Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist

Re:Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist by mahmud on Saturday July 11, 2009 @12:01PM (#699307)

My girlfriend is a musician and my one wish from the startup community working in the music scene is to kill both "management" and the bookies.

If anybody is working on democratizing event organization, marketing and ticket sales, you have our full support, participation and feedback. Ask away and I/she will tell you.

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Re:Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist by leviathant on Saturday July 11, 2009 @01:18PM (#699372)

You should check out Martin Atkin's book "Tour Smart." It should be mandatory reading for anyone involved in live music in just about any capacity. Seriously, a really, really good read, something I wish I had when I was still gigging.

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Re:Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist by dflock on Saturday July 11, 2009 @12:54PM (#699354)

I'm not an expert, but these things come to mind:

Tickets: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002975.php http://www.ticketleap.com/

Organisation & Marketing: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/ Public Google Calendar Your blog & your website

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Re:Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist by steveklabnik on Saturday July 11, 2009 @05:41PM (#699555)

There's a local (to me) startup called ShowClix that's trying to do some cool things with ticketing.

http://www.showclix.com/

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Re:Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist by pageman on Sunday July 12, 2009 @01:39PM (#700346)

try Derek Sivers' http://sivers.org/muckwork and to push your music extra-fast to iTunes for FREE, try WaTunes (disclaimer, used to be their evangelist), for physical distro - go cdbaby.com

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