A multifaceted consulting firm serving indie entertainment artist, products, and services in the New York City Metropolitan area. Critical Region Consulting specializes in career building strategies, Search Engine Optimization, social networking and real world promotion.
Labels: facebook, pr, public relations, social networking
Daft Punk, the Parisian electro-house duo, have launched a widget to promote their new album, which links to pages on Facebook as well as other sites.
Labels: music business, music promotion, public relations, publicity
Radiohead has taken advantage of nearly every web-based marketing solution out there, but the band is taking things to the next level with a New Year’s Eve performance. New Year’s Eve isn’t the only “eve” that’s being celebrated here. “In Rainbows,” Radiohead’s upcoming album, is being released on Jan. 1, 2008, in North America via TBD Recordings/ATO. So Radiohead’s performance is using the turning of the year for a twofold purpose.
Labels: music business, music promotion
We believe that the key to effective learning is hands-on experience coupled with direct instructor supervision. With experienced instructors hailing from a diverse set of musical backgrounds, DubSpot's cross-genre approach to DJ and Electronic Music Production education gives our students a solid foundation to work with.
Learn Ableton Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Reason, Serato Scratch Live.
Labels: disc jockey, DJ, education, electronic music, entertainment business, music business, music video, schools, VJ
Labels: christmas, santa claus
Now we’re not saying this is the best of hip-hop, but we’re definitely saying, well at least I am, it’s the best example I’ve seen of an artist utilizing the power of the Web to break his career.
Labels: music promotion, online video, pr, public relations, YouTube
Face it - online video’s here to stay. The primary problem for newer content producers is the time investment it takes to get your content in front of your audience. If you’re looking at online video as a marketing platform or a distribution tool for your developed content, TubeMogul is a resource for not only gathering the statistical data, streamlining the distribution of your content, but how to shape your strategy and tactics in how you apply your time invested, and this report is a great place to start.
Labels: online video, YouTube
Happy blog-a-versary! Today is the tenth anniversary of the coining of the term that makes some of us giddy and others recoil in horror: blogging. If you subscribe to the view that says the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997, today's the day. It was on that day that he combined the word "web" and "log" to describe his personal journal online, according to blogging lore. Back then, the number of blogs on the web varied, with some citing numbers in the mere double digits. The trend has exploded since then, with new blogs coming online every day.
Labels: blogs
Labels: conference, music business, music promotion
Labels: film festival, filmmaking
2007 Collection of TheSingingSpot.com's free singing lessons (Over 20!), conveniently packaged in an easy to use software program.
Free with any purchase!
To use the 2007 COllection you will need the Free Flash Player (Free at Macromedia.com).
Labels: music business, singing, singing lessons
Labels: marketing, public relations
"Music samples must be received at the County Parks Department by Wednesday, December 19. To be eligible, all members of the group must be amateur musicians between the ages of 15 and 20."
Labels: battle of the bands, contest, music promotion
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
--George Santayana
