Client: GroundSwell Music
Website: groundswellmusic.ca
Services: Digital Marketing, Copywriting, Social Media, Content Management, Consulting

The site was designed with music industry best practices in mind and integrated with the Topspin direct-to-fan music marketing platform that helps the band’s management better acquire, engage and convert the fanbase. The band is able to sell digital and physical music, merch and tickets through Topspin and take advantage of many more powerful features for analyzing their growth and facilitating campaigns through social media and blogs. The site is also integrated with the Marcato platform allowing show dates to be published and updated on the site automatically, eliminating double entry.

Client: The Stanfields / GroundSwell Music
Website: thestanfields.ca
Services: WordPress Web Development (Layout Planning & Custom Design Integration), Topspin Integration, Marcato Integration, Copywriting

Blaming Myself, the first single from her debut album, climbed to #3 this week on the East Coast Countdown. The title track In My Bones won the 2009 Great American Song Contest in the folk category while Sunny Days took a gold medal in the 2009 ISSA Songwriting Contest folk category.

See what else Carmel is up to and stream all the tracks from In My Bones on her new website.

Kim’s JunoFEST 2010 performance goes Friday, April 16th at 9pm on the stage of O’Reilly’s (13 George St.). That stage features some of Canada’s most exciting established and up-and-coming female recording artists… Terri Clark, Karla Pilgrim and The Keats.

If you don’t already have JunoFest access, don’t fret! Wristbands are $30 (including tax) and give you priority access to ALL JunoFest events. That’s more than 100 shows in 16 venues over two crazy days! (Venues are subject to capacity.)

Wristbands are available at the Mile One Centre box office, by phone at (709) 576-7657 and online here.

Check out the Facebook Event or stream Kim’s ECMA winning record here for free. You could even pre-order Kim’s new album called Painting With Tides recorded with the help of some of the East Coast’s best like Joel Plaskett, Old Man Luedecke and Thom Swift.

See you on George Street!

Here’s the 2009 Highlight Reel Scope Digital just released…

:: Scope Digital Media :: 2009 from Warren Robertson on Vimeo.

Warren has shot almost every major music festival in Atlantic Canada including Stanfest, Evolve, the East Coast Music Awards, and Nova Scotia Music Week. He has shot artists from Don McLean, Sarah Harmer and Corb Lund to Kim Wempe, Chris Colepaugh and Carleton Stone Drives the Big Wheel.

If you’re thinking about shooting video for promotion or production, you should probably check out the new Scope Digital website.

Oh babe you’re lass vicious
Oh babe you’re just my style
Oh babe you’re lass vicious
Come and sit with me a while…

This is how my day starts. Over and over, I sing these words in my head while brushing my teeth and out loud making my morning coffee. The new Old Man Luedecke record is firmly planted in my head.

I was hooked the first time I played the new record about a month ago while working on a spotlight for Canadian indie music blog NxEW.ca.

Woebetide the doer of the deed…

This seriously goes through my head at least once every 15 minutes. I sing it without realizing and people around me are getting annoyed.

Down the road down the road I am following your sad eyes
All the way all the way from a castle filled with white lies
down the road down the road down the road

What I’m saying, is this is really good record and you should probably go listen to it right now. Then read the North by East West Spotlight (Old Man Luedecke – My Hands are on Fire and other Love Songs).

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Client: Candice Chantrell / Sound of Pop Records
Website: candicechantrell.com
Services: WordPress Web Development (Basic Setup & CSS Programming), Graphic Design

If you haven’t, maybe it’s time you did. It’s cool… we can wait.

Done? OK.

Regardless of how you answered the question, you’re thinking about connecting with your audience right now. Maybe you have some ideas about how you could reach people better in your live show, your Facebook and Twitter updates, your email newsletters or on your website. Maybe you’re so lost in this new digital world of music that you can’t tell the difference between Myspace and the space bar. Or, most likely, you’re somewhere in between.

Take a cruise around this new site of ours and learn a little bit more about the things we can do, who we’ve been working with, and what we’ve learned along the way. Maybe it’ll spark a new idea to help you do a better job of reaching your audience. And maybe…just maybe… you’ll see a way we could help you do it.

And when you do, we’ll be right over here waiting to meet you.

Kim Wempe’s song “Oh Heart” often turns a room to tears by the time she reaches the second verse. When she steps away from the microphone to let her powerful voice ring out unassisted, it can take your breath away. The power of the song immediately grabbed the creative team on the Showcase network’s drama Cra$h & Burn. They borrowed a clip from the song to help “create a moment” in a recent episode. The lyrics and music have also be recognized in the songwriting community as Oh Heart was recently named a semi-finalist in the 2009 International Songwriting Competition. The radio mix and alternate take of the song can be found on the ECMA winning Where I Need to Be EP. Listen the to track above or click for a free download.

“Sunny Days”, one of the 10 tracks on the record, recently won the Folk category of the 2009 ISSA Songwriting Competition and Carmel is giving it away for free here on her site.