Monday, May 13, 2013

'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' When He Should Have Stayed In Portland


If your band has achieved local success, you may feel like it’s time to move on to a bigger city. Either that, or an imminent eviction notice might be good reasons to pack up and head for places like LA or New York where the streets are paved with phone numbers discarded by rock stars who have already moved on to supermodels and bad actors and/or actresses. Well before you buy that bus ticket, rent that van, or equip your guitar case for travel by way of hitchhiking (i.e., hidden knife), trying taking a step back and examining your situation a little more closely.

First of all, with the music industry’s increasingly cheap distribution system (the Internet), it may not be necessary. In fact, it probably isn’t. It’s easy enough to build your own studio at home, record on your computer, put your music on the web, and you’ve already done most of what anyone in New York or LA will do for you (as an amateur). With the exceptions of advertising in magazines no reads anymore or distributing your records in stores no one shops in anymore, There’s nothing you can do there that you can’t do at home. Moreover, you’ll have an easier time getting shows in your hometown, either because there’s less competition, because they know already, or both. If your local fan base gets big enough, it will almost inevitably spread and sooner or later people in New York and LA will be calling you. If that becomes the case and they want you to move closer to their operation, go for it. To make a fully informed decision, click the link below.


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