Olivia Winslow of Rocky Boy Productions is a social media guru aimed to help bands and brands be the most successful they can by properly channeling their social media accounts. Olivia was kind enough to provide us with some tips/useful tools to help bands take control over their content, see what she has to say here!
Every day, I wake up in one of my recording studios. It’s sort of a necessity, because my bed is there and because it’s my bedroom. This probably sounds familiar to most indie music producers. There’s a whole world of sound and music that can be packed into a laptop and taken just about anywhere, thanks to the rise of and currently incredible quality of Virtual Studio Technology - VST’s. I use these to write and record music all the time, but I frequently find the end product to be lacking… something. The absence of “real” instruments fairly often translates to flat, bland sounding music. I can’t prove this — but I feel any listener, on a subconscious level, can detect fake sounds. Lend me your ear and let me show you how I overcome this, injecting realism and life back into the music and washing away the artificiality.
Chris Hornbrook is currently on the road with Senses Fail. He took some time to write a guest blog for us about his diversity and drive as well as the struggle keeping a career as an active musician.
Having played a countless number of shows on the East coast US, Underdog Champs are looking to expand, giving listeners a slick combination of catchy pop/rock hooks and powerful lyrics. The band will be embarking on a promotional tour for “Skeletons in Daylight” in early March to coincide with its’ release. We had the band write a guest blog about their experience recording the album; check it out below!
I’m Seth Trimble, guitar player for Shallow Side, and as we all know, being a touring musician takes a lot of hard work and dedication. But, that alone won’t necessarily cut it if you don’t have the proper tools for the job. Whatever your job is within the band, whether it be drums, vocals, bass, guitar, etc…, you need to make sure you have good equipment and make sure you keep it maintained to the best of your ability. I’m going to dive into my own gear here (not literally of course, that’d just be a bad time) and let you all know about the tools I use and how they help me do my job within Shallow Side.
Let me rewind to sometime during fall 2016. We started hearing mentions of some kind of ‘secret project.’ We got pretty curious, so we decided to investigate.
Spencer Sutherland is signed to the prestigious Ford Modeling Company, and has recently begun working with brands such as ASOS, Timberland, G-Star, and Bread and Boxers. Spencer talked with us about how he balances music, modeling, and more!
Mike Fishkin is a Los Angeles transplant (via Long Island, NY), aspiring actor and talented interviewer of emerging and established musicians alike on his idobi show, Gone Fishkin. His on-site coverage includes pre-Grammy parties,Vans Warped Tour 2014 and 2015, Skate And Surf 2014 and 2015, SXSW 2015 and more!
The Bergamot wrote up a guest blog about what it’s been like traveling from state to state over the past couple months, and the inspiration they draw from the people coming out to their shows.
