-- 05/07/08
R.I.P. Scott Johnson - Love, Calvin
Scott Johnson
April 3, 1957 - May 3, 2008
Scott's music can be found on indieonestop.com HERE.
Services are May 10, 2008. Please go to the funeral home site to read the obituary and contribute to the guest book listings. Scott left behind two daughters and four grandchildren. I'm sure they'd love to hear from people around the world who will continue to be touched by Scott's music.
I first heard Scott's music in 1992 when he sent me a tape called "Mr. Joy." I played that tape in my car all summer long and it's still one of my alltime favorite albums.
Go Go, Scott. I love you, man.
Raymond Scott Woolson -- 02/23/08
Currently...
...handcuffed to various guitars, recording a new album to be released before the end of 2008.
Dick Metcalf, aka Rotcod Zzaj -- 01/08/08
Zzaj PODCAST
We've had a PODCAST up for a while now; thought I'd try & link THAT in here as well, since this site is all about MUSIC:
-- 01/01/08
John Bergin's upcoming movie
John Bergin sent us some amazing cassette packages as TRUST OBEY back in GAJOOB's days of print publishing. Along with the music, Bergin was the author/illustrator of several graphic novels which came our way as well. During a day of web surfing for old contact, I found John's web site and discovered he's been a success album cover designer as well.
Anyway while surfing around I discovered Bergin been working for a couple years on a movie based on one of his graphic novels. There are some clips and still online and John's been keeping a blog as well. I'm really looking forward to this.
Check it out: FROM INSIDE
-- 12/10/07
Many More Weekend Additions
We've added several features over the weekend. We've been playing around with the tab categories and added a "Commentary" tab where you'll see new links to Musician blogs (that's you artists), along with a "CREATE" link (if you're logged in) so you can leave a quick post without leaving the main area. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts and whatnot here. IF you find something cool in your internet travels, you might want to stop over and share it here as well. A blog post can be something as quick as sharing a YouTube link (just copy and paste the embed code -- it's easy). Oh, and while we're talking commentary, click on the "RANDOM SONG" link. I think it's a really fun way to listen to new music. So listen and tell us what you think. Keep clicking the link and a new random song will follow. The "comment" links throughout the site have been made easier to access this weekend. You'll find links to song details in all the chart listings.
Artist profiles have some new features. You'll find links to details for each song, a listing of visitor comments, links to your blog posts and shared links, and a new guestbook where visitors can leave their mark.
Oh, and under the "Content" tab, you'll find a bunch of flash games you can play while listening.
-- 12/07/07
Calendar of Events
You have always been able to enter events into your artist profile page; but we haven't displayed them out front for a while. Now just click on the "New" tab and click the "EVENTS" link to display all the upcoming events from all artists in the IndieOneStop community. Obviously, it's a feature that's a bit dusty since I had to enter an event myself to kick-start things a bit. These events will also show up on your profile page.
You'll notice that events now also have the capacity to include ticket sales. We're currently putting some finishing touches on IndieOneStop's digital and online sales backend and ticket sales, along with various digital sales items (mp3's, PDF's for books and magazines, art, etc.) will all be supported.
-- 12/05/07
Press Kit
We've added a press kit link to the artist profiles viewable out in the main site. We've also added a couple extra fields in your Artist Profile in which you can enter information such as booking and anything else you might want to put on your Press Kit page. Clicking the PRESS KIT link will generate a PDF on the fly, containing this information, allowing venues, publishers, and others to get a quick print out of your activities for reference.
So, update your Artist Profile information. I'll be updating the Press Kit with other items, but this basic format should be useful.
-- 12/03/07
New Additions: Store Updates, Infobase Flagging
This weekend was spent with further coding to begin bringing our artist's store items out to the front. You'll notice a new "Shop" button in the navigation bar. For those of you who are new to IndieOneStop, our store is created both by IndieOneStop selling items by artists on consignment and by our community of artists on the site selling items either directly from their own or an affiliated label's web site, CDBaby, or Amazon. There is no shopping cart for physical items -- if you want something, support the artist directly by purchasing it. Then drop a note to the artist directly at IndieOneStop to let them know you got and what you think.
Currently the IndieOneStop Shop is quickly coding the music we have and we should have that completed within the next couple of days. After that, we'll be adding more categories as we open up new categories of artists: Publishers with zines to sell, Artists with posters to sell, etc.
You'll also notice a new "Services" button in the main naviagation bar. This is currently under development; probably several weeks out we should have this well on its way to integrating the services of our artist community in a way that visitors can find services being offered by all kinds of artists.
Lastly, I've coded a new feature into our Infobase (click the "Content" tab) that allows you flag entries for viewing in a combined list of your own flagged entries. This should be helpful if you're looking for publications to review your CD, for instance. You could run down the list of entries in the "publications" and "reviews" categories, flagging possible choices as you go.
Basically what happens when you click the "Flag This" button is that it places a link to that item in a box which can be found in your profile. Feel free to just delete the code in this box whenever you want to start with a fresh flagged list.
-- 11/29/07
Updates: Infobase, Your Jobs In Progress
I've completed updates to our large infobase of music-related resources, links, news, whathaveyou. You can now search the database by entering any possible keyword, in addition to having the ability to browse categories. As I've said, it's a large database in need of updating, but there's lots of good information to be had as well; and over the course of the next few months, I'm hoping the more it's used the more up-to-date the information will become.
I've also completed a new IndieOneStop feature which provides a new link in your status bar (control panel, notes, login -- just under the logo) for those of you have jobs in production here. The link will display notes on your job(s) and estimated delivery.
Next up we'll be incorporating PUBLISHERS as a user option at IndieOneStop to join music and musicians here with publishers, including blogs, zines, radio shows, etc. It'll be very nice for both sides and hopefully we can bring a few active publishers here and have some cool coverage for deserving artists and hungry readers.
-- 11/26/07
DiscoverSounds Radio Show
A warm welcome to all our new artists. We had lots of new artists playing their music here last week. Which makes it exciting to figure out ways to let our listeners and new music fans find it.
I hosted a show on the popular local community radio station KRCL in Salt Lake City in 1992-1994ish called "Cassette Culture Shock." It was lots of fun playing cassette albums I was receiving from all over the world in the early morning hours.
So I'd like to start up another show with your help... I need all of you artists to create some extra content. Station IDs and "interviews".
STATION IDs
One of the things I thought was fun on the old show was having people making all this cool music send me Station ID's. I got lots of wild ID's from all over; some were very creative with effects and everything, some were straightforward and all of it was good. They break up the song-after-song kind of thing. Just make something around 30 seconds and upload it to your artist page here. Really.
SONG INTROS
Get yourself and/or your band together and have someone interview you. Or just do a short anecdote or something. Like, "Hey this is Joe Schmoe from Schmoe band in Jonestown and we just came out of the Woodshed Studios with our new album. It's got some crazy stuff; like one song that Jack wrote about this time he was hitchhiking in Georgia and came across this body and we sorta took it to this other level and what can I say? Maybe it was the alcohol or the distinct lack thereof, but you really should check it out." Or something like that...
INTERVIEWS
Yeah, have someone do an interview with you. Keep it fast and under 5 minutes. Have fun with it. Or talk about something different you do when recording or playing live. Or talk about something strange that happened. Or even talk about your kid sister. Just talk about something and upload it to your artist page.
After you upload something tell us via the contact form. We'll add you to the show. I'm not sure if we'll keep these radio bits on your page or siphon them off.
I hope to get lots of stuff soon so we can start the show right away. I've still got stuff saved from Cassette Culture Shock which I'll be throwing in as well so you'll want to tune in for that.
More slight adjustments to the navigation
