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The Indie Band Survival Guide: The Complete Resource for the Do-It-Yourself Musician - Beta

The Indie Band Survival Guide Can Help You

"The Guide" is an open & free resource created for & by indie musicians. We collect & share all the useful services, tools & knowledge that can help you win fans globally by getting your music created, distributed, noticed, & heard. So join us today, share what you know & get connected with the rest of the Indie Community.

Pandora: CONGRESSIONAL EMERGENCY!!!

Listeners we need your help... NOW!

After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, artists and record companies are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and Internet radio. But just as we've gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a covert lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress.

Yesterday, Congressman Jay Inslee, and several co-sponsors, introduced legislation to give us the extra time we need but the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which represents radio broadcasters such as Clear Channel, has begun intensively pressuring lawmakers to kill the bill. We have just a day or two to keep this from collapsing.

This is a blatant attempt by large radio companies to suffocate the webcasting industry that is just beginning to offer an alternative to their monopoly of the airwaves.

Please call your Congressperson right now and ask them to support H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 - and to not capitulate to pressure from the NAB. Congress is currently working extended hours, so even calls this evening and over the weekend should get answered.

Internet Meme Scratch Attack from jamiew on Vimeo.

Whitechapel - DJs lets post some mixes thread!

The FADER - USA: DAFT PUNK IS HERE!

There were always people eager to expose the group’s faces. (This element still exists, as a video of the undisguised duo DJing at a Milwaukee rave in 1996 recently appeared online.) In 2001, Daft Punk hoped to eradicate this problem when they debuted their robot costumes along with their second album and first masterpiece, Discovery. Devised by directors Alex & Martin and built by make up and animatronics effects creator Tony Gardner (whose credits range from Three Kings to Seed of Chucky), the robots gave them a way to hide their identities, but were bizarre enough to keep Daft Punk culturally compelling. The press played along, dutifully printing quotes from the group stating “We are robots now,” and recounting their story about how their bodies were irreparably damaged on September 9, 1999, when a sampler in their studio exploded.

http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/flykkiller

FlyKKiller is the second collective project of musical collaborators Stephen Hilton and Pati Yang. Separately they have been at the forefront of avant-garde electro music, both bringing a wealth of experience into a band that in such a short time have already been seized upon as pioneers of the genre.

For their new project, the cannily titled FlyKKiller, the pair set about recording a studio album with (as legend would have it) an extraterrestrial called V; which when you hear the outcome of these sessions you can understand where such claims might come from. The gallant and incessant beats that have become the backdrop to Yang’s howling, stirringly poignant and harmonic vocal were, again as the myth insists, recorded by V who created these cubes (whilst in captivity in the FlyKKiller Institute in Poland) as a vessel in which to pass on her peaceful communications to us earthlings. However the otherworldly sci-fi cubes have been seized from her by her captors at The FlyKKiller Institute, and sold to fund their scientific research. Additional information is being presented via download and physical formats.

http://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com/

As of right now, three-day passes for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are no longer available. Those suckers sold out! That'll happen with tickets to the only festival that offers the remote possibility of witnessing an interaction between Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington and Public Enemy jester/VH1 reality star Flavor Flav.

But never fear, dear snoozers, you haven't lost out yet. Still available are $50 two-day passes for the Saturday and Sunday portion of the festival as well as $30 individual tickets for all three days. We recommend making your way to TicketWeb sooner rather than later.

YouTube - Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA

CC Music Sharing License

The Creative Commons music license helps you:

1. Mark It Legal: Mark your music with the CC logo so fans know that you own your copyright, but give permission to download, file-share, copy, and webcast — but not to sell, alter, or make any other commercial uses. Here's an example of how it would look on a band's web page and here's a short comic describing how fans might legally use your music.
   
2. Promote It: Register your music at Common Content so people can contact you to purchase commercial rights to the composition or sound recording. Or, have it hosted for free at the Internet Archive.
   
3. Make It Searchable: Make your music searchable within the Creative Commons audio search engine.
   

Gratisvibes - The Creative Commons-Licensed Electronic Music Blog

Gratisvibes aims to lead readers to the best of Creative Commons-licensed Electronic Music on the web, spreading the word for greater musical freedom for both artists and listeners alike.

YouTube - Alice Donut - Lisa's Father

DJs vote for your favourite club in the Top 100 Club Awards | trance.nu

DJs worldwide are invited to shape DJmag's Top 100 Clubs Poll by simply voting for their top three clubs on the planet. While their long-running and controversial Top 100 DJs Poll offers clubbers the opportunity to vote for their favourite DJs, this is a chance for DJs to speak out - with the aim to create a definitive list of the best dance clubs and rave spots the world has to offer.

Following the success of the past two years, DJmag's clubs poll is expanding from 50 to 100, allowing us to discover even more must-visit clubs around the globe.

London club Fabric was crowned Best Club In The World in 2006, before Space in Ibiza lifted the title last year. With more corners of the world opening up to dance music and air travel making the world a much smaller place, will DJs continue to vote for established venues or will some new clubs from off-the-beaten tracks make an appearance in this year's poll?