5 posts tagged “unsigned”
In response to suggestions from the community (namely Kang and others), a couple of new elements have been added.
There is now a Calendar which anyone can add their gig dates to. No registration/log in is required. Simply add your details and everyone will be able to see when and where you are playing. So please take a look, see what you think.
Also, there were suggestions of a 'listened to' flag to show when Columbia/RCA/A&R have listened to a track. It's near impossible to give detailed comments on every track. But a simple when it was listened to and by who message seems like a good idea. So as of today I'm trying out something new that will generate a time stamp and signature as something is listened to by one of us. It's simply text at the moment but I will see if I can get some kind of embed graphic.
More details to follow.
Hello,
So what is going on in the RCA community, got lots of PM's which is great. Still going through them (managed about 200 at the weekend). Don't panic when it comes to whether your music is being listened to or not. If it's within the community it's available to everyone, and there's a lot of us now.
Now were working on the media player too, it will be even easier for people to experience your music. This is something I am looking into further and wish to develop. As things happen I'll let you know via here.
I spend a lot of time listening to the tracks from the communities and there are a lot of great tracks in here. I really appriciate the recommendations from other artists, that shows a passion for what we're trying to acheive. So thanks to those who have.
I wanted to share with you some of the things I've been listening to of late, to see what you think.
Jon Trowbridge's Words Don't Fail Me Now has a really strong chrous and great vocal melody. Have a listen, see what you think. I really like this one.
Mashinmusic's Slingshot feat. Jah 7 - Check out this guy's profile, quite a story and his stuff is worth a listen to. Have a look through his blog and say hello. Leave some comments on here aswell if you really want to tell us what you think.
Piper Saint should satisfy those of you who like their grungy punk to have a nice polish production-wise, have a listen to Please Dont. Female fronted with a couple of stomping tracks in there. Stong, uninhibted vocal with a really tight band.
We've got the media player I was talking about.
The design is very simple and I hope to get it improved over time but I couldn't wait to get something like this on here.
This will really help spread the music on here to a wider community and help you experience other people's music easily. This has aleady become my channel of choice as a minimised page whilst I'm working. If you hear something you like you can click the forwarding link on the track and get to the artist's blog via the A&R group.
HAVE A PLAY! Listen to what's on there. There is a randomised 100 track playlist on there which I will get updated from time to time.
More to come.
We're passed the 1000 mark anyway!!!
I've been looking through the community and it still impresses the hell out of me how you've developed this. There are some great subcommunities and groups forming which will be featured in the coming weeks.
I'm going to be running around the building today telling everyone about it (people think I'm strange anyway). Ged (the Chairman) is away at the mo but I know he's checking his blog, so I will be sure to email him the good news.
Craig and Mike will also be happy to know that the online community is steadily increasing day by day. Now we're getting to a reasonable size I can stop writing as much about the development of all this and start writing more about the important stuff, the music! :-)
As mentioned there's going to be features on the groups I find in the neighbourhood, to help me out please let me know of any one's you find, or are a member of that you think are worth a mention.
In the meantime just keep doing what you're all doing, uploading great music, helping each other out, leaving comments, posting messages and connecting with us. :-)
Hope all is good with you and be sure to keep spreading the news about our nighbourhood.
Welcome to the first RCA public blog!
This is the central blog of RCA's unsigned community. If you search around you'll also find RCA's label staff here, including the A&R department each having their own page and community.
Have a look around and see who's here. As this is where the bands connect to first over time you will see more and more acts appearing. Check our their music and other content, leave comments and tell us more about them.
You'll also see a posts from us. These can range from valuable information on new projects to random pictures and strange comments.
The reason we're doing this is we don't want your CD's! CD's really aren't the best way for the unsigned community to communicate with us. Set up a blog and we're always there and can see what you're doing musically at anytime. We can see how you develop and get a feel for what's happening with your music.
Who am I talking about when I refer to 'us'. Well I mean pretty much everyone here at the label and that includes our A&R function:
Craig - Head of RCA
Goodguy - A&R
Samrca - A&R
Stormyduke - A&R
You can also connect to each other which is important. Your here because you're into music so go and have a listen to what's going on around you. Leave comments, introduce fans to each other.
Leave comments here and on our blogs too. Let us know what you think of how this is going, the music that's about and most importantly introduce us to your music.
J
