Wall Street Journal Explains the Social Music Success of Bon Iver

Late in December 2008, the WSJ posted an important and useful story about Wisconsinite Justin Vernon and the road from north woods recording obscurity to having record labels chasing him for deals.  Beyond a great story for aspiring music artists, there are some excellent resources listed in the article as well including TuneCore.com, CDBaby.com and SonicBids.com others.

The WSJ story concludes with some wisdom about the Internet causing the equivalent of the French Revolution for the old music industry.

Wall Street Journal Article: Musician Finds a Following Online, written by Shelly Banjo & Kelly K. Spors

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First Post – Music Video Channels, Websites and Stations

While keeping track of websites dedicated to promoting music video COULD be filed under our category of Promotional Resources, we believe that the explosion of online video is so great that Video deserves its own category within our special resource.  Above and beyond the YouTubes, Google Videos and FabChannel’s, there are dozens more waiting to be adopted by the music loving general public.  Our goals is to ride that awareness wave and report back to the musicians and bands who follow SMMuG so they know where they should be placing their latest videos.

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First Post – News, Trends and Events for the NEW Music Business

Just watching the news events of the collapsing old music industry could be a website by itself.  As opposed to dancing while the empire burns, we would rather help construct the new industry that uses technology to connect independent musicians to their fans, friends and followers.  This News category will help document the new foundation being built for the music business of the future.

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First Post – Music Merchandise Vendors & Suppliers

Whether your band is looking to have your disc duplicated or a t-shirt screen printed or a van graphic applied, there are so many businesses to help you, that we will attempt to get input from other bands of the best of the bunch.  Is DiscMakers the best place for disc duplication? Who do you contact about selling MP3 or Lossless files? Who is willing to help the small indy, diy bands?  We don’t know either, yet, but we’ll figure it out together.

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First Post – Promotional Resources for Musicians!

There are hundreds, potentially thousands, of websites dedicated toward helping musicians/bands promote their music in some way, shape or form.  Among the noise, there are like a few dozen that can truly provide SIGNIFICANT benefits to independent artists & musicians. We will attempt to provide reviews and feedback on those MOST important web resources for the promotion of your music.

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First Post – WebCasters

This area will be dedicated toward providing profiles on streaming audio/radio stations that feature music by new artists/bands. With over 20,000 stations streaming music online, independent bands DO have a place to turn to in order to get their music heard.  The problem is know which of those thousands of stations will pay some attention to new music and new artists . We will BE that resource for bands.

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First Post – PodCasters

This category will be dedicated to review PodCasts that either feature or specifically include music from new artists & bands. This will not be necessarily a review of those podcasts, but more of an attempt to connect bands to those specific podcasters.

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First Post – Music Review Bloggers

This category will be dedicated to tracking the top online music reviewers/journalists/bloggers. The idea will be to feature blogs that specialize in reviewing new music.  Very similar to other blog rating/ranking services, but with special attention toward helping musicians connect with the right music review bloggers.

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First Post – What are Awareness Reviews?

This is where we will be posting up reviews of musicians & band websites and how well they are getting “social” with their fans, friends and followers.  I expect this to become a podcast of sorts with some interview potential.

More to come.

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Start-Up Post

This is mostly a test. Had this been an actual post, it would have contained much more thought and valuable resources for musicians and bands. This is only a test. -pjc

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