ericbettencourt's Blog

My album drops this saturday at The Big Easy (Jan 10th). I probably gave away 200 promotional copies and have been hearing some great things back from all kinds of people. I have been getting great feedback from the local press as well, as of today four reviews have been done on it. I guess all I'm asking is that if you have some time please give it a listen and check out the write-ups and my web page.

You can stream every song in its entirety off my website, just click the "Play All" button. http://eric-bettencourt.com/tunes/

If you dig please grab a copy at Bullmoose or itunes or Cd baby or at a show or from my website etc....

thanks for listening,
eric

ps- grab the new Cambiata album when it comes out, it is UNREAL!

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread on getting your new cd reviewed. Everyone sends it to the Phoenix, The Bollard, The Maine Switch and the Press Herald to take care of the local level but what are you doing beyond that? Seems like this would be a good place for everyone to leave their suggestions and web pages for doing this.

There is no reason not to think of your release on an international level with all the online reviews and Mp3 blogs that are happening all around the world. I'm asking because I'm about to venture into this side of the game and would love any leads but as I find some of my own I will be posting them for ya'all.

Here's an obvious one to some people I'm sure, but Noise, out of Boston does a ton of reviews a month. Send it here.

T Max/ The Noise
74 Jamaica Street
Jamaica Plain MA 02130
www.thenoise-boston.com/

I know bandzoogle has been mentioned at meeetings as a great, cheap place for making webpages but I just wanted to let everyone know about http://www.karmasites.com/home/

so far as I can tell it does what bandzoogle does and more for less money. unlike bandzoogle you can edit the stock photos that come in the pre made templates, including everything behind the text because its made using CSS. The user interface is a bit confusing at first because there is so much you can do with it but once you find your way around it goes pretty quick.

Its also will let you try it for 30 days and after that its 9.95 a month instead of $15

I made one for my band giraffe attack using it and my buddy Frank Hopkins also uses it. www.giraffeattack.com http://sweetdreamrecording.com/news/

I'm in the process of making two more as I speak.