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!
Friday, December 21, 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Pete Berwick's Latest, Island
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
Monday, November 26, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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.
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.
Friday, December 8, 2017
End of 2017 Update
Hey everyone, happy holidays!
I thought that maybe this would be a good time to update everyone on everything "Indie Spotlight"
First, the live streaming broadcast, done. While I might do a random live show here or there for the hell of it, it's over, there just doesn't seem to be any interest and this is not the fault of our final hosting site, Camup has been an amazing site to host on, this is mostly because we've had to change hosting sites so many times over the last 5 or so years that we've gained and lost viewership, and overall, at least for this format, there just isn't an interest in the live streaming format anymore, at least for this kind of show.
The next piece of this, and I'd really love some feedback, is the podcasting alternative, I'm thinking a once a month, 3 hour podcast, thoughts?
Social media, well, here is where it gets interesting, Facebook doesn't allow you to play YouTube videos on site anymore, when you click the link, it takes you to the YouTube page, (Twitter still plays them onsite) so while I am going to go back to posting the daily videos I need to see if there is some interest there, yes, I need to see "likes" as well as "shares" to tell me if it's worthwhile to keep up the social media presence, otherwise, and again, hate to sound like an ass, but I'm being honest, I don't see a reason to continue on if it's not being shared around, this is the purpose of Indie Spotlight afterall, promote and fight for the little guy/gal and why not? Some amazing music has been shared on these pages, and if there is an interest will continue to be shared.
I do have to admit, that I'm very proud of Indie Spotlight, come what may with the future of it, I mean, how many people can say that they've been able to do something that they are passionate about, for any length of time, much less breathe life into it for as long as I have and it has been one hell of a ride no matter what comes of it going forward but I do hope that at least people will like, and most importantly share the daily videos, as well that the podcast.
I thought that maybe this would be a good time to update everyone on everything "Indie Spotlight"
First, the live streaming broadcast, done. While I might do a random live show here or there for the hell of it, it's over, there just doesn't seem to be any interest and this is not the fault of our final hosting site, Camup has been an amazing site to host on, this is mostly because we've had to change hosting sites so many times over the last 5 or so years that we've gained and lost viewership, and overall, at least for this format, there just isn't an interest in the live streaming format anymore, at least for this kind of show.
The next piece of this, and I'd really love some feedback, is the podcasting alternative, I'm thinking a once a month, 3 hour podcast, thoughts?
Social media, well, here is where it gets interesting, Facebook doesn't allow you to play YouTube videos on site anymore, when you click the link, it takes you to the YouTube page, (Twitter still plays them onsite) so while I am going to go back to posting the daily videos I need to see if there is some interest there, yes, I need to see "likes" as well as "shares" to tell me if it's worthwhile to keep up the social media presence, otherwise, and again, hate to sound like an ass, but I'm being honest, I don't see a reason to continue on if it's not being shared around, this is the purpose of Indie Spotlight afterall, promote and fight for the little guy/gal and why not? Some amazing music has been shared on these pages, and if there is an interest will continue to be shared.
I do have to admit, that I'm very proud of Indie Spotlight, come what may with the future of it, I mean, how many people can say that they've been able to do something that they are passionate about, for any length of time, much less breathe life into it for as long as I have and it has been one hell of a ride no matter what comes of it going forward but I do hope that at least people will like, and most importantly share the daily videos, as well that the podcast.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
One For The Road - Last Call
Hey everyone, a quick update on the live streaming broadcast...
The quick and dirty is that I haven't either had the time or the energy the past 2 Sundays, and to be honest except for one or two people I really haven't had anyone hanging out of late anyway.
So, I'm thinking maybe now would be a good time to just sign it off, and focus on just sharing videos on social media.
I will do one more live broadcast, although I haven't decided on the format. I can either do one last "regular broadcast", or go out with a bang, and by that I mean a "Marathon" style show where I play one song from each artist from A to Z in one show, and set it at 12 hours which should give me more than enough time to for me to give airplay to each artist at least once.
Should I decide to do the 12 hour show, it would have to be during my vacation which comes up the week after next. I would be interested in anyone's thoughts on this, please comment below.
The quick and dirty is that I haven't either had the time or the energy the past 2 Sundays, and to be honest except for one or two people I really haven't had anyone hanging out of late anyway.
So, I'm thinking maybe now would be a good time to just sign it off, and focus on just sharing videos on social media.
I will do one more live broadcast, although I haven't decided on the format. I can either do one last "regular broadcast", or go out with a bang, and by that I mean a "Marathon" style show where I play one song from each artist from A to Z in one show, and set it at 12 hours which should give me more than enough time to for me to give airplay to each artist at least once.
Should I decide to do the 12 hour show, it would have to be during my vacation which comes up the week after next. I would be interested in anyone's thoughts on this, please comment below.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
One For The Road Series
I'm calling these final live streaming broadcasts "One For The Road" as I continue to wind down the live show. Starting this Sunday I'll be playing through all the music, in alphabetic order by musician.
Since I have over 100 obviously this'll take at least a couple of weeks after which will be the "Grand Finale" broadcast.
The final show will be the most requested (along with personal favorites) songs featured on Indie Spotlight. I have to say that it's been a huge thrill to be able to do this for the past 8 years, part of me is going to miss it but it's time to move on to other projects.
The party isn't over yet folks, drop in while you can because once it's over, it's over.
Since I have over 100 obviously this'll take at least a couple of weeks after which will be the "Grand Finale" broadcast.
The final show will be the most requested (along with personal favorites) songs featured on Indie Spotlight. I have to say that it's been a huge thrill to be able to do this for the past 8 years, part of me is going to miss it but it's time to move on to other projects.
The party isn't over yet folks, drop in while you can because once it's over, it's over.
Friday, August 18, 2017
Live Streaming Broadcast Coming Back One More Time...
Posted on Facebook earlier today;
So, a quick update...
The live streaming broadcast is coming back for one final engagement, Sunday night's at 9 pm (eastern U.S.) so check it out while it lasts! I haven't decided for how long I'll keep it going but once it's done, it's done.
I have (sorta) figured out a solution for the podcast, more details about that coming soon.
Don't worry I'll still continue to share videos and promote independent musicians via social media, that isn't going away, but this will be the live show's last hurrah so pop in and say hi when you can, while you can. Have a great day everyone!
So, a quick update...
The live streaming broadcast is coming back for one final engagement, Sunday night's at 9 pm (eastern U.S.) so check it out while it lasts! I haven't decided for how long I'll keep it going but once it's done, it's done.
I have (sorta) figured out a solution for the podcast, more details about that coming soon.
Don't worry I'll still continue to share videos and promote independent musicians via social media, that isn't going away, but this will be the live show's last hurrah so pop in and say hi when you can, while you can. Have a great day everyone!
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