Show Update

Happy Holidays everyone!

I just wanted to give a quick update for those who haven’t caught or watched the recent “Facebook Live's. 

According to the Poll I published on Facebook last week, it seems that there is an overwhelming positive response to the live streaming broadcast returning, and broadcasting on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. (est). Look for this after the New Years Holiday.

This will be the final run of live streaming shows, to run through the 10th anniversary of Indie Spotlight.  This spotlight series will be called, appropriately enough, “One More Time”.

While I will use Facebook Live to report “behind the scenes” the actual live show will resume on the Indie Spotlight page on camup.tv (https://www.camup.tv/users/indie-spotlight-live). I will no longer archive past shows on soundcloud.

And finally I do have plans for at least one musician interview when the live show restarts, stay tuned for details.

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for all the support and I’m looking forward to a positive and fun 2019!

Pete Berwick's Latest, Island

I got an early Christmas present this year, an advance copy of Pete Berwick’s latest album, Island.  If you are at all familiar with Pete (and I would think that most people that follow this page would be) then conventional is not a term that I think any of us would ever associate with him, and Island continues that trend.

To say that this is “country” or “rock” or any other genre would be misleading at the very least, Berwick’s music doesn’t fit into any of those molds and instead breaks all of them. Island is the latest of what might be called his natural progression, beginning with Only Bleeding, through the nastyness of the music industry that became Ain’t No Train Outta Nashville, the brute honesty of Just Another Day In Hell, which continued with Give it Time, and started to see things a little differently with The Legend of Tyler Doohan.

When I listen to Island I’m hearing what I consider the best of Pete Berwick, who is now at the part of his musical journey where he is comfortable with where he is right now, musically as well as personally. When you listen to his past albums before listening to this one, you really feel as though you’ve followed someone going full circle, and are glad you followed his journey with him.

Grab it now, you won’t regret it.

https://peteberwick1.bandcamp.com/album/island

Facebook Live from 11/26/18

It worked after 3 takes in case anyone was wondering lol

5 Years Ago.....

3/27/13 is when blogtv.com shut down for good, honestly I hadn't thought about it until just now when I saw a post on Facebook about it. Looking back, it's hard to believe that it's been that long, the passage of time is a strange thing isn't it? I miss those days, but I'm glad that I got to enjoy it for the amount of time that I did, we had some amazing shows on there as well as having met some amazing people that I'm lucky enough to have kept in touch with.

So, 5 years on, and where is Indie Spotlight, the broadcast as well as the brand? While I've answered it before I really haven't talked about it a whole lot so here goes...

Regular live streaming broadcast, done, while I might do an occasional show it's more of a "special" now where I doing a show for a specific purpose (such as spotlighting a particular artist, etc). I'm considering maybe a monthly broadcast? The reason I shut down the weekly show was due to lack of interest and since I've been considering a monthly podcast this would work since I would do what I was doing before (live show, then upload the podcast to be listened to later).

Social media is where I've been focusing as far as promoting independent musicians, although Facebook sucks because they've been limiting posts from pages not associated with an individual, basically what this means is that unless I boost the posts on my Indie Spotlight page many people, even though they follow the page, won't see the posts and while I can tell people to like posts, set to follow first, etc I'm one of many pages and posters that are asking people to do this so I know those posts turn into white noise real quick which really sucks because Facebook used to be a really great platform for pages like mine promoting something that not many other people do.

While I plan on getting back to the "daily video" format (which also cross posts on Twitter in case you didn't know) I'm wondering if even that is worth the time, and I can't blame lack of interest as much as the way Facebook is treating pages dedicated to something as opposed to someone (make sense?)

There are so many things that I would still like to do with Indie Spotlight, but if I keep hitting a brick wall every time I find a way to keep at least a part of it going, why the hell am I even going to bother?

Then I realize that the "Lamestream Music Industry" would love for me to have that attitude, and that in itself is a reason to at least keep the social media pages active.

Read those last two paragraphs again, something to think about.