Anyone on /mu/ ever get signed / officially release anything?

I'm on 4AD. In a duo.

>>70692194
>>70692220
what band?

>>70692194
Also I seem to recall stories of Lorde lurking and submitting shit to SC threads before she blew up. Is there any truth to this?

Not really but, apparently lots of bands are let go after one album. The band has to create its market first is my opinion or it may as well self release.

Are labels even worth it? Like, you're not really gonna live off of music if you're on some small indie label.

got signed to what? i remember seeing this guy in threads. whats his name again? something intruder something

>>70692220
tune-yards

>>70692271
Nope. Lemon Twigs

>>70692259
Unwanted Houseguest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXeWPTNjPxc

Not sure where he got signed. I follow him on instagram and earlier he posted a pic in some fancy studio. Someone asked him what was up in the comments and he said he was "signing papers"

My question, though: what does signing actually do? Do you get money to make music?

I was offered a record deal with some independent internet label because of a vaporwave EP that I put out as a joke a few years back. I declined.

>>70692232
She denies it but yes she posted early demos that are unmistakably her. Someone asked her on twitter if she used to browse /mu/ and she said "o i am laffin"

It's the origin of that phrase.

>>70692297
What was the deal, though? They would pay you money to release it? Sorry I'm just totally fucking clueless as to how the music industry works.

>>70692320
From my understanding they can pay you some money up front to finish a release, but you're basically selling your fucking soul. Fuck signing to some small label. Probably get nothing out of it.

>>70692239
Agreed. Self release until you at least have a decent fan base. Looks like this guy only has 100 YT subscribers lol. He must know someone.

>>70692320
What seems to happen is bands get an advance on sales which they then use to record the album and then royally piss the rest up the wall, get let go and then wonder why they then have less than what they even started with before they met the label.

>>70692232
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1wt8jl/lorde_posting_her_song_royals_on_mu_in_2012/cf5ntch/
She denied having anything to do with us :'(
Admitting she was on 4chan would be career suicide for her tho so not sure what I expected

>>70692194
It's mostly just about making connections, pitching yourself and having something original or easy to market. I'm planning on shopping around for labels when I finish my album. Just hoping it doesn't end up being as hard as Meat Loaf had it when he went pitching Bat Out Of Hell to labels.

>>70692320
It doesn't work. Some people find their audience but the vast majority get chewed up and shit out. Self-release and play small venues until you find your audience. Labels are fucking obsolete.

Or you might be signed so that you're not a threat to the big talent already on the rosta and effectively moth-balled with no legal rights to anything ever until blackhole death of the universe.

>>70692422
>Labels are fucking obsolete.
Not quite.

>>70692361
Eh one of his vids has 3k views. I've seen other signed bands with fewer views. People need to stop acting like getting signed is a good thing, though. Indie artists especially they just fuck over for a few bucks and then tell them to fuck off.

>>70692416
How do you shop it around? Do you set up meetings? I imagine online submissions don't do shit.

>>70692442
For a indie artist starting off they are. There are easier ways online to establish your own brand without selling over the rights to all your music.

>>70692294
You can get some money up front. A lot of indie labels have basically no money though and can only do very limited runs which won't help you much unless you have a base.

>>70692483
Really? A small sympathetic label could help get a rookie band rolling. Self releasing is still pissing in the wind just the same.

>>70692430
Exactly what happened to my cousin's band.

>>70692294
yikes that song is pretty bad.

>>70692536
Play live.
Play live.
Play live.
Talk to random small venues. Open for some random shit you've never heard of. Find a band that's like you and contact them. Putting shit online is shouting into the void, but putting on a good live show gets you interest.

€1,500 @ 35% apr, that's a 300 box of cds and some promotion.

>>70692294
>this gets signed
Shit there's hope for me yet

>>70692572
*pfffff* the he'll of it all.

>>70692422
>labels don't want my shit so I'll tell everyone that labels suck
You're not totally wrong but your post seems a bit clouded by personal experience

>>70692194
>tfw I went to school with PWR BTTM and now they're blowing up
AMA

>>70692635
are they gay

Publish you're music. You can buy stickers with a barcode. It's like an isbn for songs. You're going to need legal protection if the band is serious. Would you take Chuck Berry to court? Of course you would.

>>70692698
one is
the other only pretends to be

It's always funny to me how people blame the "shitty music industry" for their failure to succeed as a professional artist. 99% of music released on labels that does not gain any traction isn't very good. But no, keep blaming labels for your generic and laughably average indie rock band's success.

>>70692595
How does a small label "promote" you exactly??

>>70692294
The video is alright but the music is nothing special. Based off the image I thought the music would be more interesting.

>>70692825
What I mean is take out a credit card offer and spa zz it all on the first record and printing some flyers and phoning every record shop in the USA. That might do it. Seriously.

Leave dirty messages on their mom's mobile, it's a good hook to get going with.

>>70692877
Eh I have some money in savings.
Maybe I'll just fucking go for it.

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>>70692799
>99% of music released on labels that does not gain any traction isn't very good

ya but lables and publicists are also like a filter, people will assume you're an amateur if you don't have them.

>>70692877
Is it worth printing physical media? Who gives a fuck about CDs anymore

>>70692937
Unbearably this isn't even true.

>>70692948
Depends on your market.

Because I think streaming is back-firing, the whole thing is a total mess.

>>70693003
>find out my shit has actually been played a fair bit on spotify
>made 10 dollars
Streaming sucks.

Didn't Will Toledo post his early Car Seat Headrest stuff here?

>>70693127
Yep

I was gonna play the bass for some guy but he didn't pay me so FUCK THAT. Played for free for like 1 month

There was a black metal band that apparently did.

>>70693127
no, but he browsed here

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This is how you get signed in 2017 ad.

Make a a viral youtube video and catchy song that becomes a big hit, spread it onto every social media platform, bribe click bait journalists to write about you.
Bribe small time music critics to review your shitty music.

Then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IYzXRhF_4

>>70694172
worked with diiv minus the catchy music. just some fag who plays "dress up and pretend to be a dead rockstar" and makes tryhard core. The only way they can try any harder is if the frontman legally changed his name to Kurt Cobain

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>>70694172
part 2

after having gained the attention of jew business men and singing a contract so they can own the rights to your music.

Spam yourself on mu, using the technique of meme magic, you will force yourself and or your band into becoming a forced meme, do not be dishearten by people who hate you, you must channel your autism into spamming every day till trolls start doing it for you ironically.


Once this is accomplished, go live in Brooklyn and pretend to be friends with the pitchfork writers till they give you a good score, make sure to provide them with heroin

Once you have commodifed, and meme'ed yourself into becoming a well known brand, every now and then do something shocking or funny for attention so no one forgets.

Also release music or something

Hmm, now how does on find a good producer?

>>70694453
Pretty sure there's a production general. lurk then ask around there. check out soundcloud threads too.

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Its actually like way easier to get signed in the internet era, its just you make no money because you get jewed out of it by 360 deals, and music piracy.

Like, its the same concept of getting famous, its way easier now, one youtube video, one funny pic.

The media is soooooooo easy to manipulate.
Look at trump, all he has to do is say "mexicans are rapists", and he gets wall to wall coverage and walks into the white house.


Just make some fake email accounts and pretend to be other people, then send a video of yourself doing something stupid or crazy to clickbait sites, from there more and more click bait sites will pick it up, then it will keep moving up the food chain and you're famous over night.

There is this really great book called trust me im lying that explains lots of ways to manipulate the media.

Also you could probably just google techniques on how to go viral