Victoriandustrial music is a mix of victorian music and industrial music. The term was created by Emilie Autumn; an American song writer, poet, and violinist who is best known for her wide range of musical styles and her usage of theatrics.
Monday, 1 February 2010
Mainstream Band: 30 Seconds to Mars Downloading
You can download the bands album of lots of differents sites. people will search ech of these websites to find the best price. downloading is the biggest asspect in the online age; it is the most popular way of gettin the music you want as it is cheaper and easier than buying a CD. Below are links to each website you can download the album and songs from
Itunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-is-war/id342009229
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-War/dp/B002XHN776/ref=dm_ap_alb11
people would most likely buy the songs/album from Amazon as they are a cheaper price than ITunes.
Itunes - Album - $9.99
- Songs - $1.29
Amazon - Album - $7.99
- Songs - $0.99
the songs cost more seperatly than buying the album so people will be more tempted to buy the album.
Itunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-is-war/id342009229
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-War/dp/B002XHN776/ref=dm_ap_alb11
people would most likely buy the songs/album from Amazon as they are a cheaper price than ITunes.
Itunes - Album - $9.99
- Songs - $1.29
Amazon - Album - $7.99
- Songs - $0.99
the songs cost more seperatly than buying the album so people will be more tempted to buy the album.
Mainstream Band: 30 Seconds to Mars Myspace
30 Seconds to Mars have their own official music Myspace page which helps to promote the band and their music.
once again the band uses this site to advertise their music, merchendise and news. the main use of a music myspace page is to listen to the latest music for free. on the bands page their is a box where you can listen to the music, download it and use it as a song for you own page. all of this helps to promote the songs, after listening to the songs the viewer may want to download the album and it is quikly done through a link that is their. this is apealing to the online age as its a lot quiker than going to a shop to buy it. 
like the bans official website there is a bar along the top with links to all different pages that the band owns.
another usefull asspect to a social network is that the bands fans can comment on the page and recive a reply from the band, this helps the band to connect with the fans so that they feel closer and will make them like the band more. Also being connected to all their fans gives the band an easy way to send emails to help viral marketing on things such as gigs and merchendise.
the site has links all over the page to promote their new album. these links send you to itunes one of the main online downloading program in the uk.
Monday, 25 January 2010
Mainstream Band: 30 Seconds to Mars Official Website
http://www.myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars
This image is a print-screen of 30 Seconds to mars' official webpage. this webpage is a perfect example of mainstream advertisement in the online age. the wesite has a range of links to help sell and advertise the band and its merchendise. At the top of the page are links to connect you to websites you can purchase the new album and songs from; these are the two most popular internet downloading websites, Amazon and Itunes. also there is a link the websites merchandise page.
http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-War/dp/B002XHN776/ref=dm_ap_alb11
http://30secondstomars.shop.musictoday.com/Dept.aspx?cp=366_24988
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-is-war/id342009229
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Tese links help to promote the bands merchendise and also Amazon and Itunes. these websites are the cheapest legal way to buy the albumn and songs and extramly easy to use which makes them more apealing than buying a CD from a store.
Below the links to advertise products of the band there is links to the bands social networks.
http://twitter.com/30Secondstomars
http://www.facebook.com/thirtysecondstomars
http://www.myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars
http://30secondstomars.buzznet.com/user/
http://www.youtube.com/30secondstomars
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30stm/
http://www.bebo.com/30SecondsToMars
http://digg.com/users/thisisthehive
social networking is extreemly important in the online age to help promote bands. Social networking helps to create a bond between the group and thier fans. on websites such as Myspace and Face book fans can send messages to the band and they will reply, this helps the bands image of caring for their fans. Also these websites can be used to post news about the bands especialy tourdates. Tours are becoming a lot more popular in the online age as CD's are makin less money because of cheap downloads so band have to find an alternative to making a profit. Also competitions are comonly advertised in social networks because fans enter through email which is free so more people will be willing to enter.
further down the webpage you can see quite a few links to news about the band. these help promote the band as it is different companies talking about the band so it raises its popularness with the public. It also helps fans keep up to date with what the band is doing.
below is a print screen of another news realated links. this is actulay where fans can sign up to the website so they can recieve news about the band by email. this a very cheap and effective way to advertise.
the site has some advertisements for their own merchendise that you can buy. the main one on the page would be this one below as it advertises a cheap deal which fans will be ionterested. the deal is that you can get the bands new album "this is war" and a merchendise tshirt for $14.99. the price is in dollars as the band is from america.
Monday, 18 January 2010
Mainstream band: 30 seconds to mars
30 Seconds to Mars are a mainstream rock band from America. They formed their band in 1998 when the online age was starting to become a big contributor to the music industry. The band lead vocalist is Jared Leto; a Hollywood actor who's fame promoted the band highly. Their original music label was virgin media but after their law suite in 2008 onwards they moved to one of the 'Big Four' labels EMI music publishing. The band has had a number of awards such as in November 2007, the band won the MTV Europe Music Award for "Rock Out". 30 Seconds to Mars are also highly involved with environmental and poverty groups such as Oxfam.
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