eMusic is one of the biggest sellers of mp3s not associated with major labels, not to mention a great excuse to start a sentence without a capital letter. Anyway, they’ve added (oh, you know by now…):
http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Home-Guard-Forlorn-Hope-and-Glory-MP3-Download/11741544.html
So if you’re a member, Forlorn Hope and Glory can be yours for only ten credits. And even if you’ve already got it, a five-star rating or a brief review of the album would go an exceedingly long way indeed – nothing beats a genuine recommendation in our experience.
Twitter is one of those ships we haven’t yet climbed on board, but that doesn’t stop others from using it to promote our music:
http://twitter.com/LindaOfficial/status/6514234332
http://twitter.com/LindaOfficial/status/6513614634
Short and to the point, like all good publicity should be – and being described as the best anything since Queen is just about the highest praise anyone can give us from my personal point of view! (I’m a huge fan.)
Many thanks, Linda!
Forlorn Hope and Glory is now available to users of Lala:
http://www.lala.com/#album/2810527644410722290/The_Home_Guard/Forlorn_Hope_and_Glory
who we believe have just teamed up with Google to make music playable from search pages. Can anyone in the US confirm this? The deal doesn’t seem to stretch as far as the UK.
Meanwhile, our latest album has also been added to Rhapsody:
http://www.rhapsody.com/the-home-guard/forlorn-hope-and-glory
Quite why Year Zero has a greyed-out play button will be investigated.
This is all a major turnaround: barely a week after being told by CD Baby that their new system had “brought things to a standstill” and that many companies “ask that we wait until they are ready for us to send more albums to them”, they’re managing to do what should have been done three months ago. I think it’s clear that somebody behind the scenes flamingoed up (one for all you Red Dwarf devotees), but they didn’t want to admit it for some reason.
Oh well, we look forward to being added to more online distributors in the near future.
Gracious appreciation to our good friend Mike, who saw fit to embed our song Sweating Blood on his MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/493427991
On a related note, we musicians have different features available to us, but it appears that MySpace Music has just hit the UK’s personal profiles. With this in mind, Mike has set up a playlist of our songs, and we presume that these can be shared between friends. If anyone else wants to do the same, or perhaps include us in a compilation of your favourite unsigned artists, we’d be exceptionally grateful.
Just a very quick update to let you all know that we’ve overhauled our MySpace page and at last got round to uploading some of our new tracks:
http://www.myspace.com/thehomeguardinfo
At the same time, our admittedly underused iLike page has also finally been graced with Forlorn Hope and Glory’s presence:
http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Home+Guard
Which in turn means that you can get dedicating new songs on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Home-Guard/33098994258?v=app_5368451543
Above all else, though, we’d like to stress that from now on the one page we’re really keen to publicise is the new Bandcamp one:
http://thehomeguard.bandcamp.com
From here all are welcome to download our music for whatever price they’re willing to pay. And if you don’t want to pay, you can have it anyway – just please download it, and encourage your friends to do the same!