おことば

Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace - it's dying and reads as cheap / generic. Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don't autoplay). Constantly update your site with content - pictures, blogs, whatever. Give people a reason to return to your site all the time. Put up a bulletin board and start a community. Engage your fans (with caution!) Make cheap videos. Film yourself talking. Play shows. Make interesting things. Get a Twitter account. Be interesting. Be real. Submit your music to blogs that may be interested. NEVER CHASE TRENDS. Utilize the multitude of tools available to you for very little cost of any - Flickr / YouTube / Vimeo / SoundCloud / Twitter etc.

If you don't know anything about new media or how people communicate these days, none of this will work. The role of an independent musician these days requires a mastery of first hand use of these tools. If you don't get it - find someone who does to do this for you. If you are waiting around for the phone to ring or that A & R guy to show up at your gig - good luck, you're going to be waiting a while.



my thoughts on what to do as a new / unknown artist


トレントさんから久々に音楽業界どうする論でてきました。
今、無名の新人だったらどうすんの？ってここ数年ずっときかれてきて
だんだん意見がかたまってきたらしく。
うんうん。
ほんと、読んで反省した。
情熱、いる。
データベースつくるのも大事だねー。うん。
マイスペもう瀕死でフラッシュいらんって
うん、フラッシュうっとーしーもん

すごく面白いので、英語…読んでみてくださいな。