Mp3s
New Songs in the LC Jukebox
New songs are coming to the Jukebox starting today. If you are an LC artist and would like to submit a song for the Jukebox, please send an mp3 (must be 5MB or smaller) to info@localcorrespondents.com. New songs: State of Small Mind by Mark Lord Fool’s Gold by Luke Wesley Everyday Now by Johnny Marnell [...]
iSound: 11 Ways to Promote your Music through your Website
I continue to be a huge fan of the iSound newsletter/blog, which is full of real world tips for independent artists. This month’s article promises to be extremely useful. It focuses on 11 ways to maximize your promotion efforts through your band website. I’m sure these tips will apply to MySpace and other social networking [...]
iLike: New Artist Dashboard
I’ve written about iLike before. Firstly, because I enjoy iLike’s features as a music fan. Their partnership with GarageBand and FaceBook is brilliant. They’ve recently added a new feature called the Artist Dashboard. If you already have a GarageBand page, iLike automatically created a page for you on their site. You can search for your [...]
Amie Street: REAL help for indepent musicians
Amie Street is such a great idea and well worth an investment of time. It’s a free service for artists and fans of music. When you add a song it is given away as a free download. Depending on the popularity of the download, the price rises. Fans that recommend you in the beginning get [...]
MyStore: Social Networking Leads to Sales
MySpace started offering MyStore awhile ago. MyStore is a service through SNOCAP to digitally distribute music. Although it’s not iTunes, the great thing about the SNOCAP store is that it can be embedded in blogs and social networking sites. Right now, SNOCAP gets about 39cents per download, and the artist gets 60cents. There’s also an [...]
TexTango: Digital distribution through text messages
I am not going to sign up for TexTango. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great idea. And when I eventually, finally, hopefully complete an album, I will be coming back to it. But for now, the $19.99 price tag just isn’t worth it to me. For those of you with albums, you [...]
