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Independent Music Review

Posted by Streaming Music | Posted in Streaming Music | Posted on 17-09-2009

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Shepizzle is a new upcoming Indie Music review website which utilizes multiple authors with disparate styles and musical preferences. This means that you, the person who wants to be exposed to as much new performers as possible, can get exposure to a wide  and dynamic variety of Indie performers.

Indie musicians are a special crowd. They aren’t sell outs, they want to earn respect for what they do rather than water it down and push a new album out in two weeks, and they know the D.I.Y. lifestyle. Every city is filled with individuals who have amazing musical skills and may not ever be ” discovered “. Shepizzle wants to bring these musicians to you.

Currently, they have reviewed underground bands such as Victim Effect, Wolfmother, Imogen Heap, and Beirut. If you or everybody you know has great pointers and want to expose your preferred musicians, or your own band or musical group to a huge listeners, contact Shepizzle.com to get reviewed.

Indie Music Review

Posted by Streaming Music | Posted in Online Music | Posted on 28-08-2009

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Shepizzle is a new upcoming Independent Music review web site which utilizes multiple authors with varying styles and musical preferences. This means that you, the person who wants to be exposed to as much new musicians as possible, can get exposure to a wide  and dynamic variety of Independent musicians.

Independent performers are a special crowd. They aren’t sell outs, they want to earn respect for what they do rather than water it down and push a new album out in two weeks, and they know the D.I.Y. lifestyle. Every city is filled with individuals who have amazing musical skills and might not ever be ” discovered “. Shepizzle wants to bring these performers to you.

Currently, they have reviewed underground performers such as Victim Effect, Wolfmother, Imogen Heap, and Beirut. If you or any person you know has amazing pointers and want to expose your preferred performers, or your own performer or musical group to a immense listeners, contact Shepizzle.com to get reviewed.

Why Radio Won’t play Indie Music

Posted by Streaming Music | Posted in Live Music | Posted on 10-05-2009

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And What You could Do About It
As I clicked on a popular music business forum, I has been greeted with a question. “Why will not commercial radio play music by Indie musician s?”
My reply to this individual has been as follows:
“As a former Operations Manager and Music Director on both the Comm and Non-Comm sides, Let me break the reason down for you.
Commercial Radio needs ratings to get paid from advertisers. Most advertiser’s, on radio, are ad agencies. Ad agencies base their “buys” (sponsorships) on a fee per point (”CPP”) basis. CPP is based on how a lot of thousands of audiences a radio station could gain in a 15 minute period (or cume).
a lot of commercial radio [Program and Music] do not want to put thier ratings at risk, by airing an ‘untested song’ on the air. So what these commercial radio directors do, is, air music based on the national charts offer d by Radio and Records, Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) and Billboard.
The charts are mainly influenced by the major labels via promotions and strategic alliances.
Your perfect perfect is to do like Knarles Barkley. Knarles Barkleys’ single “Crazy” went #1 on the Internet and radio could n’t help but to get them the single on the air.
Get your music on music submission website s, make some noise online, and get a CD Baby.com account so you could get your music on iTunes and start promoting.”
I suggested this because the music business is going digital. Clear Channel has a partnership with GarageBand.com where they will feature a certain amount of new musicians every week in on their website. Since Clear Channel is the biggest and most innovative expansive caster in the music business, it’s just a matter of time before the other cowardly copy-cat expansive casters will follow suit.
The world is going digital, while radio continutes to operate using an analog business model. You can be successful in the music business if you vary your marketing model from analog to digital.