, and possible sales.

PumpAudio.com - A service for indie artists to get their music licensed for television and film.

ReverbNation - A site created for artist to manage other online profiles as well and various options to sell music.

Ripple9.com - A site to help bands promote themselves on mobile devices to their fans. New sign-ups are frozen while they are being purchased by Google.

Scriggleit.com - Software you can use on a laptop at your merchandise table so people can sign up for your mailing list.

SessionSound.com - A site for independent musicians to try to stay indie by selling their music online.

Sonicbids.com - Allows you to construct a low cost electronic press kit that can be constantly updated so the recipients always get the latest version.

Unsigned.com - A site for unsigned bands to put up a profile page and host a playlist of MP3s to attract new listeners.

New sites are created daily. If you don't see your network on here please leave a comment listing the address and service.


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Some Great Resources!

Whether you are a Label, Music Publisher, Artist Manager, Attorney, Songwriter, Artist, Band or Composer in today's changing business climate, you know the value of placing your music into film, television and video games. In their 11th year of publication, the Film & Television Music Guide is a must-have resource for everyone looking to make their music work for them. The Film & Television Music Guide lists Record Label Soundtrack Coordinators, Music Publishers, Music Libraries, Film/TV Music Departments, Film/TV Trailer Houses, Music Supervisors, Music Placement Companies, Video Game Companies, Composers and Composer Agents, Orchestras, Music Editors, Score Mixers, Commercial Music Production, Music Clearance, Performing Rights Societies, Scoring Stages, Recording Studios, Music Preparation, Music Contractors, Music Payroll, Music Services and much more. The directory covers the US, Canada and UK markets and lists direct-dial phone and fax numbers as well as email and website addresses. This is the most comprehensive directory of its kind for the Film and Television Music Community. In addition to this publication here are some others that you should definitely consider putting on your shopping list...

The A&R Registry - updated every 8 weeks ...includes regional A&R contacts not listed in any other directory lists all major & indie labels in LA, NY, Nashville, London & Toronto... lists entire A&R staff, direct dial numbers & assistants names...

The Music Publisher Registry - updated throughout the year... lists all major publishers and significant independents in LA, NY, Nashville, London & Toronto... lists entire creative staff, direct dial numbers & assistants names...

Music Attorney, Legal and Business Affairs Guide - lists music business attorneys... record company legal & business affairs departments publishing company legal & business affairs departments film & TV music, legal & business affairs departments has an alphabetical index.

You can find these and many more on www.musicregistry.com




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Sites for Sore Eyez

There are multiple sites to promote and sell your music to over the world wide web. Below is a few for you to check out and create that revenue from your songs.

Soundload Music
Boost Independent Music
MP3.com
Amazing Tunes
Apollo Tunes
Arkade
Artistopia
Audigist Digital Distribution

Amazon Advantage
Artists First
Beats Digital
Boost Independent Music
Broadjam
CD Baby
CD Fuse
CD Unsigned
Channel 4 Music
Choosik
Earbuzz
Emubands
Garageband
IAC
Ijamr
Indierhythm
Indiestore (7Digital)
Indietorrent
Intomusic
Inzu
Isound
Last.fm
Lulu

Magnatune
Masscharts
Memusic
Musicadium
Musicforte
Musicfreedom
Mvine
Mymusicstream
Myspace
Netunes
Payplay.com
Pixelunsigned
Purevolume
Rock affairs
Snocap
Soundclick
Totalband
Trackseller
Tradebit
Tunecore
Tunetribe
UBL
Undergroundmusix
Voeveo
War Child Music
World Music Service

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Blog Love: illroots

As this I do Music lifestyle sweeps the nation we got to give our Blog Love to illroots.com. A big shout out to mikewaxx and the whole illroots family!




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Top 10 Music Magazines

I thought this post might be interesting to those of you who want to know which magazines to hit up for your press releases. The following magazines are the Top 10 music magazines: (Many of these, such as Billboard, are read exclusively by Music Industry Insiders)

1. BLENDER
2. Billboard
3. Vibe
4. RollingStone.com
5. CMJ Online
6. The Source
7. Q
8. Spin
9. Entertainment Weekly
10. Variety


Toya Elise



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Discogs.com

For those of you who no longer go the traditional route of buying CD’s through retail, yet still miss the excitement of checking out who produced, engineered, and/or assisted on your favorite artists tracks and albums. Check out Discogs.com. Me personally, I love this site! The only downfall is that it is user generated, similar to Wikipedia, so that you risk the chance of some information being incomplete or inaccurate.

Toya Elise

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Global Grind

The Global Grind is a new start page offering, that is specifically for the world of hip-hop and music. The site is currently in private beta. I got a chance to take it for a spin.The layout and design of Global Grind is very much like Pageflakes or Netvibes, though instead of one default tab offered to give you a running start with the service, there are several. Each tab further filters web content to give you separate sections for gossip, music, news, sports, rap beef, etc. There is the ability to create your own tab as well. Most of the content comes from feeds, which you can choose from those the Global Grind has already chosen, or add your own. There are also "grinds" which are widgets, and include things like Google Maps, Flickr photo search and Yahoo music search. There doesn't yet seem to be the ability to add your own "grind" widget, so that's one thing I'm hoping to see in the future. One helpful thing the Global Grind has done is offer the option for the content to be viewed in an iFrame so you don't have to leave the service or open links in new windows. This is becoming a new movement that gives music, news and information in the world of hip hop. ~Craig u.~