This weekend I looked at over 1000 MySpace Music Profiles. In short – we have a lot of work to do, people. What you need to understand about MySpace music is that your profile is, in fact, a website. If you were to hire a web designer to build a site for your band, you’d [...]

PR is a huge part of the music business. Major acts have an army of publicists that handle all aspects of their public image. Any band or indie label that’s serious about getting exposure, booking gigs or getting signed needs a full and professional looking promo kit. Fortunately you don’t need to hire a PR [...]

In the fall of 2005 the band Ok Go did something unconventional for a band signed on to a major label. They borrowed a video camera and made a video for under ten dollars. The video was for a song called “A Million Ways,” and it featured the members of the band dancing to the [...]

You’ve got the friends and you update regularly, now what? Well, it’s time to reach out and touch someone. Keeping in contact with your MySpace Music friends is essential in promoting your music, and it’s pretty easy to do.   MySpace Music is great because it’s like having a mailing list. That said, the traditional [...]

Here’s a great overview of things that you’ll need to do/get to promote your music. It’s pretty good, though it does mention sending demos to record labels which is something that we here at RSM frown upon (besides wasting your time and money, it’s a terrible waste of plastic – we’ll post about this soon [...]

Now that you have more friends than a coke dealer in the 70′s it’s time to start promoting you music to them. So, how do you do this? Let’s take a look at what tools MySpace has to offer and see what you can do to reach out to your newly acquired friends/fans. First, you [...]

So you’ve gotten 1.7 billion friends on your Myspace Music. Congrats! How many of them are likely to be into your band? Having a lot of friends on your band’s Myspace is nice, but when you consider that many of those might just be people who either didn’t care when you added them as friends [...]

When you sign up on various music sites you’ll be asked who your influences are. Sometimes this is just informational; it gives your profile some depth. Often, however, you’re being asked because this will define where you’re positioned on the site. This means that if the site is searched looking for bands that sound like [...]