I'm recording an indie EP. what the fuck do i do when it's finished to promote it?

i'm recording an indie EP. what the fuck do i do when it's finished to promote it?

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...how do i get it on shit like college radio and spotify playlists? who are some good indie PR groups? money is not an issue, i just don't want to be caught in the sea of mediocre bandcamp indie acts because my music is genuinely pretty good

Not make threads on Sup Forums.

Play some house shows or bars. Getting into the local scene is much better that becoming a SoundCloud meme artist.

Give your demo to Dennis Wilson, he'll introduce you to producer Terry Melcher, and you'll be on your way.

i'm already in the local scene pretty good. problem is i'm a studio junkie and not really much of an entertainer.

I've gotten the best responses by spamming it on reddit. If it's good and you've posted it in the right place, it should be well received. If it sucks, you post it in the wrong place or you're just unlucky, it will be ignored or deleted.

posting it on Sup Forums is a waste of time

Shill the shit out of it by making your album cover an anime girl and posting it constantly on Sup Forums's music board.

give your demo out at parties
cold send it to record labels you like
shitpost it on Sup Forums until you have a sizeable following

I kinda feel like record labels aren't useful anymore, at least the small niche ones. The ones I looked at seemed to have sales that weren't dramatically larger than what you can get on bandcamp as a solo artist. Plus they take part of the cut. Labels are only useful if they're big, and the big ones very often won't accept unsolicited demos.

first you finish it

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I would never listen to an album with an anime girl cover

I feel like Renard is a good example of how you can market shitty music by pandering to stupid people. And the lo-fi hip hop thing. If you aim it at people who aren't discerning and package it in a way that they like, there's likely a chance shot of success than competent music aimed at a general audience.

Find out where John Maus lives and send him a tape and a letter saying that you truly believe you're something special.

You don't need to promote it. The music will speak for itself, if it's good, it'll get organic buzz from people hearing it and talking about it

lol no

shill it on Sup Forums

reminder that renard sexually assaulted a girl while she was sleeping

i'll consider it but i'm talking more about indie pr groups user. like hiring professionals to get my music onto spotify playlists or on college radio or written up in indie publications or whatever. a step above shilling myself on reddit.

i would unironically want to get signed to a label just for press and distribution. i don't need to make money at all but also wouldn't be touring because i think it's a waste of time for indie music in current year. i just want to make good albums. i'm not sure labels would want that kind of arrangement.

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i don't really get maus as far as why he is hyped. ariel is on a different level as a songwriting talent. boundless creativity and catchiness.

that's a meme user. no one really knows what makes music good or bad these days, you're stilling buying an image. i know indie bands who are as good as any captured tracks-tier band Sup Forums dickrides but they're broke as fuck and unknown. image and PR matter even in indie, maybe even more honestly.

did you listen to Big Black's Songs About Fucking?

Stick it on Bandcamp and shill it here.

1) give up, because if you definitivamente e yourself as "indie", you have no idea what you are trying to do

you'll need the internet, you're a day late

Yeah, I don't really get Maus either. I was just memeing since there was a thread couple of weeks ago where someone had found out where he lives and he sent him some of his music and the answer he got from Maus wasn't very friendly. He deserved it though.

Make a music video for it and stick it on Pornhub under some double endendre as the title.

Newgrounds? DeviantArt? Get your local radio station to play some of the songs? Paint a mural of the album cover on a few places around your town. Make a colorful, mysterious box and put a CD player, headphones and your song inside it and see how many people cover it? Write snippets of your lyrics along with your album title and place them around your neighborhood? Get old teachers to enjoy it? Play a few at your (presumably) former high school/university?

Just thinking out loud. If you could talk more about the ideas surrounding your album, work from there.

The correct answer is to get a distrokid account and pay 20 bux per year to have it on various digital platforms. Record companies are regretful garbage.

being this invested in the social commodification of music

kys user

a shitty indie label can promote you better than nothing plus if you actually are good you could end up being the label's iron horse

I didn't go to Terry Melcher, Terry Melcher came to me! He come to me with money in his hands, I didn't ask him. I wasn't knocking someone's door down, I was running from that. When I got out, I had that I was already through that. I had the studio, I went to the studio, I went to Vox Studios. I had it all and I looked at it and said, "This is a bigger jail then I just got out of." I don't want to take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag, and 10 or 15 girls. What the hell do I wanna go to work for? Work for what, Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king man. I run the underworld guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around act like I'm some teenybopper somewhere for someone else's money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards.

i like the effort sir, thanks. will def get on local radio but it's all sort of a box as far as the local scene leading to exposure. a lot of my friends do that and it just doesn't reach people outside of other local musicians and a handful of fans these days. i'm trying to get to the mid-tier level of a band like protomartyr or parquet courts without touring all over the world. starting to doubt the feasibility of it even if my songs are on that level.

the problem is every musician is doing that. so you have to listen to 500 garbage albums just to find my music. i need a PR group to send my EP to relevant publications. it's more like a political connection kind of thing.

Op do you have a soundcloud or something? I wanna hear your stuff.

i am actually good not larping, i just don't have that frontman mentality which is why i didn't just go from high school or college into a band and do it that way like everyone else. i'm not an entertainer and hate playing live unless it's jazz or some improvisational shit not just performing your indie album on a stage.
i can play a lot of instruments, i play all the shit on my recordings kevin parker style and am a good lyricist, solid voice probably better than most indie singers but not classical level. i'm even a good looking dude just autistically unable to perform and be a frontman. 2017 is the first year that i actually think i have a realistic shot to get buzz because of how little playing live shows seems to matter these days.

>indie
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op pls post soundcloud link

nah i'm working on the recordings for the first EP now. it will take another couple months too, i'm gonna have it produced really well, not fucking around with lo fi or diy shit at this point.

Do you have demos or some shit?

the only thing i have online is a really shitty diy experimental-indie thing i did about 5 years ago under a different name. it has some cool soundscapes i guess but i was in a huge animal collective phase back then and i really don’t like that washed out shit at this point. but i mean you can hear my voice and lyrics and sense of melody and shit. it’s pretty creative i guess for a first project but i don't tell anybody about it kek

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use headphones otherwise it gets washed out.

portalcoin.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-steps-traced-from-the-spires

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how do i follow you so i know when the ep gets released?

shooting guard is the new name. i have a facebook page and will post it there when it's released. i'm thinking march 2018. it is polarizingly different from that shit up there though.

link boyo

>Renard
The Stravinsky ballet?

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