Starting out as an indie has many problems, obne of which is getting a review (CD or song) to publish on your site or use in promo material.
So I thought it might be an idea to link up with a small number of people in the same position as yourself (say no more than four artists) and each agree to do a review of the other members product. If everyone comes up with the goods then each person ends up with four reviews to get them started.
The benefit of this is speed, it can take months to get other review services to review your product, with a small group like this you can get some feedback with say a couple of weeks at most.
You also get some extra kudos for the reviewer by billing the reviewer's name and which band they play for etc. and push the reviewer's web site address.
The only flaw in the proposition would be if no-one liked your stuff ;-( but maybe people could be a little kind to each other as we're all in the same boat? Or just say 'sorry' can't get into this in which case there'd be no reciprocal review coming back. But the chances of this could be lessened if people get together who are in a similar genre, or at least have a wide ranging musical taste.
Using this method you could get some reviews in and ready to use/publish at an ealrly stage, maybe whilst you're waiting for the CD's to come back from mastering etc.
The group could agree on a foramt for the review and roughly how many words would be expected (so one person doesn't write 'war and peace' whilst the other writes a coupla lines)
I'd suggest keeping the numbers down to say 4 people per group as it would take some time to review someone's work and do it justice, 4 albums you could probably manage over the course of a week or so maybe.
So any views?
So I thought it might be an idea to link up with a small number of people in the same position as yourself (say no more than four artists) and each agree to do a review of the other members product. If everyone comes up with the goods then each person ends up with four reviews to get them started.
The benefit of this is speed, it can take months to get other review services to review your product, with a small group like this you can get some feedback with say a couple of weeks at most.
You also get some extra kudos for the reviewer by billing the reviewer's name and which band they play for etc. and push the reviewer's web site address.
The only flaw in the proposition would be if no-one liked your stuff ;-( but maybe people could be a little kind to each other as we're all in the same boat? Or just say 'sorry' can't get into this in which case there'd be no reciprocal review coming back. But the chances of this could be lessened if people get together who are in a similar genre, or at least have a wide ranging musical taste.
Using this method you could get some reviews in and ready to use/publish at an ealrly stage, maybe whilst you're waiting for the CD's to come back from mastering etc.
The group could agree on a foramt for the review and roughly how many words would be expected (so one person doesn't write 'war and peace' whilst the other writes a coupla lines)
I'd suggest keeping the numbers down to say 4 people per group as it would take some time to review someone's work and do it justice, 4 albums you could probably manage over the course of a week or so maybe.
So any views?