Comments on: Finding regional blogs

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:27:48 +0000

All great suggestions – thanks, Steph. We’ve got a list of bands with MySpace pages, and we’re just putting together a way of reaching out to them without seeming spammy.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:27:56 +0000

I know that umusic.ca (Universal Music Canada) has a blog attached to their website. Maybe other major Canadian labels have blogs on their sites as well. My other guess would be to see if indie labels have a blogs attached to their sites. A couple well known Canadian indie labels are Paper Bag, Dine Alone, Underground Operations. You will definitely get a regional feel from those. Also you might find some undiscovered bands plugging their shows on those blogs. As for actual college band blogs, I don’t know how many of them really do the blog thing. I know that most of my friends searching for new bands use Myspace. Those are my ideas; hopefully it’s of some help.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:09:53 +0000

That’s an interesting one… I’ve never seen that one. Thanks for the tip, David!

By: David Jones

David Jones — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:56:31 +0000

Check out talk digger. They make some attempt at identifying the country of origin, but there are some other neat features too.

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By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:59:59 +0000

As someone who was once in a university-based band, I’d advise being somewhat wary of relying only on campus stations (I realize you’re not relying only on them, but you catch my drift).

Some stations pride themselves on being community-based or grounded in some other niche. As such, it can be hard to penetrate them as an emerging band. Considering they’re supposed to be a hotbed of indie culture, a lot of campus stations are surprisingly elitist when it comes to their own counter-culture cred.

I think the social media approach is pretty good, actually. Find one band’s MySpace and see which other bands they list among their friends.

As for new ideas, have you tried looking at music community sites? I’m a few years removed from such things so who knows what’s around know but there sure used to be some music-specific social media type networks.

Lastly – and this is one of those time-consuming tasks best left to the high school intern – check out listings pages and arts sections from campus newspapers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:12:03 +0000

Hey Duane – we’re getting in touch with the college radio stations, advertising on Facebook by network and reaching out to some individual bands as well.

The campus radio station list I have is decent, but I’d love to have something to compare it against. If you’d like, I can send you the updated version when I’m done.

Blogs are really the only missing part of the research puzzle at this point. Thanks for the help!

By: Duane Brown

Duane Brown — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:02:56 +0000

Ryan, If you wanted to find bands who are still in school. It would almost seem faster to just call up/email the local student union and ask them. Most would know of local bands on campus, as would the local school radio station. The radio station might even put a call out to bands, if you wanted them to help you with a press piece. I’ve a list of radio stations at college/universities, if you are interested in it.

Otherwise I think using Facebook and doing an advanced search might help. Most would put they are in a band in their interest section along with the network being the school they attend. This would help you find bands I think.

A Canadian site I like is http://www.projectopus.com