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Growing Your Fan Base

Business development (targeted outreach)
by Hank Stroll

  • Associations – Associations are probably the best place to go to find the largest number of email addresses. Establishing a relationship with the association, and allowing their message to become a part of
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Six Degrees of Ronnie Montrose

Truly loved and forever remembered
by Gene Baker, Mean Gene Band

Since we last left, the Mean Gene Band was headed off to San Francisco to take part in a memorial tribute to legendary guitarist Ronnie Montrose. It was a …

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SHINEDOWN

Amaryllis [Atlantic Records]

FM radio rockers Shinedown return with their fourth studio album in almost a decade of existence, Amaryllis. While little has changed about the band’s user-friendly, hard rock sound since that 2003 debut, their newest effort shows exactly …

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BORKNAGAR

Urd [Century Media]

Borknagar is arguably one of the most interesting bands from the famed Scandinavian black/folk metal scenes. Formed as an alternative to the brutality of the mid-90’s Euro-death scene, the Norwegian act has always taken melody over malevolence …

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DIRGE WITHIN

There Will Be Blood [Rocket Science]

Chicago’s Dirge Within blast back onto the scene with a fairly solid follow up to their 2009 debut Force Fed Lies, entitled There Will Be Blood. This unabashedly metalcore (circa 2004) release shoots straight …

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Spotlight

HATESHOP

Rising up from the ashes of the central coast in California, Hateshop was created in 2008, by guitarists Bill Doty, Mark Schiesl, drummer, Brian McLaughlin and bassist, Steve Gourley. Their history as long time friends shows on stage by the …

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