Monthly Archives: June 2012

2 Responses to Web Traffic, 1000 True Fans, Robot, Top Choons, Social Media, Ustream

1. GoddakkAttack says:

   July 1, 2012 at 12:16 pm

   my theory is that with kind of blanket canvasing of the interwebs for interest you wind up hitting more people who wouldn’t be interested in what you do as opposed to targetting specific areas. don’t ask how you find those specific areas.

   I’m finding all the music people are excited about is typically soundalike of boring music i hated growing up . For example without naming names, the band that got voted in boston’s equivalent of the independent as best band from MA…sounds exactly like all of those horrible bands in the 90′s that made me want to burn the clubs down. aka pixies wannabes with annoying whiny vocals. How is Silber gonna convince people that love that music to buy their droney, dark, moody records?
   • Brian John Mitchell says:

     July 1, 2012 at 3:26 pm

     Yeah, I mean, that’s part of why I’m trying to expand the Silber Empire a bit. People stumble across the comics or the review blogs or QRD & then they discover the music. Or maybe it’ll just be those other projects generate enough revenue on their own to subsidize the label rather than causing an interest spike in the music. I don’t know. We’ll see what happens. I’m feeling relatively hopeful at the moment, though I can’t really tell you a reason why.

3 Responses to Six Bands, Promo, Dream

1. GoddakkAttack says:

   June 30, 2012 at 7:41 pm

   I remember playing in NYC around 95 and thinkin like it was 2012.
   Forward hating.
2. Brian John Mitchell says:

   July 1, 2012 at 3:07 am

   Yeah, those New York gigs were awful. I don’t know what the obsession all of us have with New York is, the older I get the less I want to ever be there again….
3. GoddakkAttack says:

   July 1, 2012 at 12:11 pm

   depends what you want.

   as a band i guess you think more people per square mile more people at your show and more potential for people at your show that are in the BIZ. (although really that just means more people at the band before you who then go to the bar afterwards leaving you to play to your girlfriend and any of your poor relatives in town showing support)

   I like ny in comparison to other US cities. except for when i just want to find a nice quiet place to kill time.

One Response to Kid Comics, Puzzle Boxes, Promos, Dream

1. GoddakkAttack says:

   June 29, 2012 at 9:51 am

   shouldn’t the parent be doing the parenting here?

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2 Responses to Disconcerting Comics, Pow Wow, Promute, Zero

1. GoddakkAttack says:

   June 25, 2012 at 8:06 am

   can’t really watch the video but it reminded me.. did you ever see Nine (the animated end of the world movie)?
   • Brian John Mitchell says:

     June 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

     I haven’t seen it yet, but I hear good things about it.

2 Responses to Promute, La Jetee, Pow Wow, Malta, Long Drone

1. GoddakkAttack says:

   June 23, 2012 at 5:41 pm

   I’ve been thinking of ceasing with free downloads altogether, maybe just one song per album. I mean i’m going to make the album anyways out of my drive to make it but my drive to make it has nothing to do with people actually hearing it or being able to own it for free.

   While I like to give things away to people that want to hear and old fans….it really does the music a disservice i think for everybody to just offer it for free and it really doesn’t seem to be doing anything in regards to that age old argument of if more people hear it the word spreads and there’ll be more people at your shows and more people buying your album if they got to hear it first. (of course you could argue that if i released better music that would be the case but fuck you if you think that anyways :)) Seems like a load of crap in regards to reality. The people I find that really want to hear it will buy it even for little money. The rest just want it for free and not even if they’re inconvenienced by having to sign a mailing list and for those people i think if they have to stream it, that’s ok by me and if that’s too inconvenient for them…i don’t care if they hear it because obviously they don’t actually like it.

   The free way doesn’t seem to benefit me in any way except for back in the day when i’d leave free cd’s laying about a cd shop on occassions. Download cards never seem to invite people to download the music, probably because there are too many steps between that card and the music

   I mean eventually it’s going to wind up on some dl site from the east anyways so may as well let them do the work and let me try to convince you to send a dime my way.

   Having it on Spotify or Last.fm and at least making the 1cent every 10000 listens is better for me and for them (listeners) as they probably already use the free service and I may be able to buy a cup of coffee in 4 years. Most people I know under the age of 30, if they wanna check out this band they heard about typically go to youtube to find it anyways and not to the band sites.
   • Brian John Mitchell says:

     June 23, 2012 at 9:09 pm

     Things are so screwed up right now for anyone expecting to break even on an album. I don’t know what to think about it, much less do about it.

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