Re: Radio/media for tour/record promotion?

[RoCogs]

In a message dated 99-03-10 10:12:41 EST, you write:

 My band is setting up a very short tour up the Mississippi corridor
 from Austin to launch the record that we'll be finishing any day now.
 We'd like to have (gasp!) people at the shows, even though we don't
 get out of Austin too much, so we're trying to find media outlets that
 we can barrage with hookers and blow.  I'm thinking radio appearances,
 reviews of the record, in-stores, mentions in "recommended" lists,
 etc. 


I'd start out getting my hands on a copy of Musician Magazine's Guide To
Touring And Promotion. It's not everything but I have found it to be extremely
helpful.

Stacey's Hellcountry website also has some good leads, a lot of it is New
England based, but not all of it, and it can give you ideas.

Good luck!

Elena Skye

Radio/media for tour/record promotion?

[Bill Gribble]

My band is setting up a very short tour up the Mississippi corridor
from Austin to launch the record that we'll be finishing any day now.
We'd like to have (gasp!) people at the shows, even though we don't
get out of Austin too much, so we're trying to find media outlets that
we can barrage with hookers and blow.  I'm thinking radio appearances,
reviews of the record, in-stores, mentions in "recommended" lists,
etc.

The band is the Barkers; we played at Twangfest II and have a song on
the Edges/P2 comp CD.  We're more pop than alt-country but there's a
significant amount of country in there.

It looks like we are going to go to the following cities, in more or 
less this order: 

  Memphis,
  St. Louis, 
  Chicago,
  Columbia MO, 
  Kansas City, 
  Lawrence/Topeka/Manhattan?  somewhere in Kansas. 

I'm trying to find out what the weekly entertainment rags and left-end
FM stations might be pliable; what record stores might be willing to
do in-stores for a band with self-released product; what DJs might set
up studio appearances in a likely time slot.

Any info for me? 

Thanks,
Bill Gribble
The Barkers