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Once upon a time, the major labels controlled the charts absolutely with an iron fist. Radio stations only playlisted tracks from major labels, payola was rife and pluggers knew the station controllers on a first name basis, they were in their offices so frequently.
Today, the major labels control the charts, but independence is slowly making itself felt. Radio stations still really only playlist tracks from major labels, but even with the passing of John Peen there are still some notable torchbearers for new, fresh and independent music (think Zane Lowe et al). Payola? Well, it’s still probably there to an …
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After the success of Justin’s debut album ‘Silvermoon’, Revolver’s pleased to present his follow-up single, Nothing Better – available right now on iTunes.
If you’ve not been keeping an eye on the news recently, you might have missed the announcement from EDC that they have decided to shut down their Blackburn manufacturing facility on the 31st of December this year. From then on, all of their manufacturing operations will be moved to EDC’s Hannover facilities. As one of the last remaining CD manufacturers with facilities actually located in the UK, this has come as sad news – not only for the Blackburn’s local economy and the company’s employees, but for the entire music industry in general.
Jack Straw, the Blackburn …
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What are we up to? What’s the latest with the Revolver Digital service? Find out all the gory details here, coming direct to you from Revolver Towers.
… We know. We’re too good to you people. “What,” we can hear you say, ‘Revolver Digital gives me free barcodes AND Free ISRCs AND doesn’t charge me to upload my music to iTunes?” Yep, you got it. We don’t charge for any of that good stuff.
If you went elsewhere, you might be out of pocket to the tune of almost £100 before you even got started if you requested those features with another company. Plus, how do you know that they won’t just take your money and run? Some companies even charge a yearly fee just for “storage and …
Hopefully you won’t have noticed (because our resident codemonkey and geek was so brutally efficient) but the Revolver Digital site has moved webhosts. Things like page load times should be drastically reduced for our visitors – it was getting a little ridiculous before.
If you have any problems with the web site in the next 48 hours, please let us know.
For many bands, marketing their material to record labels is one of the most gruelling things they have to do (aside from gigging!) Here at Revolver Towers, we get tens and hundreds of demo packages every week – we have boxes full of them – and unfortunately we don’t always have time to actually open and listen to the music.
You’ll find this situation at labels all round the country – and the larger the label, the less time you will have to make an impression on whoever’s listening to …
