r3 Scholarship for session #1 Tour:Smart is giving away a work/study scholarship for the first session of Martin’s Atkins’ new school revolution number three! Know a smart, deserving, self starter? email info@revolutionnumberthree.com. Tell us who and why they should get the scholarship. Session #1 starts Monday! Session one starts June 29 at 6pm in Chicago at r3: 3319 S. Lituanica Ave. Chicago IL Session two starts July 27 in Chicago r3 students will be working with these companies: DrumCore, MVD Entertainment, PreSonus Audio, Invisible Records, Mattress Factory Music, Misery Loves Co., Toy Block Music, Bloodshot Records, Trick Drums, and Reggie’s Rock Club. r3 is also doing weekend immersion sessions: The first is August 21 - 23. More info here. Details:
Our first set of sessions are just five weeks each with some collapsed/concentrated one week sessions to followas we get to grips with how this is going to work to everyone’s benefit - here’s some of what we’re going to be doing:
running the invisible records label - with a 20th anniv release to imagine and develop
messing around in the studio and creating some drum loops for Drum Core
working with Trick Drums on something (we don’t know what yet) but they just designed the most amazing new pedal for Pearl Drums
setting up a gallery show in Baltimore
interfacing with Presonus Audio, MVD distribution and more
working on a new release from Snapline one of our Chinese bands of whom people have said “sell your Radiohead - Buy Snapline”
Promotions for the Tour:Smart book and lecture tour
working on the sequel Band;Smart - and hey - i need to get your input on this please!
Running the music licensing/publishing company, developing new CRM models for this. Screen-printing Mail order WEB
video editing, the creation of webisodes
lectures will be as needed on Marketing, Touring, Artist Development, Entrepreneurial activities, additional skills, x-Box hacking, sound, new media, word of mouth marketing, zero dollar marketing and generally ‘being better at everything’
Martin is a regular contributer to knowthemusicbiz.com, a web site that’s name pretty much explains it all. His recent blog post is all about “Triumph in the Face of Adversity,” a.k.a. taking personal responsibility for your situation as a musician.
There’s no need to recap the helpful tidbits of advice and inspiration on this page when all you have to do is gohere to read the full blog post.
Better than the Van is an awesome website devoted to helping bands find free places to stay while on tour. The idea is simple. You create a profile saying where you are, who you are and whether you have a place to offer or need a place to crash. The profiles are really easy to create (and I mean really easy) and it’s a great way to make connections with people in the cities you’re visiting. But don’t take our word for it, Co-Founder Todd Hansen was kind enough to answer a couple questions for us that show how BTTV philosophies are in line with the Tour:Smart way of life. If you want to support BTTV they’re having a pledge drive to fund a website update that will add new features and make the page generally more helpful to bands. You can donate here.
Do You? Do you also like Tour:Smart? Well then this will really rev your engines.
Martin Atkins’ industrial supergroup Pigface just dropped their sixth studio album “6″ on Full Effect Records on June 9th. In case like Martin says, you should really consider the source of the information you’re getting. Here’s a guy that can teach you all about touring and is still making music himself (even if this record did take a few years). You can buy the 11 tracks of sonic bliss now here:
r3 Scholarship for session #1 Tour:Smart is giving away a work/study scholarship for the first session of Martin’s Atkins’ new school revolution number three! Know a smart, deserving, self starter? email info@revolutionnumberthree.com. Tell us who and why they should get the scholarship. Session #1 starts Monday! Session one starts June 29 at 6pm in Chicago at r3: 3319 S. Lituanica Ave. Chicago IL Session two starts July 27 in Chicago r3 students will be working with these companies: DrumCore, MVD Entertainment, PreSonus Audio, Invisible Records, Mattress Factory Music, Misery Loves Co., Toy Block Music, Bloodshot Records, Trick Drums, and Reggie’s Rock Club. r3 is also doing weekend immersion sessions: The first is August 21 - 23. More info here. Details:
Better than the Van
Do You? Do you also like Tour:Smart? Well then this will really rev your engines.