These days, the internet seems to be a great tool to get your music out there and be heard as a musician. The internet can be a wonderful thing and musicians seems to be obsessed with it more than anything (that includes me too). I’m just amazed at the large number of unsigned bands and artists in social networking sites that a lot of them are terrible at putting themselves out there. Not only that angry rants could destroy your music dreams, you can still destroy your career even if you’re a nice person.

When you want to put yourself out there, you must be careful with everything you do. The kind of photos you’re putting up there for the world to see. You must look at how you write to your fans. A lot of musicians have the worst writing skills I’ve ever seen. A lot of musicians like to be funny and humorous a lot with their fans. A lot of them like to write offensive and inappropriate jokes, some of them even using cuss words and swearing. You see a lot of, “Come to this show, bitches”, “We’re going to rock the fuck out”, “We’re going to get ourselves wasted, and have a blast”, etc. Okay, you get my point. A lot of bands seem to be putting that stuff up in their status’s, when they have a show coming up. In my opinion, this is just me, it’s a bad idea to write stuff like that. Why does it make you look foolish?

It’s because you’re adults. Maybe like around 30 or 40. When you have a show coming up that involves alcohol, they act like high school teenagers at a house party or something. This post isn’t aimed at any band in particular. I’m talking about, all of them. Bands really got to be careful how they put themselves out there. Every move they make. Everything they do online. Everywhere they go.  They have to be responsible and take everything seriously.

When you want to promote a project or show, you must be a professional about that too. Just focus on plugging in your project in a more appropriate manner and more people will be interested in it. You can be a nice person all you want to be, people are going to still get pissed at you about how you put yourself out there. Don’t spam people to death and don’t over do with plugging yourself way too much. That can also kill your career.

Use the internet responsible, don’t fall for scams and pay to play schemes that a lot of bands seems to be falling for. Be careful with entering for contests and be careful of accepting opportunities over the internet. All this stuff can kill your career, if you’re not careful.

Use the internet good, and you could have a good career on a positive note.

Kev