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DISTRIBUTION
www.bdcdistribution.com
At Burnside Distribution Corp. (BDC), our passion for music and our fondness to help musicians and independent labels has grown into a full-fledged distribution company, with BDC selling to both regional and national one-stops and the entire music retail account base from mom & pops to the national chains. We are a full-service distribution company with a national presence.
Our company is committed to excellence. We have developed a submission policy that works quite well for us. Our three owners listen to every CD submitted to BDC and vote on them. When approved, we pick up new titles and labels and work our hardest to spread the joy of music to the consumer, through our retail outlets.
www.naildistribution.com
As one of the premier North American distributors of alternative independent music for over 15 years, NAIL distributes music of all stripes. Founded in 1995, we began with the humble goal of effectively placing independent music in Northwest stores. We quickly succeeded in our mission, surpassing expectations, and our initial family of labels has grown to nearly 200 exclusive labels and continues to expand.
www.futuresounds.com
Bringing you the Monthly Rumble Tour and bringing you multi-dimensional media services including PR, Radio PR, Management and Consultancy. Their managed clients include Longwave, Hurricane Bells, Earl Greyhound and Blue Giant, among others.
www.xopublicity.com
Where to start? We do PR. XO Publicity was established in 2003 with the intent to work with all genres of music. Our firm developed out of a desire to help indie and smaller labels compete in the press race. We offer lower rates and maximum flexibility to make our campaigns run smoothly. XO has a staff of 12 who work on projects as a team. The XO policy is to ensure the continued development of relationships with our artists, labels, writers and editors. Along with press we also offer radio campaigns. Our radio database consists of over 10,000 college, indie, webzines, blogs and mainstream contacts. Each project receives special consideration based on the style, special needs and wishes of the artists. XO embraces a grassroots approach to our service when contacting writers and editors via phone and mail. You never know what to expect when you see an XO in the return address of a package. We are determined to keep it that way!
FRIENDS
www.reverbrecords.net
Reverb Records is a fine independent record label that treads
the musical territory of psychedelic pop, shoegazer, electronica and
just good independent alternative indie sounds. It just so happens
that the label is owned by Cravedogger Michael Fitzgerald. The label
was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1999, but recently relocated it's
HQ to the very cool environs of Portland, Oregon.
The label's roster is made up of up and coming artists such as The High Violets, The Upsidedown, Lab Partners, Drakes Hotel, Nina Hynes and recently released an EP from electronic artist BASIC, which featured David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets fame on vocals.
Always on the lookout for new sounds, Reverb keeps its ears to the ground and ears to the internet for anything interesting and even sites Myspace as a good source for finding new artists.
www.myspace.com/permapressrecording
In 1997, Pat Kearns opened a small, 16-track recording studio in Portland named Studio 13, recorded tons of punk/garage bands as well as singer/songwriters. In the fall of 2006, he expanded operations by opening The Color Lab in Portland, OR. After 6 months, the Lab had run its course and Pat moved operations to SE Portland and named the new studio PermaPress Recording. A short list of Pat's credits include releases by:
Lovvers, The Exploding Hearts, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, Pat mAcDonald (Timbuck 3), The Soda Pop Kids, The Nice Boys, The Clorox Girls, The Observers, Defiance, The Revisions, The Red Dons, The Goddamn Gentlemen, The Spider Babies, The Jolenes, Autistic Youth, The Neat, Absolute Rulers, and his own band; Blue Skies For Black Hearts.
PermaPress Recording's goal is to provide professional recording at reasonable rates for both official releases as well as demos. Freelance engineers are welcome. Owner producer/engineer Pat Kearns is often requested to provide musical arrangements, novel percussion, harmony arrangements, and even his own voice to projects that he is producing. His recording heroes are Sir George Martin, Phil Spector, Nick Lowe, Jeff Barry, Joey Levine, and Geoff Emerick. Mr. Kearns has also toured as a live-sound engineer for John Vanderslice, Spoon, and Death Cab for Cutie.
www.8ballstudio.com
8 Ball Studio is about vibe. Ya sure, we have all the gear you need from pro-tools HD to Nuemann Mics to API pre's and Distressors - but the focus at 8 Ball is fostering a relaxed and creative environment where you can capture your vision for your music. It is also to keep prices reasonable so you can spend more time focusing on you music and less time worrying about the clock. Groovy.
8 Ball Studio clients include: Scott Fisher, Rachel Taylor Brown, Andrew Calhoun, Sidestar, The Imprints, Mission 5, The Sort Of's, Scotland Barr and the Show Drags
and more. 8 Ball is also the recording studio for the Loud Lounge (www.theloudlounge.com) doing commercial recordings for clients such as PGE, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Oregon State Fair, and The Hawthorne District.
Whatever your recording needs are - you can bring them to 8 Ball and record w/time and vibe on your side.
www.inthecanllc.com
In The Can Productions is a production, post-production, and digital media company dedicated to providing creative, efficient and effective media services, from start to finish or to fill in the blanks of your media needs.
We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon but we're road warriors at heart who can provide all of our services in the field. In our office, or at your office.
Underlying our services and guiding our work is our shared philosophy that every story, no matter how big or small, deserves to be told in a compelling and original manner.
In The Can Productions works with a committed team of industry professionals and we can manage everything from a small personal project to a full scale film shoot depending on the client's needs. Like we say not job is too small if your message is important.
www.starfishstudios.com
Starfish Studios is a musical oasis in Southeast Portland where people of all ages and musical interests come to share their love of music while developing new skills. We have a great team of inspiring music teachers, several large teaching rooms filled with great instruments and equipment, a state-of-the-art recording studio, and a comfortable lobby for mingling between lessons.
The Planetary Group is an artist development firm that specializes in publicity and radio promotion. Planetary will tailor a campaign, based around an artist's goals, that targets the most appropriate outlets for a release. Headquartered in Boston with satellite offices in Manhattan and LA, Planetary has its finger on the pulse of the current music scene.
Over the past nine years Planetary has worked with a variety of musicians from all genres, signed and unsigned, self-released, indie and major labels. Planetary can help to create a solid foundation for new artists, and take all artists to new levels. You can see a list of our clients in the radio and publicity sections of their website. T he Planetary Group will put your band on the radar.
Planetary Group is proud to have Cravedog CD & DVD Manufacturing as a sponsor for it's bi-annual International Tour series, which sends bands on tours of China and Scandinavia every year. Sign up for this years' competition here: www.planetarygroup.com
RESOURCE GUIDES
www.tapeop.com
Music Resource Group supports professionals in all areas of the music business. Our growing network includes people involved in songwriting, performing, recording, producing, promoting, managing, marketing and selling music.
In addition to established programs like the best-selling music industry resource, The Musician's Atlas and the Independent Music Awards, we now offer more opportunities to successfully create and sell music independently.
The atlasOnline and our new Mailing Labels program make marketing and promotional efforts easier and more effective.
www.harryfox.com
HFA is the foremost mechanical licensing, collection, and distribution agency for music publishers in the U.S. Our processes, culture, and technology are client-driven and results-oriented. We continually strive to add value and strength to the music rights industry.
www.mastanmusic.com
A cool Multimedia and Audio/Video Studio run by Jeremy Wilson and Sam
Densmore here in Portland. Mastan Music is an excellent Music Resource and
they have an awesome Podcast as well that features incredible music and
bands from all over the world. So do yourself a favor and check these
wonderful folks out.
MASTERING
www.stereopho.com
Stereophonic Mastering located in Portland Oregon offers custom digital and analog CD mastering. We also offer eMastering to musicians from around the world. Chief engineer Timothy Stollenwerk has mastered a wide range musicians and artists including: Evolutionary Jass band, YACHT, Mirah, Old Time Relijun, The High Violets, Karl Blau, White Rainbow, Daniel Menche, The Watery Graves, Michael Hurley, Ghost to Falco, Drummatica -- and many more. Curious? Check out our free mastering trial.
www.toneproper.com
There's no question about it: high-quality Audio mastering is essential. It's what makes for a sonic final result that is truly compelling, and embodies the qualities the ear craves: clarity, detail, presence, cohesion, and heft. It's what allows a good recording to sound genuinely great - the kind of recording that fully involves the listener. And it's what allows the vision of the music-maker to be fully realized.
At Tone Proper we're dedicated to helping you realize your creative audio vision, and to make the aspirations of your audio project a reality.
Designed with the growing needs of the emerging Northwest music scene (and beyond!) in mind, Tone Proper aims to focus not only on the technical demands of high-quality audio, but also the client. Regardless of whether your project is the result of a well-appointed professional facility or an ambitious project studio, our experienced and friendly staff is passionate about audio, and is prepared to work with you to reach your goals.
WEB DESIGN AND GRAPHIC SERVICES
www.sightworks.com
SightWorks is a full service web development and applications agency established in 1997. We specialize in cutting-edge web design, robust custom applications, and secure, professional hosting. We attract technical and design talent from all over the world, giving us unparalleled expertise in graphic design, information design, system architecture, database programming, entertainment, interactive media, software, and general consulting. This synthesis of personalities in our Portland, Oregon location is not just a wellspring of talent: It enables us to conceive and build any type of media solution that is necessary.
We've done it all from the arts and entertainment web sites that breathe life into the Internet to the mission-critical applications that businesses rely on.
www.tinylittlehammers.com
Tiny Little Hammers is a full service graphic design company providing very creative, forward thinking and adventurous web design, CD and DVD package design, poster design, logo design, brochure design and pretty much anything you can dream up. The Cravedog website is currently being maintained by this fine company. They have also created an extremely long list of very happy clients, including, record labels, bands, artists, music venues, arts and music festivals, small and large businesses and the list goes on.
E-ZINES
www.inmusicwetrust.com
In Music We Trust started out in July of 1997 as a vehicle in which to help expose talented artists to a larger audience.
Well, here we are four years later, a record label, a national PR company, and an e-zine. With the publicity company in full swing, and the ability to scrap together every penny I could find, I decided to start a record label. Thus, the label side of In Music We Trust was born. The point of this is, In Music We Trust started out four years ago as a zine that Ryan O'Neill and I did to cover great music and let others know of these bands we were blown away by. It has now grown into a PR company and a label, all out of the love of music.
