Client Spotlight: Jazz Guitar Composer and Teacher Chuck Anderson
“I have known Chuck for many years. He’s still one of the finest guitarists on the planet. Glad he is back on the scene”.
-Jimmy Bruno, Internationally Renowned Jazz Guitarist
For the past 8 months I’ve had the pleasure of working with one of the world’s greatest teachers and composers of the jazz guitar, Chuck Anderson. We’ve really come a long way over this period of time and chuck is using his blog and social media to spread the word and teach the word about his unique teaching methods. He’s even given me inspiration to finally get off my butt and pick up the guitar for once and for all, and I look forward to our future Skype lessons! Here’s a little background info on Chuck and links to his works, where you can see some of the work we have done together.
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Can the “Think Indie” Digital Music Storefront Save Your Local Record Shop?
A new report published this week claims that Apple’s iTunes has grown even more to take a nice 28% of total music sales in the United States, with Amazon and Walmart tying for second place; digital sales now make up 40% of the market. Record labels are pissed, as their empire of over-priced CD product continues to dwindle.
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Hard-Hitting NYC Rock Act Diablo Royale Offers Ironic “Name Your Price” for Greedy Dogs
Gritty Hard-Hitting Rock N’ Roll is what Diablo Royale is all about. With their sophomore release, GREEDY DOGS, the New York City based five-piece band further hones their sound into something original and “in-your-face”.
When guitarist Eric Choy and drummer Mike Sankari met guitarist Gerard (G-Man) Steixner, the seeds of what would become DR were planted. The three hunkered down in their basement rehearsal studio appropriately named “The Sweatshop” to write songs and find other musicians. As Choy recalls, “We wrote and auditioned twice a week every week for two hours every rehearsal…we must have seen over 100 people.” So after countless auditions over the course of nine months, the trio finally met vocalist Adrian Barrios and Diablo Royale was formed.
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20 Years of Pearl Jam’s “Alive”
It’s May, which means we spend a little more time talking about Pearl Jam than we usually do. This year seems to be a bit more pivotal than previous years, since the band is currently on the road, and this October will mark their 20th anniversary.
So, let’s kick things off with, perhaps, their trademark track “Alive”.
The origins of “Alive” can be traced to 1990 when Stone Gossard recorded a series of demos, while still in Mother Love Bone.
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Orlando Hip-Hop Group Smash City Gauntlet Keeps Bad Music From Entering The Ozone This Earth Day
Smash City Gauntlet’s new EP, There Goes The Neighborhood, keeps the carbon footprint off the globe with environmentally friendly hip-hop. This Earth Day, Smash City Gauntlet wants you to think about hip-hop and the environment.
There Goes The Neighborhood, features 5 pollution free hip-hop cuts produced by Optiks (Blitz the Ambassador), Abbott and Sneaka Freak.
“With so much noise pollution in hip-hop we wanted to put something out that gave back to the environment and made people excited to listen to hip-hop as loud as they can in their headphones,”
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Selling Out: How Much Money Do Musicians Make Online?
Here’s a wake up call to musicians – you’re not going to make a lot off selling just your music online – you gotta have a real business model. Thanks to Information is Beautiful for putting together the research.
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Ottawa Band Cherry Suede Hopes Loyal Fans Will Put Them on Stage with Rock Icons Bon Jovi
Cherry Suede operates differently than most bands. They distribute their music for free. They play shows at fans’ houses. They mentor other artists. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when they entered a contest that could get them an opening slot at a Bon Jovi show, they would find an innovative method to help them win.
Bon Jovi’s SuperBAND Tonight contest gives local bands a chance to open a Bon Jovi show for their hometown crowd. The contest is set up as a series of battles pitting four songs at a time against each other. Fans rank the four songs from best to worst, and then move on to another battle. The band with the most popular song wins the opening slot for the show in their city.
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Rock, Funk, And Hip Hop Converge WIth Koom the Ripper’s New Album “American Muscle”
Multi-faceted hip-hop artist, rapper, at times a singer depending on the hook, all-around descriptive, well-spoken, and delivers the heat in unique style with vocal clarity. Having overcome many obstacles and striving for self-betterment each year, Koom the Ripper brings substance and style to hip hop.
He is concerned with doing justice to the song; not concerned with feeding a starving ego. Diverse subject matter is the foundation for each focused song, featuring head-nodding instrumentals, and fresh delivery on the “American Muscle” record.
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Quiet Entertainer Wants You to Rethink the Word “DJ”
Quiet Entertainer is a one-man project from Greg Freeman. He's an producer & DJ who creates ambient electronica music while blending it with hip-hop. His music has been explained by his fans as a combination of DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, & Blue Man Group. Q.E.'s signature release is his Machismo EP, featuring both his sonic, ethereal production and Nashville area rappers to complement the tracks.
Q.E. makes you dance & trip out
Quiet Entertainer has steadily been doing shows and building a reputation for giving an amazing live performance every time. For booking, you can email greg@quietentertainer.com
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Using the Evolvor Methodology To Create A Killer Web Presence (Case Studies)
I’ve has the pleasure of working with a number of artists over the past year or so, whether it’s having a conversation over beers, teaching them through Label 2.0, or actually working for them. Below is a list of the latter, artists who have hired me to create a killer web presence. While a lot goes in to their development, I’ll let my work speak for itself.
Oakland, CA’s MC Azeem
John Gillette & Megastar Records
Brent James Rock
Learn Jazz Guitar with Chuck Anderson
Fudge Rock Band Devi
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Stone Temple Pilots Giving Away Concert Tickets
We totally forgot to mention that STP will be releasing their much anticipated self-titled sixth studio album on May 25.
Since, the band will be putting it out on their own, I’ve been curious about how they’ll be going about to promote it.
The first thing that they’re doing is giving away a pair of concert tickets for their upcoming spring tour (which will hopefully be used to pre-promote the album).
It may not seem like much, but it’s something free for the fans. I think they’re on the right track, let’s hope that they can keep it up.
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The Evolvor Music Marketing Manifesto for 2010
Hello students & clients of mine – whether you’re just jumping on board the Evolvor train or have been with me for a few years, I hope I’ve proven through working with you that I have the knowledge and ability to help you in your music endeavors. It’s a tough, tough world out there I know, and without a zillion dollars to dump into marketing and advertising, trying to “make it” seems near impossible. And I would agree that it is.
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A Rebuttal to the Commenters of My BandZoogle Interview
I want to first thank Chris from Bandzoogle for approaching me to do an interview for them; anytime I get asked to do an interview I gain a new found confidence in what I preach and teach and it feels good to know that people are paying attention.
It’s taken years of hard work to be able to understand all the different facets of the digital music business (not to mention marketing online in general to back it all up), and every interview I do I get to introduce many musicians and industry professionals my perception of how to get your name out there and get people’s attention.
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