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Does anyone have any good pointers about how to point people towards your music? Small-scale, cheap/free things preferred at present - just wondering what's worked for other people. :)

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Just having a card/demo/something ready for those times when you're getting on with someone and they happen to be into music too. Personality will go a long way, but just slipping someone your card after five minutes of chat trying to get noticed by someone will be BAD. :(

Goo luck, man. Try other forums, local bars, studios and whoring yourself to tramps. Sometimes, it work out (apart from the tramps, maybe that's me?)
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http://www.15megsoffame.com

from the people who brought us the (mainly) excellent http://www.threadless.com t-shirt website.

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This has now launched.

I am here: http://www.15megsoffame.com/artist/?artistid=213

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Really?

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I've been featured as Editors' pick on their main page this summer (there were three picks over a total of more than 80.000 artists) without paying a cent. Simply, they've listened to a song and found it good enough.

They seem very fair.

If you're doing it for promotion, a site that has both estabilished and unknow artists with the same privileges is good.

I've also tried to register to http://www.15megsoffame.com. I haven't received any email to confirm my subscription, and I can't login beacuse my account is not confirmed.
So I can't say much about it.

But, at the moment, I'm really happy with music.download.com.

I've also been on the old mp3.com for more than a year. Gave up when they started asking money for services they were giving for free when I started.

As a musician with an hacker culture, I don't like the concept "the more you pay, the more you're visible".

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