The Lifted - "Never Coming Down" Behind The Scene

Check Out The Behind The Scenes Footage of The Lifted "Never Coming Down" Official Music Video Directed by Chris Cordova. 

Shout Out to Tiki TV for Filming Behind the Scenes. 

Here Comes The Songwriter Revolution

via TuneCore Blog

By Jeff Price

An artist’s copyrights should be respected.  The choice to charge or give away his or her creations should be up to the artist, and the artist alone.
When you cut through all the press releases and rhetoric of the RIAA, it boils down to getting the legally required licenses and paying the people (or entities) that control the copyrights to the songs and recordings. I could not agree more.
One of the many problems I have with the RIAA is not their supporting this fundamental principle, but their tactics and blatant disregard for anyone who is not one of their members.  Suing grandma and college students is probably not the best idea.  Pretending the world has not changed and everything should stay the same makes no sense.  In addition, in many cases their positions and actions stifle revenue while slowing the growth and consumption of music. But what gets me most upset is this:

How To Post A Perfect Press Kit On Your Website

Via Cyber PR Urban

I’m often amazed when I go to an artist’s website, and I look around, and I’m trying to find basic press information and I can’t. It seems that in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and Facebook Fan pages, and constantly focusing on your two-way conversations, we’ve forgotten the important basics.

Cyber PR President Ariel Hyatt breaks down the essential things you need to post your press kit on your website.

How To Post A Perfect Press Kit On Your Website

This is a revised excerpt from my book, Music Success in Nine Weeks, and it talks about an asset that no matter what we all face with new digital solutions, new platforms and apps that we’re going to be forced to learn, we should always remember: Your press kit. It’s up to you to post your press information clearly and succinctly, so that you’re easy to find and write about.

Posting an accessible press kit to share with journalists and new media makers ( bloggers, podcasters, etc.) is good common sense.

4 Steps to a Successful Music Career in 2011

Via Cyber PR Urban
 I’ve put together four steps to follow that will help you map out a successful social media marketing campaign to attack in 2011.
Step 1. Identify your goals.
Identify your specific goals on why your creating an online strategy Write them down! Usually physically writing something from pen to paper gives you a sense of responsibility. Post this up somewhere that you and your band can see it on a consistent basis. The worst thing you want to do is jump out of the gate blindly. That’s when you get overwhelmed, and frustrated. It always important to have a vision of what you want to achieve. This vision is really solidified by having actual visual representations of your goals.
Example:

1. Have 100,000 plays on You Tube
2. Increase online awareness
3. Get more downloads on Itunes
4. Build and grow my email list