Happy Holidays from Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs to all the Bang Bang Gang around the world!
Here are some great photoshops Bang Bangers sent us….

And my favorite

New music coming at ya soon!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, for real. It’s just gotta get mastered then it’s ready to go.

Being an indie band you thrive on the insider fans who support the work you do from
promoting your music to their friends, buying your albums and making sure they
check you out when you pop over for a gig in their city.

Now, thanks to advancements in technology and greater tools for people to organise into
tribes, Indie bands and artists are in a great place to have their art reach
out further and further. One of these new advancements has brought to the world
the iPad and the app known as Aweditorium – aural happiness. It’s a music
discovery app similar to Bingo HQ a discovery service for the bingo
industry.

Aweditorium is a magical app and helps you discover new indie artists like no other service
available today. All artists are presented in a grid format with just a photo
of the group or solo artist. You navigate through the grid by using your hand
as you fly through the grid discovering bands and artist you surely hadn’t
heard of before. It’s like navigating your own private music space – flying
left, right, up and down and once you click on an image of  a band, the
magic unfolds before your eyes.

The music starts to play and it is here where aural happiness takes place. Once you make
that connection with the newly discovered artist, you get to learn about them
through key engaging elements. First, you get a high resolution photo of the
band or artist. Then you get clear facts about the musician as you are
listening to their song via pop up clouds that help you better understand the
musician.

Since we live in a social and connected world, Aweditorium helps you promote your new
discovered artist with friends on Facebook and Twitter. You also get to see
video interviews that are on Youtube about the musician and if you really love
what you’re hearing you can buy the song via iTunes as well as find more
available songs on the app by the musician.

It really is an awesome app and engaging experience for music lovers.

Bo Jeff Jones

Scary Cherry Manager

So, it appears that Spotify is something of a big deal, and I think we have all heard that it’s not a great deal for bands. For the price of admission (read: nothing, really), the label tends to get the vast majority of the money, and the revenue is somewhat ridiculous. Lady Gaga had only made a few hundred dollars last time someone checked, so it seems unlikely that smaller music acts will see any benefit in signing up.

The best thing about Spotify is the universal accessibility of music to curious users who will see, for example, Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs pop up in the “related artists” section of a band that are categorized similarly to us. This means that there’s more chance of someone stumbling across our epic tunes and of course, being able to link to them and share them with Facebook friends via the integration of that particular social network helps our listener base grow even more.

The lowdown is essentially this – if you want people to happen across your band, you ensure that you’re on as many music sites as possible. It’s basic marketing, and although Spotify’s a far cry from a potential revenue stream, everyone from the odd Cheeky Bingo player in search of the perfect gaming playlist to record label scouts can track down your works of musical art and offer you some big ones for your trouble.

The Internet’s definitely where the music industry is headed – digital sales are up, physical sales are down, and most people tend to find new tunes by surfing the web or using Spotify, Last.fm or Pandora So it’s up to us and other bands to jump on the, well, the bandwagon, and offer their musical output to anyone who likes to listen to good tunes they may not know about via conventional channels… yet.

Bo Jeff Jones – Scary Cherry Official Manager