SECTION FOUR: SITES WHERE YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR BAND’S MP3s OR VIDEOS

Double Stereo
PO Box 4397, Austin, TX 78765
PH: 512-825-9108
Sal Silva III sal@doublestereo.com
www.doublestereo.com
A free digital music platform for bands, and record labels (no sign up or membership fees). Our core business is music promotion, digital music sales and merchandise order fulfillment.

MoFro Music
Dave Creel david@mofromusic.com
www.mofromusic.com
It is a place to share bands, reviews, compositions, mash-ups, re-mixes and anything else music related. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to submit whatever it is they have to share.

Music Forte
931 W. 75th St. #137-261, Naperville, IL 60540
PH: 888-659-2867
Greg Percifield greg@musicforte.com
www.musicforte.com
As a social network, we’re unique in that we cater to only musicians and music enthusiasts. We’ve also taken a very intricate approach in seeing that our network is powered by the musical soul. This means that you’ll discover music and services that are relevant to you in a myriad of ways.

WaTunes.com
info@watunes.com
www.watunes.com
A revolutionary music service that helps independent artists get their music into online music stores like iTunes and eMusic entirely free.

CreateSpace
100 Enterprise Way Ste. A200, Scotts Valley, CA 95066
info@CreateSpace.com
www.createspace.com
Join our Community for help, advice, or to throw ideas around and collaborate with other musicians. Distribute your music on Amazon.com and other sales channels as an audio CD or MP3 download. Set the list price for your audio CDs and choose from a selection of royalty plans for your MP3 downloads. Use our online tools to set up your titles — they’re free! Since copies of your titles are manufactured as customers order, you’ll never worry about inventory and set-up fees.

PRS for Music
http://www.prsformusic.com
Exists to help businesses and community groups get access to some of the world’s best loved music, while making sure that songwriters, composers and publishers are rightfully rewarded. We’re proud to work for the future of one of the UK’s most vibrant creative industries. Let’s help the creators keep on creating.

Passionato
145-157 St. John St., London, EC1V 4PY UK
repertoire@passionato.com
www.passionato.com
300,000 Classical music tracks. More CD quality downloads than any other site.

BANDIZMO.COM
contact@bandizmo.com
www.bandizmo.com
The free music site dedicated to the exposure of unsigned bands and independent artists. Allows songwriters and bands to be found through detailed genre-driven search engines. It’s free to join, free to use and has relationships already built with numerous record companies.

myZOOZbeat.com
feedback@zoozmobile.com
www.myzoozbeat.com
ZOOZbeat is a gesture-based mobile music studio, simple enough for non-musicians and children to immediately become musically expressive, yet rich enough for experienced musicians to push the envelope of mobile music creation. myZOOZbeat.com enables users to save the music they create with ZOOZbeat on the iPhone and iPod Touch as MP3s, and share them using Facebook and Twitter. Users can also listen to songs uploaded by their friends, and to special featured and recent songs from users around the world.

ZOOZbeat Latin
feedback@zoozmobile.com
www.myzoozbeat.com
ZOOZbeat is a gesture-based mobile music studio, simple enough for non-musicians and children to immediately become musically expressive, yet rich enough for experienced musicians to push the envelope of mobile music creation. ZOOZbeat Latin allows the creation of songs with Samba and Tejano rhythms.

Musicload
T-Online-Allee 1, D-64295 Darmstadt, Germany
hotline@musicload.de
www.musicload.de
German MP3 download service.

SongCast
2926 State Rd. #111, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223
info@songcastmusic.com
www.songcastmusic.com
One of the World’s largest distributors of independent music. We have deals with iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, Emusic and Napster, allowing us to put our artists’ music in front of millions of music buying consumers. With SongCast, you can start selling your own music on these major retail sites right away. We also provide you with customized code to link your MySpace and other websites directly to the stores. Your fans will easily be able to find and purchase your music online. Combined with the power and social phenomenon of sites like MySpace and Facebook, it is no longer necessary to give away your musical freedom to a major record label.

MyMusicSite.com
339 5th Ave. #405, New York, NY 10016
PH: 646-670-6611
Brad Turk bturk@mymusicsite.com
www.mymusicsite.com
An online music community helping independent artist sell, promote and create ringtones with their music.

Music Gorilla
12407 Mopac Expressway N. 100-312, Austin, TX 78758
PH: 512-918-8978 FX: 212-258-6394
Alexia info@musicgorilla.com
www.musicgorilla.com
Exposure to major labels, indie labels, film studios and publishers.

Boost Digital
Level 6 220 Pacific Highway CrowsNest, NSW 2065 Australia
PH: +612-9460-1400 FX: +612-9460-0044
Graeme Logan graeme@boostdigital.com
www.boostindependentmusic.com
MP3 music downloads store for independent & unsigned artists & bands to sell, host, promote & download all MP3 music online. A MP3 store to buy & sell all independent & unsigned music online

JukeBoxAlive
311 Montford Ave. Asheville, NC 28801
PH: 828-232-0016
Will Cumberland cumberland@jukeboxalive.com
jukeboxalive.com
Our Advanced Jukebox Player protects your music from being digitally downloaded, yet allows fans to hear your music online. This creates exciting possibilities for you to present yourself to new audiences without being ripped off.

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O ye gifted ones, follow the path of your true calling,
for however various your talents may be, ye can have
but one calling capable of leading ye to eminence and renown;
follow resolutely the one straight path before you,
it is that of your good angel.
Let neither obstacles nor temptations induce ye to leave it;
bound along if you can; or on hands and knees follow it.
Turn into other paths for a momentary advantage or
gratification and ye have sold your inhertance, your immortality.
Ye will never be heard of after death.

George Borrow; Lavengro the Gypsy Scholar

Best Buy/Napster/$5

You can’t analyze this through the prism of Best Buy’s bottom line, it’s doesn’t even pay to examine this as a Napster issue, what you’ve got to do is pull back and view this from a wide berth, encompassing music in general.  Because we’re on the verge of an incredible sea change, we’re just about at the TIPPING POINT!

Streaming is going to rule.  One day, sales of tracks will dive and streaming will be the way people listen to music.

It’s been ten years since the original Napster, verging on thirty years since the introduction of the CD, soon we’re going to have a generation that doesn’t think of music as something physical whatsoever.  It’s about delivery on demand.  I want to hear this cut, how do I do that?

That’s what’s driving MySpace, that’s what even driving video views.  People just want to hear the songs.  If you can hear everything you want whenever you want, why do you need to own it?

Napster is a good service, in some ways better than Rhapsody.  Albums are listed in order of release, how the listener thinks of them.  Inventory is frequently better than Real’s offering.  Then again, sometimes the reverse is true.  And in both cases, there are always missing tracks, absent because the labels believe this will incentivize customers to buy them.  Ain’t that a laugh.

I use both via my Sonos system.  As for availability outside the house?  Not a big issue.  You see I’ve ALREADY got more music than can fit on any of my iPods, I can NO LONGER take everything with me…  And I’m sick and tired of stealing music, it takes too much time when I’ve got whatever I want at my fingertips.

But Spotify is even better than Napster and Rhapsody.  Because you hear the music instantly, and if you back up, you don’t have to wait for the track to begin again.  And Spotify is working on an iPhone app.

Give kudos to Apple.  The iPhone is about crawling from the wreckage into a brand new car.  Rather than worry about selling iPods, they’re selling iPhones, and the iPod Touch.  Now it’s about apps more than music.  Which is good, because just like ringtones, sales of individual tracks are going to take a dive.  But people are still going to want to hear songs on the go.  But they’ll be listening to streams on their iPhones.  Which will have apps for all these services.  But don’t believe for a second that Apple won’t compete with them.

The interesting story is whether Apple can build a monopoly.  With the iPhone!  The Palm Pre is crippled upon launch, as a result of being tied to the dying Sprint.  Google Android has got the same problem as Windows Mobile, no uniformity.  That leaves the BlackBerry…  An amazing e-mail device, a shitty Web surfer.

Just like there’s one iTunes Store, will there be ONE APP STORE?

The iPhone will need to be available on all carriers, soon.  And wireless broadband performance has to improve in the U.S.  But if you can hear whatever you want whenever you want, why do you need to own it?

Napster’s got the advantage of Best Buy, it’s got a storefront to move the product, which Rhapsody does not, Real needs to be worried.  But how much of a dent can Napster make?  We’ve never been able to convince the masses to pay for subscription services.  They’re saddled with the word “rent”, which has a bad connotation and certainly aligns with “evaporate”.  But Spotify starts free, and then you UPSELL!

More music

Today’s announcement isn’t about the viability of Napster, the impact upon Best Buy, but the breaking of the dam.  The move from ownership to streaming (a much better term than “renting”).  No one can compete with Apple on ownership, Amazon has proven this, even though they’re almost giving away hit product.  When it comes to streaming will we have multiple services?  Or will you get it with your wireless subscription? And hear what you want online via Spotify.

Utterly fascinating.  I’m not sure how the rights holders generate the revenue of yore, but it’s great for listeners.  Everything available at your fingertips!

MySpace inured listeners to streaming.  YouTube seconded the effort.  How many clips consist of just the song?  While rights holders were debating the future, it was already happening.  Mind-sets have changed.  Ownership is HISTORY!

From Contemporary American Slang by Richard A. Spears, Ph.D. -

1. cheesecake= n. a display of the female form, probably wearing little clothing, often in photographs. (Compare to beefcake.) *Women don’t like to see all that cheescake on the walls when they bring their cars in here to be fixed.* 2. n. a good-looking woman; good looking women *Who’s the cheesecake in that low-cut job?*

2. lifted=drunk/high

Wow!!  Have I met a couple lifted cheesecakes in my time!!

Currently reading: Contemporary American Slang : An Up-to-Date Guide to the Slang of Modern American English By Richard A. Spears

Buddha told a parable in a sutra

A man traveling across a field encountered a
tiger.  He fled,  the tiger after him.  Coming to a
precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild
vine and swung himself down over the edge.  The
tiger sniffed at him from above.  Trembling, the
man looked down to where, far below, another
tiger was waiting to eat him.  Only the vine
sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by
little started to gnaw away the vine.  The man saw
a luscious strawberry near him.  Grasping the
vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry
with the other.
How sweet it tasted!

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones:
A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen
Writings, compiled by Paul Reps

Monday Inspirations—Here are 3 weekly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something!28.  Tongue Smegma
Now this is for those artists who get a little out there.  You know that white stuff on your tongue that the dentist tells you to scrape off?  It’s tongue smegma.  I heard of a band named Smegma and thought those guys must have a great sense of humor!  and are probably very horney.

Government funds music rehearsals
Category: Music

Government funds music rehearsals

The Beatles played in Knotty Ash during their rise to fame

Budding British bands are being offered the chance to pursue their musical dreams in new rehearsal spaces opened by the government.

The first has been unveiled in Knotty Ash Youth Centre in Liverpool, where The Beatles played in 1962.

Others will follow in Bristol, Norfolk, Hastings, St Austell in Cornwall and Washington in Tyne and Wear.

Culture Secretary Andy Burnham said they were located in deprived areas that had few other youth facilities.

“These fully-equipped spaces will make a big difference for young people who are looking for somewhere to practise, spend time and find an outlet for their creative skills,” he said.

‘Valuable skills’

The scheme is being co-ordinated by former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey, who is now head of music industry body UK Music.

“The benefits stack up socially, economically and culturally - and hopefully some of those young people will pick up valuable skills and go on to work in one of our fantastic creative industries,” he said.

“The Knotty Ash facility will plug directly into Liverpool’s thriving music scene and local music business - encouraging creativity, bringing the community together and benefiting a new generation of musicians.”

A total of 10 new rehearsal spaces are due to open by the end of the year using £500,000 of government money. Locations are also being sought in Manchester, Nottingham and Leicester.

Source:  BBC News

Monday Inspirations—Here are 3 weekly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something!

27.  The Storm Never Stops
When we’re in the middle of a hard situation, and then another situation comes on top of that one, it seems like the storm never stops.  But we know it really does.  For the moment you want to express the feeling that it will NEVER stop, go with The Storm Never Stops.

Then put it on paper. 

Ontario proposes new law for online ticket sales
Category: Music

The Ontario government took aim yesterday at U.S. entertainment giant Ticketmaster by introducing a new law that would block companies from charging scalpers’ prices for tickets to concerts and sporting events on resale websites they own.

Monday Inspirations—Here are 3 weekly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something!

I’ve heard at least 3 songs that mention the name Stagger Lee.  How about a love song from a woman’s perspective.  Fun - dance tune … before Stagger Lee walks on out the door.