In addition to spreading the word about OLP I'm also big into local favorites.
(See: Watershedand LORI)
What do you guys do aside from like posting up flyers or talking abou them on messages boards, to spread the word and promote your local and national favorites?
Thanks in advance for some ideas!
-- Brian
Promoting local bands
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superrgirll
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i rock 
-lori
she's a fool for the last living rock king
http://www.livejournal.com/~got_to_get_away/
HARDCORE!
she's a fool for the last living rock king
http://www.livejournal.com/~got_to_get_away/
HARDCORE!
I used to be really into this local band from Philly called Trace Fury. Actually, I still love them, but, sadly, they broke up, so no need to promote them anymore. Anyway, I e-mailed the band to see if I could get their permission to make some CD-R copies of 2 or 3 songs from their LP and I would put the CDs in paper sleves and post them on bullitin boards around my college. I'm not sure how well that worked, but one thing's for sure...it didn't hurt!
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nikki4982
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Free burned cds is always a help..... as long as the band doesn't suck.
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"If you put those on the internet, I'll kill you guys!" - Jer</td></tr></table>
<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>
<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
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right now i'm promotin a band called kingdead belonging to the guy i'm kinda sorta obsessed with 
i sent a copy of his cd to my favourite band. i have his link in my sig. i offer to do cd swaps with other local bands to try and diversify the number of people who hear his stuff. i show everyone i can the movie that they did the soundtrack for.
im planning to print off random posters with these two pictures from his website on them (the dog and the turtle) and post them around the city, in the most unusual places possible so that hopefully some people will jot down the website addy and visit it outta curiosity.
i sent a copy of his cd to my favourite band. i have his link in my sig. i offer to do cd swaps with other local bands to try and diversify the number of people who hear his stuff. i show everyone i can the movie that they did the soundtrack for.
im planning to print off random posters with these two pictures from his website on them (the dog and the turtle) and post them around the city, in the most unusual places possible so that hopefully some people will jot down the website addy and visit it outta curiosity.