GARRISON’S BLOG

Hi and welcome to my Music Quench blog! I’m looking forward to the opportunity to converse with you about the latest developments in the music industry and to find out what you’re up to with your own music.

We created Music Quench as a new online home for indie artists where you can connect with our industry “experts” across a wide variety of topics of value to you in building your music career and taking it to the next level. Our experts are really cool folks with impressive achievements and most importantly a passion for sharing their own experiences, ideas and suggestions with the indie artist community.

We’ve also included with Music Quench our online Indiegredients directory of over 8,000+ listings (and growing) where you can access information about clubs, recording studios, record labels, producers, engineers, booking agents, managers, publishers, merchandisers… you name it.

The idea for Music Quench was born out of respect for the indie artist. There are websites offering indie artists access to A&R execs and possible placement of their songs in exchange for unreasonably high annual fees plus per song fees. Directories are being offered to indie artists for hefty prices with the lure that if you don’t have this you’re somehow missing out. We decided “enough is enough” and that it’s time to not look at indie artists as customers to hawk one’s wares to but rather as immensely creative talents looking to develop their music and getting it heard by the largest possible audience. To this end, we created Music Quench for YOU. Access via blog to our industry experts and the Indiegredients directory are FREE. All of us here at Music Quench spent many a night into the wee hours across many months researching information we knew would be of value to you. We did the data entry ourselves as well (anyone got a lead on a carpal tunnel support group?).

We at Music Quench are indies and value “sharing” above everything else. All of us in the indie music community share the common bond of our passion for music- composing, recording, performing and bringing it to the widest possible audience. What we know, what we’ve experienced, what we can share with each other are what the artistic life is about. There shouldn’t be a price tag on learning from each other and growing through each other’s shared experiences. Although we call ourselves “independent” and “indies,” community is the stage we have all committed to being on.

Music Quench was also triggered by our reaction to seeing indie artists and indie labels create a major music community site only to be downgraded to “widgets” consolidated into a statistical value base that led to a mega deal with the major music labels. This much-touted deal left the indie artist ungratefully and unceremoniously in the shadow of branded superstars with corporate endorsements. Music Quench will be unveiling its own music  platform on September 1st where you can create a profile, share your music and videos, build your fan base and much more…all in the spirit of true community…with no hidden agendas. Whatever we do at Music Quench is to help indie artists. That’s our culture. That’s why we’re here. That’s why we’re “indie.”

Garrison