Let me add my own little "Yeah" for Erik, who has been a true indie music supporter for DECADES. The style posers will always come and go, but the true believers like Erik keep this music alive, against all odds.

Erik, the major economic issues you face are faced by us all -- no one is buying much product, but plenty sure are copying and "sharing it" (it's called stealing in the real world). This is putting so many indie labels and producers out of business, but won't stop anytime soon.

So I hope you will keep the faith and continue to put out great stuff! We have no other choice, lol. 

-- your friends in the Arizona desert. :) 

I still love vinyl and even the poor little CD, but I think I may have released my last physical music product.

So -- I'll soon move all of my catalog to online digital download -- and I was wondering what other label owners here think is the best download site to use? I'm leaning toward Bandcamp, since I can provide full-res WAV files (and FLAC) to fans as well as low-res MP3s, along with cover art and liner notes, etc.

Any opinions from other labels/bands on the best way to have a digital download service?

Thanks, and fuzz it!

Many thanks for all the suggestions. I'm surprised, though, that there aren't more sites geared at garage-psych fans that take advertising. With all respect to the mighty prrinted zine (and my career as a print journalist) I have to say that advertising in print (especially when there are months between issues) isn't nearly as effective anymore compared to online...

PunkNews.org has a shitload of readers... a fickle bunch, but there are a shitload of them. 

A reminder that the garage-punk track "Santa Fuzz", from the new Marshmallow Overcoat 6-CD box set, is available for podcast from music alley:

http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=2bb98b598b9d357c90be7e17150fe02e

Thanks, and fuzz it! :)

I got a Burns Double Six recently for $900 USD.  Very happy with it to say the least.  If I were to have gone the chaepo route, I would also have been very happy with the Dano but they weren't reissuing them at the time.  Now they are.  Musician's Friend $300

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/danelectro-12sdc-12-string-electric-guitar/423552000001000

burns double 6 is like 600

thanks lads really helpful.

you can get a danelectro for around 200-300 bucks on ebay

I got a Rickenbacker copy off of ebay a few years ago. It was made in indonesia, no specific make on it. It has done a pretty good job, not quite as nice as a rickenbacker but it only cost me $300.

A brand that I would check out would be Agile. I have a 12 string they made and it is great! Cost me the same as the Rickenbacker copy. Another brand to check out would be Dillion.

Hope this helped!

^Rickenbacker copy of mine.

I'm talking about some cheaper than rickenbacen or vox or burns..

has to be Lava Lounge don't it - occasionally in Leicester...

Nouveau Casino in Paris ,france is a nice club too but fancy, drinks are expensive .

I saw Billy Childish and the buff medways in  2003 there , 2 hours of pure joy !

i'll go with the Bassy Club in Berlin, went there in september one night ! beautiful club and cool people ! music only before 1969 !

This Ain't Hollywood.....Hamilton Ontario Canada. Great vibe, great sound and loads of cool bands have played there since it opened up a coupla years ago....Here's The Fleshtones checking out the furniture for robustness at This Ain't Hollywood this past September.

No one's mentioned The Ghastly Ones?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWnOfwsvZWU

On our last 7" with The Cavaliers we do the Bunker Hill /Linkwray cover , "dance party" released on Kizmiaz records.

I may be biased, but I'm kind of partial to Red Hot Rebellion.

http://teaser.redhotrebellion.com 

The Dustaphonics....UK based combo who record on Dirty Water Records. They mix in some soul, 60's surf, garage and whatever else to make some really cool Rock'n'Roll!

http://www.reverbnation.com/dustaphonics

I was there at the death , a small pub in canterbury hailed the end of the shanks those legends of medway punk rock. A brilliant set only interrupted by Dick Scum feeling unwell ( i thought he was going to pop his fucking clogs) but he finished the number Val Doonican style on a bar stool. What a bleeding trooper.

Rinjo Njori said:

When I asked them why they weren't coming to NYC, they said that last time they came no one came to their show. NYC really doesn't appreciate the classic acts. It's sad.

Hi everyone ,

I'm Eric from Poitiers (France).

I'm running  "The Go Sound Invasion" radioshow with my friend David for almost 17 years.

Being a teen I listened to shitty music , then a friend introduce me to the Sex Pistols and The Clash: my life changed.

Then I discover Nuggets and Back from the grave etc ......

http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/THEGOSOUNDINVASION

Glad to be member of the Garagepunk hideout.

Have a nice day.

E.

My name is Jeremy, I'm 37, married, with two bad ass daughters.

I live in a tiny, tiny town in oklahoma.

I play guitar and sing in a band called the Flash Bangs: http://www.facebook.com/theflashbangs

I've been listening to this kind of music for a good long while. I love oldies stations (or loved, I guess, there's not any around here anymore), anything manic and raw, and anything Nuggets-esque. I love talking about music, writing music, recording music, and performing music. I don't like getting into pissing matches with hipsters about obscurities. I like meeting nice people.

I'd love it if there were some adults who liked this kind of rock and roll in the Tulsa area, because I feel like I've already met or are playing with most of them, lol. Look me up on facebook if you are so inclined, and if you've got a garage rock band wanting to do a show in Tulsa, The Flash Bangs would love to have you close for us ;-)

@Justin - It doesn't really work like that, the similar artists are determined by people's listening habits, and how they tag bands/songs. You basically have to find people on there who listen to bands that YOU think your band sounds like, and add them as friends, then ask them to listen to and tag your band. It's a huge pain in the ass.

As far as the photos go, I think you're pretty much screwed. Last.fm is all Wiki-based, so anyone can add whatever they want and it seems like there's very little moderation going on over there. 

Justin Scarred said:

Last.fm is currently the bane of my existence. The site is cool and the features are cool, but the similar artists for our band is all jacked and there's no way to fix it. Pretty frustrating, also frustrating to get them to delete the pictures when your lineup changes and stuff. 

I guess it's my fault for ignoring last.fm for the last four years. We used to be on a super extra-punk label and I guess a lot of bands who wanted to be on that label tagged their stuff as being similar to ours and it's not at all. Just as an example listen to this song and then click on any of the "similar artists" - apples to oranges.

 

Anyone else have their band's stuff up there? Have you ever had this problem? Right now we're trying to get our street team to "scrobble" so that this gets fixed, but they don't say how often they re-set the "similar artists" thingy

http://www.last.fm/user/deadcitydealers

Band page: http://www.last.fm/music/Sam+Sinister

Oh boy, more fun.