Blog Promotion - Elbows Music Blog Community

Festive 50 2007 voting now open

sasradio — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:55:41 -0400

With the blessing of John Peel's former producer Louise, the Festive 50 poll of this year's music is once again hosted by internet radio station Dandelion Radio. Voting is now open and will remain so until the end of November. Vote for your favourite three tracks of 2007 (these can include tracks from December 2006) - album, single or unreleased. The final chart rundown will be streamed on Dandelion Radio from the beginning of December.

To vote now, go to the online form

Feel free to blog this but please don't encourage voting campaigns - we're looking for a fair chart. Thanks

Blog aggregation/distribution

idiomag — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:12:36 -0400

check out http://www.idiomag.com - basically it aggregates content (reviews/features/videos/etc) from mainstream publications, top blogs, and individual journalists, and turns it all into a rich-media magazine - which is then personalised for every reader based on their interests. blogs that contribute will get promotion and ad-revenue-sharing.

what do you think?

Want to do better on Alexa?

brandon — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:17:09 -0400

I've been using the SearchStatus Toolbar in FireFox for a while.. it displays the PR and Alexa Rank for the current page you're on, but it also sends info to Alexa. If you visit a lot of music blogs (or only your own), installing it may cause a bump in your Alexa rank. If a lot of music bloggers do it, perhaps we can all help each other out.

http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

Just a thought-

Brandon

Wolf Parade photos

speedofdark_Linda — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:03:27 -0400

Please check out my Wolf Parade photos from last Saturday's concert. I have made a special photo page for them. (Please be kind about my web design--I am a baby-beginner.)

speedofdark-web.com/speedofdark-web_files/Wolf_Parade_9-2007.htm

Dirty Projectors?

24hourpartypooper — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:42:59 -0400

Anyone else not sold at all on the new Dirty Projectors album?

Here's my take: http://24hourpartypooper.blogspot.com/2007/09/so-goes-nation.html

My blog is dangerous!

EF Matt — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:19:10 -0400

Wow. I'm going to have to have a look around my site to find this "Pornographic material" they speak of, but I'm kinda proud to have a DANGEROUS website...

"Ear Farm

Added: 08/09/2007 - 21:26:08

This website has been investigated by Net Authority, and has been found to be in violation of the Internet Acceptable Use Policy by posting the following kinds of content:

Pornographic material

Be cautioned! This website contains strongly offensive material and is not suitable for young children."

Hacked MP3 Blogs...

dilvie — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:01:16 -0400

Has anybody ever hacked your blog for the purpose of forcing their music on your audience?

After six months of near total silence, Knobtweakers.net was hacked! It's clear that the hackers intend to hijack the large Knobtweakers audience. They have left most of the Knobtweakers site intact, so obviously, defacement is not a top priority. I regained control for a short while, and they got it back again (presumably with a back-door). It's clear that some people think it's all fun and games, and as you'll see below, some have even suggested that this is a GOOD THING. Traitors!

The first trace of the hacker's IP address was a google referral with the keywords "mp3 blog".

Sambena said...: Way cool.. Go uber hackers!! you know.. if you would just update your site. than people wouldn't have to hack it...

Long live this hack.; 4:51 PM
Sambena said...: Puny humans. Your security is pathetic.

We have hijacked your highest ranking MP3

blog with ease. Let these transmissions

serve as a warning. We are coming for you

next. You will serve us.

-The hackers; 4:53 PM
Eric said...: Whatever. They're jerks. I like the song. They could have just emailed it to me if they wanted me to post it. =P~; 2:16 AM
Klingon on the Starboard Bow said...: Hey! you got hax0rd, and it wasn't even the RIAA! I'm Scott Edwards, owner operator of Daxal Communications - http://www.daxal.com/hosting Bribe me and I might upload another track hehehe :); 2:47 AM
Eric said...: Scott, I think they installed a backdoor. Thanks for helping me get my account back. I restored from backups and installed all the security updates and patched all the security holes I could possibly think of, and they had my account again within the hour. One time was kinda funny, but this is worrisome.

They're posting ROBOT PORN. Okay, it's a Bjork song, but still! Total disrespect.

John Vanderslice :: Live - LA River Basin (Thursday) FREE

aquarium drunkard — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:21:01 -0400

Calling all John Vanderslice fans. JV and an Aquarium Drunkard would like to cordially invite you out to the LA river basin for a guerrilla-styled free concert. Think: that old U2 video, filmed on the rooftop in downtown LA, where the cops bust it up — only smaller, and cooler.

Here is scoop: We will all meet up Thursday evening at 7pm in front of the Los Feliz Cafe (3270 Los Feliz Blvd.) There is a gate a few yards away from the cafe that allows public access to the river basin. We walk down - JV plays. It’s fun, intimate and outside.

Calling all fans of The Jam

Kip Sellout — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:55:15 -0400

Rock Sellout had the opportunity to interview the legendary band's bass player, Bruce Foxton, today. He spoke with us about the band's sold out UK tour, the possibilities of recording new material, and crossing the pond to play a few dates in the States.

Click here to check it out.

Wiggum It...Just A Little Bit -- Simpsons Contest

loudersoft — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:32:47 -0400

Hey everyone, I'm doing a give-away for the Simpsons movie -- yes, I'm doing the pink doughnut giveaway. I decided to do a contest where people submit short video clips of themselves doing their favorite Ralph Wiggum quote.

If you'd spread the word, the contest runs until July 20th, and I can't wait to get a dozen video submissions from people saying "Tastes like grandma" or "Principal Skinner, I got car sick in your office."

H ere's the link to the contest & thanks everyone!

p.s. you're all eligible

short term MP3 loss

cousincreep — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:07:01 -0400

Just to let you know my blog from last year has now been exhumed and put back into action – short term MP3 loss. This time it’s using the theme of a song a day before it gets taken down after then. The focus will be placed on obscure or deleted items from a variety of genres…

Enjoy.

short term MP3 loss

New Pinback tracks

chickensdontclap — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:02:10 -0400

Hey all -- my first post here, I've got a fairly new blog called Chickens Don't Clap! I just posted a couple songs from the new Pinback album, Autumn of the Seraphs, thought some of you might be interested in checking 'em out. Just follow the link. Thanks! :-)

Hello from the Commonwealth

o'flannabhra — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:31:35 -0400

I'm not really one for self-promotion and what-not, but I figured I might as well take the plunge.

I started a blog earlier this year, primarily as a way to share tracklists of CDs I had burned for some of my friends, and to comment on your blogs. Now, I've got the fever, and even though I'm going to keep the blog primarily for my friends, I figure it should still be more polished. Right now it looks like a dog laid a giant turd and then rummaged its nose around in it. What resources did you all use when building your blog (specifically layouts)? Do you all work on your posts from within the blogger/wordpress editor or do you paste it in from outside programs?

Secondly, I am currently working on a post detailing the blogs and music from here in Kentucky. Should I worry about using images from other sites in my posts (not hotlinking, using things like a blogs banner/artist photos when I talk about them)? Should I ask permission first, or are people cool with stuff like that?

Right, so the blog is called A Glass, Darkly. http://oflannabhra.blogspot.com

CSS Interview!

chris | indietastic — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:34:06 -0400

After 4 months of trying, we finally got our interview with CSS!

http://www.indietastic.net/cms/2007/04/css_interview.html

2007 Concert Photo Contest now open!

kingsnake — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:59:50 -0500

In conjunction with the coming of spring break and the arrival of Austin's SXSW festival it gives me great pleasure to announce that club kingsnakes 2007 concert photo contest is now accepting entries to it's online gallery. Last years prize winner, Gary Miller, had his picture selected from over 500 images submitted from around the world, by our tie-breaking judge Alice Cooper, and Gary won a $1200 shopping spree at Austin's Precision Camera. This years contest will have monthly prizes as well as the grand prize $2000 camera shopping spree awarded at the close of the year. Think you and your SLR or PnS have the chops to compete? Give it a try!

For complete rules and entry information see our site at http://club.kingsnake.com or stop by our booth at Austin's 2007 SXSW Interactive and Music Trade Shows!

Southern Shelter

lucasjensenusa — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:59:59 -0400

This is really apropos of nothing, but I just wanted to give a shout to my pal, Sloan Simpson, and his amazing blog, Southern Shelter: http://www.southernshelter.com.

Sloan has been tirelessly chronicling the Athens, GA (and ATL) music scene without real compensation for a few years now and his recordings and attitude are just top-notch. He records these shows and then posts MP3s and FLAC files of them just because he wants people to hear what we've got going on down here. If you want to hear new tracks from an Athens band like Dark Meat (half of their most recent set was new!), there's a good chance Sloan has already got live versions of them. He's a real champ.

Check out this awesome set he caught from Elf Power at our Prom last year: http://southernshelter.com/2006/08/elf-power-40-watt-8506.html

They did "Ghostbusters" and "Cinnamon Girl" in the same set. That's pretty rad.

Anyway, I'd love to see more people link to him and use stuff from his site (with permission, of course!). It's wonderful to have him as a resource.

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pornophony — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:19:24 -0400

CLOSED.

Want to talk smack about my new blog?

midnightatthelab — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:05:11 -0400

Hey, I've been working on a music blog with a few of my friends, and was hoping for some general advice from those of you who have been around for awhile, on:

1) just in general, what do you think of it, any advice, criticism, etc?

2) any advice on how to go about promoting the thing and getting readers and such.

Any advice would be much appreciated. My blog is called Midnight at the Lab, and the link is:

http://midnightatthelab.wordpress.com/

Thanks!

Rob

Video: John Vanderslice & St. Vincent Together, Unplugged

inhouseradio — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:04:47 -0400

A live rendition of JV's "Nikki Oh Nikki" from Monday night's performance in Salt Lake City,

see it here: inhouseradio.blogspot.com/2007/04/video-john-vanderslice-st.html

Show Review: Maria Taylor and Basia Bulat

ibrokemyipod — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:27:01 -0400

It was an interesting show. Read my thoughts on it here.

Puddlegum Forum + Menomena giveaway

puddlegum — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:21:08 -0500

Puddlegum has a new forum (just opened it this morning):

forum.puddlegum.net

We're using Vanilla, so things may look a little familiar.

To help kick it off, we teamed up with Barsuk Records and have a Menomena CD giveaway, along with Blankets by Craig Thompson. At the end of the month we'll randomly select three people that signed up in the forum.

Let me know what you think. I'm curious.

Flick

Interview with Larry Crane re: Elliott Smith's New Moon

Jake — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:36:32 -0500

Interview with Larry Crane re: Elliott Smith's New Moon

My Interview with Chris Walla

meandthesea — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:18:58 -0500

Hey all,

I just posted an interview I idd last wekk with Chris Walla (Death cab) we talk about His new record, the next death cab record, Barack Obama, and clubbing baby seals.

Enjoy!

http://hardtofindafriend.blogspot.com/2007/02/conversation-with-chris-walla.html

Cheers,

Caleb

http://hardtofindafriend.blogspot.com

Valentine's Day Posts

Taylor T-Sides — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:46:16 -0500

alright, you know you posted something for Valentine's Day like the sappy fuck that you are. I say everyone posts links to their valentines' entries here so that we don't have to run all around the internets to read them. who's with me?

http://www.t-sides.com/?p=118

Looking for a few good music bloggers...

kingsnake — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:57:11 -0500

We are looking for a few good bloggers, podcasters, and videographers that like to blog about live music that are interested in joining our communal blog as staff or contributers. We don't make any money with the site, thats not really the point, so we can't pay you, but we can promise you that people will read your stuff. We can also help you out with ticket expenses, press credentials, and equipment like cameras as well as CDs and DVDs to review. Some of our bloggers are going to SXSW2007 all expenses paid this year. Others have gotten camera equipment, free CD's, and have gotten to meet some neat people like Kerry King of Slayer, Alice Cooper, Rik Emmett of Triumph, and lots and lots of other artists.

We are interested in all musical genres(except polka) and we are looking for people all over the world. This isn't a quit your dayjob or your dayblog thing but its a good way to build your portfolio. Look I am frankly too old to camp out for Bonaroo and ACL Fest is too damned dusty. I would rather send somebody still young enough to think such punishment is fun.

Our music blog is relatively new, but our company has been online for 10 years, we have a 15 server farm and last year delivered over 250,000,000 page views on our most popular site. Yes that is a quarter billion, no we are not kidding.

Our music blog is an offshoot of our popular pet community site kingsnake.com so we have access to huge amounts of traffic for promotion.

Here are our Alexa rankings for our most popular site, kingsnake.com compared with a select few others

Traffic Rank for craigslist.org: 35

Traffic Rank for rollingstone.com: 3,695

Traffic Rank for statesman.com: 9,662

Traffic Rank for kingsnake.com: 17,314

Traffic Rank for blender.com: 21,444

Traffic Rank for sxsw.com: 29,097

Traffic Rank for austinchronicle.com: 34,011

Traffic Rank for spin.com: 50,182

We plan on our music site being around a long time and having a lot of fun with it. If you would like to help out and have some fun too let me know. Either send me an email or stop by our booth at this years SXSW trade show and pick up a free t-shirt

Jeff Barringer

Senior Editor/Staff Photographer

club.kingsnake

to myspace or not to myspace

Taylor T-Sides — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:06:09 -0500

for those of you with myspace profiles specifically for your blog, do you find that having a myspace profile for your blog does much in the way of promotion and communication? I haven't started one because my blog is rather small and I figured a myspace profile for it would just be composed of my friends and bands that I promote on it, and I wasn't sure if it would be worth the maintenance. so, I'm just curious as to whether or not any of you think it has actually made an effect in/on your readership...

aquarium drunkard has moved

aquarium drunkard — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:04:15 -0500

hi, aquarium drunkard has a new wordpress powered home at www.aquariumdrunkard.com

to anyone who links me, a link update at yer convenience would be fab

thanks - jgage

best lyrical dis ever

ben:bub — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:19:58 -0500

Just wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on the best lyrical dis ever. I posted the same at busted up bulldozers but I'm pretty new at this and thought I might get more interest here.

Rules:

Looking for the sweetest and not necessarily the hardest.

Songs and/or Lines

hip-hop is its own category because they get so much practice.

I'll compile responses at the blog when responses slow down (if they ever speed up)

for me: "No Children" by the Mountain Goats

Sonic Bids

paul.irish — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:44:13 -0500

Has anyone set themselves up here?

Basically you can get paid for having bands' EPK's delivered to you (that's Electronic Press Kits)...

something like $2 per submission.

Unfortunately they retain the first $25 you make.

Blog Promotion - Elbows Music Blog Community

Festive 50 2007 voting now open

Blog aggregation/distribution

Want to do better on Alexa?

Wolf Parade photos

Dirty Projectors?

My blog is dangerous!

Hacked MP3 Blogs...

John Vanderslice :: Live - LA River Basin (Thursday) FREE

Calling all fans of The Jam

Wiggum It...Just A Little Bit -- Simpsons Contest

short term MP3 loss

New Pinback tracks

Hello from the Commonwealth

CSS Interview!

2007 Concert Photo Contest now open!

Southern Shelter

.

Want to talk smack about my new blog?

Video: John Vanderslice & St. Vincent Together, Unplugged

Blogrolling in our Time

Show Review: Maria Taylor and Basia Bulat

Puddlegum Forum + Menomena giveaway

Interview with Larry Crane re: Elliott Smith's New Moon

My Interview with Chris Walla

Valentine's Day Posts

Looking for a few good music bloggers...

to myspace or not to myspace

aquarium drunkard has moved

best lyrical dis ever

Sonic Bids