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:

• 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’

And you can follow Martin on Twitter!!!

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:

Buy Pigface “6″

As always this Pigface record is chock full of collaborations. There’s a track by track listing of who did what after the jump.

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A couple months back we did our Ultimate Tour:Smart contest that ultimately ruled. It garnered some Ultimately awesome tips from the Ultimate source: YOU the foot soldiers on the ground. Many participated but unfortunately there could only be one winner.

As previously announced Jason Gates of Darkside Entertainment took home the Ultimate Prize Package for his excellent list of 25 tips for the road. If you haven’t read it yet what are you thinking? Click this link immediately and learn the value of baby wipes, flashlights and pocket knives… really… do it.

If you already read Jason’s tasty tips but can’t remember exactly how he became the champion he is today (i.e. won the contest) you can read about it here.

Just as a little reminder here’s all the finger lickin’ tasty prizes that Jason took home:

A PreSonus Firestudio Tube
Awesome Dean Guitar w/ Lighting Bolts
Very Shiny Pearl Sensitone Elite Snare
4 Pairs of Martin Atkins Trueline Drumsticks
Martin Atkins Beat Fetish
A tour:smart consultation
A copy of Tour:Smart

And what’s that you say? Weren’t there other Tour:Smart Giveaways? Why yes there were more prizes that went out during this contest… they just were the Ultimate ones. (But they were still pretty neat) Thanks again to PreSonus, Dean, Pearl and Trueline for making this contest Ultimately possible :

PreSonus FS Tube
PreSonus Firebox
Dean Guitar
Pearl SensiTone Elite Snare
4 Pairs of Martin Atkins Trueline drumsticks
Tour:Smart Consultation
A signed Copy of Tour:Smart

Hopefully by now you’ve read the book but if not GET IT HERE.

Here on the blog we’ll be posting some of Martin’s tips, guest post from various big names in the industry, doing Interviews and having discussions of what’s happening in the touring world among other things.

This is going ot get interesting, so make sure to check back regularly, until next time: