Promoting Music Outside of Song Fight!

[Caravan Ray]

i just found ilike.com, not sure how it will work out but i signed up... here is my page

I'm on there. They send me an email every week to tell me no one is listening

[stateshirt]

anyone tried virb, purevolume or soundclick? they've all been around for a little while but i never got around with trying any of them out. they seem like sites with a bunch of music and no listeners.

[Project-D]

I've tried VIrb, it's pretty clean, (as far as html, layout etc) allows arranging music as albums and you can upload up to 100 megs. You're right though, not a lot of people are on it, but if you promoted it like your regular website (at shows etc), it would be decent for a primary free band website. You can tweak the html much more than Myspace, so it's got a lot of potential there, and it's not full of teenyboppers.

[HeuristicsInc]

Soundclick is basically the new mp3.com before they got stupid and were sued and all that crap. It's decent but the interface is a little whack. Not sure how much use it gets these days. Tapegerm has a site on there, it was our primary archive for a short while before we got our own archive.
-bill

[rone rivendale]

I mentioned soundclick before.

http://www.soundclick.com/mikebush
and
http://www.soundclick.com/destructionenterprise

are easily the 2 best pages on there.

[stateshirt]

So if you were looking to spend a bunch of time uploading songs and maintaining multiple band profiles across the interwebs, you might want to look into all of these sites:

fuzz, reverbnation, jamendo, ijigg, imeem, skyrock

[muso]

Hey

Try songstuff.com. Unlike the others mentioned there's no song upload, instead you add the links to your songs elsewhere.

I've added links to streams on my own site, but the idea is that plays via songstuff will boost your chart position on other sites which is pretty cool. Unfortunately the also rely on graphics hosted other places as well (like photobucket) but they're adding graphics hosting soon apparently.

I didn't see songramp mentioned. A bit like soundclick.

Cheers

John

[melvin]

I just downloaded iTunes last night and to my surprise, two of my old CDs are there: The Gas Pedal and EP by my old band, Heater.

Check it out!

I think they got there because the albums were originally distributed by The Orchard.

The Orchard might be a viable option for SongFighters! to get digital distribution. I'm inquiring...

[ujnhunter]

hah, sweet... i'm downloading The Gas Pedal now from the Zune Marketplace... the EP isn't on Zune only Gas Pedal... i'd look on itunes but I'm a Zune guy...

[melvin]

Cool! I hope you like it, 'hunter.

However, I have a confession to make. I just realized that I outed myself for cheating at Songfight. I rearranged and re-recorded the Heater song You Belong to Me and entered it in a fight around a year ago under the title It Belongs to Me. Although I enjoyed re-doing the song, I don't think it was within the rules (or the spirit) of SF. I sincerely apologize to my fellow fighters.

[rone rivendale]

That's alright Melvin. I've noticed you copying other artists in your songs alot (like part of the Hulk Hogan theme Real American in your Big Yankee Fan song) so copying yourself isn't that much different.

[melvin]

That's alright Melvin. I've noticed you copying other artists in your songs alot (like part of the Hulk Hogan theme Real American in your Big Yankee Fan song) so copying yourself isn't that much different.

Touché.

[obscurity]

That's alright Melvin.

Y'know, it's not alright. Cheating sucks, and if we pretend it doesn't everyone's gonna be cheating and then, well, what's the point of the whole thing?

[melvin]

That's alright Melvin.

Y'know, it's not alright. Cheating sucks, and if we pretend it doesn't everyone's gonna be cheating and then, well, what's the point of the whole thing?

I tend to agree. It was a bad judgment on my part. I really am sorry. It'll never happen again.