Noise Trade offers fans the choice to tell 5 friends or to pay any amount in exchange for an immediate download. Get Dolson’s “The Last Thing You Want” EP. This digital version of the EP is only available at NoiseTrade.com/dolson.
What is Noise Trade you ask?
The following is a quote from the Noise Trade About page:
Artists want to know, connect with, and be supported by music fans. Music fans want high-quality, free (or variably priced) music and to be rewarded, not punished, for sharing the music they love with their friends. We believe that if artists and fans work together, everyone can get what they want.
“A great record is its own best marketing tool,” says Derek Webb, singer/songwriter and Co-Founder of NoiseTrade. “All the marketing dollars in the world can’t accomplish what one great record can, especially if it’s set free to roam around and connect with the right people.” In 2006 Webb gave away his ‘Mockingbird’ record for free online, asking in return for a little information (name, email address, and postal code), and as part of the process, for fans to invite their friends to download as well.
In three month’s time Webb gave away over 80,000 full downloads of his record and collected valuable information for as many new fans. In addition, Derek has since seen many sold out shows and increased merchandise and record sales, including a curious spike in sales of the very record that was given for free.
It was the massive success of this experiment that inspired Webb, with the help of a few trusted friends, to start NoiseTrade. Now any artist can freely distribute their music online, via NoiseTrade’s remarkable and embeddable widget, offering fans the choice to tell 5 friends or to pay any amount in exchange for an immediate download.
“Who needs peer-to-peer when you can have artist-to-fan?” Derek concludes, “If artists and fans realized how they could help each other and started making direct connections, without a middleman, the whole industry would change overnight. It would start a revolution.”
This months post from Indie On The Move’s blog featured a story from Dolson. The title of the entry COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE! featured stories from Indie bands across the country about the tough lessons learned on the road.
The following is an excerpt from the blog.
“Last year we played New York City,” begins Andy Dolson of the northeastern Ohio-based, Dolson. “I fell asleep on a subway train, ended up in Coney Island and lost my guitar player’s pedal board on the subway, only to get it returned by the Coney Island police two days later. I got a parking ticket in Manhattan, and the next week earned myself a $140 ticket in North Carolina for watching It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia while driving. To top it all off, three weeks later I got a letter in the mail from NYCDOT. It was a snapshot of my car in the intersection with a red light, another $50 ticket.” As if that were not enough in the touring world of Dolson, “This year we got ‘pulled’ over by a cop directing traffic for not wearing a seatbelt and proceeded to hit him with our trailer.”
Fan video from Dolson’s show 2/18/10 with GRO and Sleeperstar Musica in Akron. Watch all three bands on stage singing “A Little Help From My Friends” here.
Benco and Celebrity Concerts present Dolson w/ Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s at Circus in Columbus on March 4, 2010. Advanced Tickets for this event are $12 and are available online here. Tickets are $14 at the door.
WZIP and EJ Thomas Hall present Dolson w/ Lovedrug for the Stage Door Concert Series on Saturday, March 6, at 9:00pm. Tickets are $10 for the general public and are available here. Tickets are available to U of A Students for $5.00 with a valid student ID at the EJ Thomas ticket booth and the Student Center Info Desk.
Well, besides being absolutely delicious, we will all be in Canton this Thursday @ 2pm.
WHBC 94.1 FM in Canton has just announced the exclusive appearance of Green River Ordinance @ Canton Chipotle on Dressler road.
This quote is from Mix 94.1’s website www.mix941.com
You’ve heard the song “Come On” by GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE on Mix 94.1
and now you have a chance to meet them as well!
Green River Ordinance will be in Canton on Thursday, February 18th for a private acoustic
concert for lucky Mix 94.1 listeners.
Mix 94.1 and Chipotle of Belden Village have arranged for this special performance provided for lucky listeners.
At 2:00pm the first 50 people will be granted access to the show, as well as receiving great specials from Chipotle.
Chipotle is located at:
5097 Dressler Rd NW
Canton, OH 44718
Dolson will be there as well to help promote the show, and we’ve heard rumors that the “special” is a 99 cent burrito. Come on out and hang with us and Green River Ordinance, and get yourself a $0.99 Chipotle Burrito.
Valentine’s Day is 2 days away, and you’re probably thinking. “Oh, no, not again. There’s just not enough time to get him / her the perfect gift.”
But before you resign yourself to sleeping in the doghouse, we’ve got the perfect solution for you. This Valentine’s Day get your loved one tickets to Dolson @ Musica with Green River Ordinance. There’s no better way to tell him / her that you love him / her.
(watch the video at this link if it doesn’t embed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRQ29roAAZw )
Presale tickets are available at Ticketmaster or avoid those nasty fees by ordering direct from us using Paypal.
