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Web 2.0 is considered as the second coming of the Internet. It is increasing companies, consumer trust and return on business investments by creating intimacy. Internet companies now reach out to consumers in unusual ways. Consumers want information like who you are and what you are all about before buying what you sell. Quality is no longer enough to get consumers to spend their well earned dollars.

Here are five ways to help you as an independent artist to promote your music on the World Wide Web:

1. Setup a newsletter via e-mail
2. Maximize the use of social networks
3. Upload your own music video
4. Get a free blog account
5. Use podcasts

These promotional tips are your ticket to creating your band’s first functional Web 2.0 promotional campaign.

Source: musicindustry.suite101.com

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Lovely Victoria, British Columbia, a charming city on the water visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists each year — perhaps not the place you’d expect to find one of the weirder and smarter punk bands around today. Or perhaps exactly the sort of place you’d expect to find such a band. In any case, it’s the place No Means No calls home. Possibly Canada’s preeminent power trio, No Means No have been abrading delicate ears with their complex rhythm-heavy funk-punk and promulgating leftist social commentary across North America since 1981. That was the year a couple of nice Canadian boys, brothers John and Rob Wright, formally began their strange sonic experiments that fused punk with blues, jazz, funk, metal, and pure noise.

Rhythms and declamatory lyrics dominated their sound, a situation that remains true today after two decades of developing their sound. The Wright brothers added a guitarist — first Andrew Kerr and later Tom Holliston — but the slashing, sometimes bluesy guitar parts have always seemed to work at the service of the band’s complicated rhythms, not the other way around. Rob’s deep chugging bass is usually the biggest sound in the mix and John’s jarring, polyrhythmic drumming is a lot more sophisticated than most of the percussion you hear in rock music. The brothers share vocals, which range from forceful spoken word speak-sing to Jello Biafra-style demented rants, only occasionally approaching anything like melody. Tricky, confrontational music, but if you appreciate it, consistently rewarding.

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