There are countless tools available to bands nowadays, especially when it comes to delivering your music on the internet. The focus of this post will be Bandcamp.com, which is by far the most impressive service I have ever seen for musicians. The short version of what Bandcamp does is simple; they host your music files and allow fans to play it and download it in a variety of ways. Big deal, right? There's a million ways to do all that. Bandcamp has gone far beyond what bands can expect from any other services. I'll try to break it down is a...
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The fact that Facebook and Twitter have turned Myspace into a relative ghost town isn't news. But it is still surprising to see how the once dominant social network continues to shoot itself in the foot. The one specific area where Myspace still has an advantage over all the others is music. It has a robust music player, and profiles designed specifically for bands and musicians. Over the last few years, it's become an absolute necessity for bands big and small to have a presence on Myspace. Among the best features of the site for exploring new music, was the local...
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In 2006 Fabrizio Siciliano "& Company" made an album as The Writing Birds. The result was a beautiful, moody collection of twelve songs called 'Camillia'. According to the limited information available, the band performed live several times between 2005 and 2007, at which point it just kind of... stopped. There's no blogs or articles to be found mentioning who else was in the band or why it ended. And considering the fact that the group doesn't exist anymore, it's only relevance to today's scene would be as a source of inspiration. But a great one, since it's way better than most...
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Welcome to Philly Rock Blog! We hope that you'll soon find this site to be a valuable source of inside information on everything related to Philadelphia's original music scene. There's plenty of room for debate about whether or not there is much of a "scene" in Philadelphia at all these days, but one thing Philly is not lacking is potential. The last few years have seen most of the important online resources for our scene disappear or change focus away from our area. The bands, musicians, venues, promoters, and fans all deserve a site dedicated solely to this scene. The time is...
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