Victory Records FTW!

My band, “Where Men Win Glory”, has been working extremely hard lately. We have grown as a family and we are right now going to start working on our EP to record. We are all extremely talented and hardworking individual musicians who are serious about making it in the music industry. We have come along way and I have decided that I want to start preparing us for the next step in our Journey. I would like to get us signed to a Major Record Label, Victory Records.

The first steps in doing so are as follows:

1.     You need the right tools for the job, we need a good sound, original music and a hard-working good hearted band.

2.     You need to get together a Demo package. This Demo package includes videos of live performances Demo songs and photos of shows and the band.

3.     You can greatly increase the impact that your demo package will have by knowing exactly who your audience is. So learn this off that bat and make it sell-able for the record companies.

4.     Pick a Major Label in our case its Victory Records

5.     Next send them your package

6.     Maybe invite a rep. out to see one of your shows to catch a glimpse of your turn out and your live performance.

7.     Make sure you have a good idea of what you want out of a record deal and where you would like to go with your career.

8.     Once you have complete this send you demo out to other companies don’t just stick with one.

9.     After it all you wait, keep playing shows getting your name out then repeat the process later, you never know when and what labels are looking for.

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Warped Tour 2011

This year warped tour announces the line-up for the US tour this summer. The Vans Warped Tour so far has a decent line-up in my opinion. They started off with a heavy set with such bands including: Abandon All Ships, Miss May I, The Acacia Strain, and Of Mice and Men. Then more soft groups were added the majority of the bands have had an Alternative feel to them.  These Bands include, Go Radio, The Summer Set, Every Avenue, and Hello Good Bye. Then The Techno hardcore bands came: I Set My Friends on Fire, Enter Shakari, Family Force 5 and mixed genre of Dance Gavin Dance. But Warped Tour did something different this year by introducing rap groups to the line-up. These rap groups threw many Warped fans for a loop. The rap groups included artists such as: Big-B and YelaWolf! In My opinion this year’s Vans Warped Tour is going to be a melting pot of amazing-ness. It will definitely be a great tour/festival that everyone should check out. The show is in Orlando in the fairgrounds on July 29^th. But I am convinced that this year they aren’t done. I believe they are going to release more bands for headliners to shock people. To me these bands haven’t been to well known. The need more Main stage Material for this year. So stay tuned to hear any more announcements.

     “Where words fail, music speaks.”   
~Hans Christen Andersen 
I chose this qoute beacuase many people you music to express there feelings escpecially fans of the Warped Tour Bands.

Welcome Readers!

                What’s up? My name is Damien Thompson, I am seventeen years old and well music, it’s my life. When most people say it’s their life there mistaken. I was surrounded it by it when I was younger, my mom being a lyricist and my dad a professional drummer. I picked up drums when I was about 4 years old. I have been in marching band and school band playing drums ever since. I am going to write to you about some of the things that run through my head daily. The kind of stuff I think about and try to accomplish. I will give you updates on my band and on our mission to make on to warped tour 2012. I’m inspired to write lyrics rhythms and song ideas daily so ill most likely be posting some of that to, and maybe get some feedback from you readers? I will throw in some different issues going on in the news and maybe even some Video blogs showing what I do daily, or some of my goofy adventure I take part in. I am determined to be a music producer when I grow up so this will probably greatly influence my blog, it will not just be about one specific genre, I am also co producing a Rap label with some friends at their studio so that will also most likely be brought up. Music is a journey just like life. It has its ups and downs its’ sad and exciting moments. So if I can accomplish anything with this blog I hope it will be to broaden your ideas regarding music and your thoughts on the hard process of making it in a band, of any genre.  I have been surrounded by it and see that music is my, well it is my “everything”. This blog will hopefully make it become more important to people and at the same time describe who I am in a sense.