Mission Creek & Blammos Present Indie Music Video Festival
July 8th, 2008 by LuxHey, I just read about this from The Bay Bridged and thought I would repost it here to let all the cool bands on this label in on the fun! You know that the Passionistas will be submitting something fun and exciting (and maybe a little controversial) Even thought we are not playing Mission Creek this year…
here is the post taken from The Bay Bridged
“The annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival is coming up fast, and you’ll be able to read more about it here on The Bay Bridged as it approaches. But for now, we wanted to remind any bands that haven’t entered their music video into the Bay Area Indie Music Video Festival to do it now.
For the second year, local indie pop band Blammos has organized this great event that allows local bands to submit their videos for the chance to be featured at the Festival, which this year takes place at a href=”www.atasite.org”>Artist’s Television Access (ATA).
Bands must submit their videos by next Wed., July 16 to be considered. The video must be independently produced and under 5 minutes, and all you have to do is send the web link to blammostheband@yahoo.com. All genres are encouraged. If you’re not a filmmaker, but want to check out the show, head over to ATA next Saturday, July 19. 8pm, $7.”
Alright! get started on those videos!
Questions I need answers to.
September 6th, 2007 by myles
No matter where I am in life, questions about what to do next always surface. As a musician, I spent the first part of my life asking myself everything from “how do I tune my guitar” to “if I tried singing, would everyone laugh at me?”
Although those days are over, I still feel as clueless as when I started. Although the “how do I” questions are less personal, they threaten my ’success’ more than ever. I had an idea yesterday to write all these questions down… and after doing so I decided to post them here on WFISF… as a sort of Internet experiment. Perhaps some questions will be answered! I’m sure some of my fellow music makers will appreciate this discussion… if they’re okay with “selling out” of course.
1 How does a local artist open for a major act at a Clear Channel venue - say the Warfield, Fillmore or Bimbo’s?
2 How do you get asked to support a touring act without knowing the band or label directly?
3 How do you tour at the “inde” level without loosing money?
4 How do you attract, trap and keep a good booking agent?
5 How do you get written about by Pitchfork Media?
6 How do you get your music on a “modern rock” station, like Live 105?
7 Who are these music festival promoters and how do I meet them?
8 Why isn’t the punk circuit supportive and why is it impossible to break into? I mean, come on!
9 How do you get club night promoters to return emails?
10 How do you get support from ‘arts organizations’ in San Francisco? Why don’t they return emails or phone calls? And why do they pretend like you’re not talking to them when you approach them at one of their two buck chuck events?