Yesterday’s Bandcampus was a loud celebration of touring and music careers between over 15 bands and a mix of Houston music writers. As this was the first Bandcampus of the year people were understandably excited to share their progress with each other and it didn’t hurt that Marc Brubaker brought a keg of St. Arnold’s.
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Bandcampus: 1/31/10 BOOKING PARTY Recap
February 1, 2010 – 6:21 pm
Twitter as a Cultural Artifact
January 29, 2010 – 10:11 am
This semester in COMP 300: Society in the Information Age we’ve been discussing our changing world and the shifting perceptions brought to us with the addition of technology. In a previous session we examined the Information Age through the lens of Marshall McLuhan’s teachings. McLuhan was a leader in the field of media theory and [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide - Day 5, Victoria/Corpus Christi Area
January 27, 2010 – 6:00 am
Welcome to the final day of pre-release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. The compiled ebook will be available for free download on Monday, February 1st, 2010. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers areas near Victoria and [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide - Day 4, San Antonio
January 26, 2010 – 6:00 am
Welcome to Day 4 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers San Antonio, known by the public for their Riverwalk and by bands as having a large number of [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide - Day 3, Houston
January 25, 2010 – 12:08 am
Welcome to Day 3 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers Houston, the fourth largest city in the nation but a city not known for it’s music community.
Booking Your [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide - Day 2, Dallas
January 19, 2010 – 6:28 pm
Welcome to Day 2 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers Dallas, the cosmopolitan center of Texas and also, a hotbed for rodeo.
Booking Your Band in Texas - pt. [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide - Day 1, Austin
January 18, 2010 – 6:00 am
Welcome to Day 1 of the release of the ebook ‘Booking Your Band in Texas’. This guide is designed to help you contact and book yourself a live show at venues around Texas. Today’s venue list covers Austin, “The Music Capital of the World.”
Booking Your Band in Texas - pt. 1, Austin
This download includes a [...]
Booking Your Band in Texas Guide - 5 Days of Career Building Information for Bands
January 17, 2010 – 10:56 pm
Any band looking to step up their game in 2010 can initiate their excitement engines. Over the next 5 days I’ll be releasing a list of venues within a four hour drive of Houston that you can contact to book your band a gig. This list is a lead up to Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY which will be [...]
Book a Show for Your Band at Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY
January 15, 2010 – 12:43 pm
One of the best things you can do for yourself as a band is to start touring as early as possible. As Mike King puts it on Artist House Music’s blog, “Tour Early and Tour Often.” He also mentions that in order to do this effectively, “be sure that your live show is awesome.” And [...]
Innovation Driving Ideas for 2010
January 14, 2010 – 10:46 pm
The end of 2009 saw reflective lists from everyone who could get up the energy to dredge their memories and diaries. I’d like to offer a different list, a wishlist for 2010, or a to-do list for the decade if you can’t get to it this year. I contributed to a similar list focused solely [...]