Volume 21

Posted Wed April 8, 2009 from WOTT Music
Volume 21

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There is no single person that better embodies “owning” this town more than Aaron Hartley, the man behind Theory 8 Records. To look at the roster of artists and catalog of releases from the label it would seem that he basically has a monopoly on the quality Nashville music. Obviously, there are loads of other great acts in town but Theory 8 never falters; every release is quality.

This podcast features six Theory 8 artists (some of which fall under the Management umbrella of the business) and it’s a satisfying listen from top to bottom. We’re also rather happy to have two exclusives – one from the forthcoming Shoot the Mountain EP and one from Eliza the Arrow, the new project from Elizabeth Cameron (best known for Forget Cassettes).

Enjoy the podcast, it’s hard not to.
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Split the 7″

Posted Tue April 7, 2009

JEFF the Brotherhood will be releasing two split 7″‘s this Saturday, April 11th, at The End. The first is for “Bone Jam” with the flip being a song from New Jersey’s Screaming Females. The second is for “Mind Ride” with the flip being from Brooklyn’s Sisters. Helping them celebrate the resurgence of vinyl will be The Tits and Weiner (un-googleable).

Preview “Mind Ride” here.

Internet 101: Managing your Internets

Posted Mon April 6, 2009
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One of the hardest parts about being in a band is not the actual music creation aspect but, rather, managing all of the self promotion that must occur. Entering redundant data into your Myspace calendar, Facebook fan page, twitter account, etc. is enough to drive anyone mad. Fortunately, Web 2.0 is here to help with a lot of that. Enter ArtistData – a beta service that gives bands the ability to keep all that information in one place and let the service proliferate the data to the individual services. Currently, they boast to having the ability to 375,874 different services – an almost incomprehensible amount of sites. Of those thousands they do include the heavy hitters – Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, PureVolume and SonicBid; everything else is just gravy.

Having used the service for only a little while it is tough to make an assesment if it’s the solution to the problem – as other services like Bandize are on the horizon and offering similar services (with a prettier interface and more band-centric management tools). But, for what it’s worth, ArtistData is already offering the service and can get you up and running in no time.