Great news for Irish Music Scene as new label is announced for 2014

We just heard that music industry guru Linda Coogan Byrne who sits at the helm of one of Ireland's most successful Music PR & Marketing companies - Good Seed PR- has announced that she will be launching a Record Label in 2014. 

Coogan Byrne said she got into working in the industry to "break new Irish acts, and will follow through on that by launching the record label early next year". Already the 29 year old has established one of the leading PR companys in the country and started out in a box room of her Mothers house when she was 22 from the top of a bunk bed! Since then she has worked with Irish household names to Worldwide mega bands and acts such as Marilyn Manson, REM, Duran Duran, Ron Sexsmith, Suzanne Vega, Dropkick Murphys, The Saw Doctors, The Dubliners, Imelda May, Lisa Hannigan, Nina Hynes, Madness, Friends of Emmet, Dire Straits, Frank & Walters, Eleanor McEvoy, Groove Armada, Underworld, Cyndi Lauper, Heavens Basement, The Cult, Amanda Palmer, City & Colour... the list goes on...and on. 

Bands and Artists can send demos starting now - HERE. We have always supported GSPR with their new music and hearing this rather epic news, we feel that things are looking up in the Irish Music Scene! 

Amanda Palmer Gets Standing Ovation for TED Talk At TED2013

Amanda Palmer Gets

Standing Ovation for TED Talk

At TED2013

Compares Crowd-Funding to Crowd-Surfing

“When You Connect With People, They Want to Help You...

Maybe instead of asking ourselves how we can make people pay for music, we should ask ourselves how to LET them.”

Watch Amanda’s TED Talk, “The Art of Asking”, HERE.

Amanda Palmer has made an art out of crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding, making headlines last year for raising $1.2 million on Kickstarter to fund her latest album. Amanda says they are simply the modern day versions of the street-performing she did to support herself for many years as the 8ft Bride, and the couch-surfing she’s done throughout her years of touring.

“Couch-surfing and crowd-surfing are essentially the same thing. You’re falling into the audience, and asking your fans to catch you,” she notes. “So when it came time to put out my new album, I turned to crowd-funding, and I ‘fell’ into those thousands of connections I’d made and I asked my crowd to catch me.”

Moreover, she believes that the meaningful human relationships that develop from these acts --and the vulnerability they require – are as old as art itself. “For most of human history musicians and artists have been part of the community – connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. Celebrity is about a lot of people loving you from a distance. But the internet and the content we’re able to share on it is taking us back, and it’s about a few people loving you up close, and those people being enough.”

Lastly, she feels that the lessons she learned as a street performer might just solve the music biz’s current dilemma around trying to get people to pay for music: “Maybe instead of asking ourselves how we can make people pay for music, we should ask ourselves how to LET them.”

Read more about Amanda’s TED experience and the reaction to her TED Talk in Long Beach this week HERE on the TED blog.

Amanda’s self-released album, Theatre Is Evil, debut in the Billboard Top 10 last September, and is available for a “pay-what-you-want” price (including free) in her web store HERE.

"…one of the year’s best rock records…" – Rolling Stone

"… exactly the kind of record that makes people love music in the first place" – SPIN

“Theatre of Evil is genius, savvy pop” – NPR

"She juggles bravado and compassion... " – The New York Times

Monkeeman

There is no monkeying around with this stellar new EP from Monkeeman. For those of you with an affinity towards The Smiths and Sex Pistols, Monkeeman's EP 'Pressure' will appeal to the MOD in you. Check it out below:

Heavens Basement

Red Bull Records are currently reigning rather majestically on the epic awesomeness of AWOLNATION and their more than relative success on the label. Needless to say we can see who will be following their footsteps; Heavens Basement. With their electrifying rock bass driven guitar laden contagious as fuck soaring chorus in every song on this album, Filthy Empire is about as awesome as a debut album from an aspiring rock band can get.

The albums visceral rawness is what stands to this band as it captures the essence of true rock n roll is, which is the ability to just rock out with great musicianship equipped with an effortless front man. Its no wonder They already have song placements in hit Computer game Need For Speed.

Tracks to check out: Fire Fire & Nothing left to loose.