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Fizzkicks.com is a leader in music download cards for indie artists. We have features that are simply unmatched from any other service out there. Even the big guys want to be like us. But as you know, we don't care what they do, because we are in the trenches with you - the indie artist. We don't boast about being "Big Time" with the record labels - because we aren't. We are all about the small indie artist trying to make it and generate a profit. For those that don't know us yet, we are the first to offer Music Card Design Labs, Full interactive Widgets, and ability to sell media online. We go beyond music download cards, because artist need more to run a full operating business. We do what we are good at. That is technology, card printing, and delivering customer satisfaction. NO MATTER how large or small you are, Fizzkicks treats you like your our only customer.
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CARDS
Whether you call them music download cards, music cards or simply digital download cards, Fizzkicks.com has some pretty neat tools for any artist to create their front and back card designs. Artists can do this online with our new online Design Lab feature. Artists can make cards worth a set number of downloads or make them for a specific song(s), album(s) and/or video. Best of all artists can bundle all types of media to be delivered to their fans with their digital download cards. Add pictures, liner notes, show dates and more. What ever you want to provide to your fan... you can do it exclusively with our Online Design Lab. And, yeah.... you don't have to call us to put a video on it. Just do it!
FIZZKICKS LAUNCHES FULL DIGITAL ALBUM CARDS FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
Exclusive online Design Lab by Fizzkicks allows artists to create full album download cards directly online. "Artists can now enable their fans to download full-length albums with special bonus content such as videos, bonus tracks, images and more directly from their own myspace page or personal website!" announces Aaron Burton of Fizzkicks.com. "The introduction of media specific cards is an important step toward empowering independent artists to cost effectively deliver specific high quality MP3 files and video files to their fans". The cards themselves can be custom designed on the front and the back with artist images and album information.December 8th -Fall Back Plan Is On MTV2's Spankin New Music Week!!! Don't Miss It! www.fizzkicks.com/fallbackplan
Here are some of the air times: Eastern Standard Time-838a,925a, 958a, 1102a, 104p, 440p, 459p, 612p, 646p, 824p, 846p, 1005p Look out for "Sucka Punch" on Fuse TV, Music Choice, MTVU and more!!The Holiday Season is Coming... Get your FizzKicks Digital Download Cards.
The holiday season is around the corner. Digital Download Cards make a perfect inexpensive stocking stuffer! Custom create your own music cards at FizzKicks.com. If you want us to designing your cards, just contact us and we will hook you up. Distribute your music, full length albums, videos, liner notes, images, and pdfs with your own music download cards. It is fun to use our online digital download card builder.
WILCO, BRIGHT EYES, AIMEE MANN & MORE “ROCK THE NET” ON COMPILATION MUSIC DOWNLOAD CARD and CD FOR NET NEUTRALITY
Thirsty Ear Records (thirstyear.com) and FutureofMusic.org has recently released Rock the Net: Musicians for Network Neutrality (www.thirstyear.com). It is a compilation available on CD and a FizzKicks Music Download Card featuring tracks by musicians who support a free and open internet (www.futureofmusic.org).
Contributing songs on the compilation include: Wilco, Bright Eyes, They Might Be Giants, Portastatic, Aimee Mann, Guster, Matthew Shipp, Palomar, The Wrens, DJ Spooky, BC Camplight, David Bazan, David Miller, Free Form Funky Freqs and The Calssic Brown. They have all donated a track to the compilation.
SUPPORT NET NEUTRALITYBUY DIGITAL DOWNLOAD COMPILATION
Net Neutrality is the principle that preserves an open Internet. It’s all about choice, freedom of expression and access to legal content. It’s also how many of us discover new music. But if big telecommunications and cable companies have their way, you may only be able to hear what they want you to hear.
Save Money... Distribute Your Downloads Anywhere.
How It Works: Using our online music service, Fizzkicks members can create their own music download cards to sell or give away to their fans. Each card has its own unique access code, which allows fans to download material such as videos, single songs, full albums or even lyrics from your own media player or own site.
PURCHASE RHYTHM DEVILS' CONCERT EXPERIENCE
StarCity Recording Company recently completed work on a 2-DVD set of the Rhythm Devils. The band consists of Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann; Phish member Mike Gordon; and renowned musicians Steve Kimock, Sikiru Adepoju and Jen Durkin. A true multi-media experience, disc one features the Rhythm Devils in concert during their recent multi-city US tour. The live footage is the base for extensive graphic design and video footage that combine to create a unique video vignette for each of the eight songs. Disc two includes behind-the-scenes footage of band member comments from the tour and of the band rehearsing.
AVAILABLE NOW AT WWW.STARCITYRECORDING.COM
New York City indie rock band Lights Resolve brought their FizzKicks.com Music Cards to promote their latest 3 singles, The Hills & Michael Jackson, Lost & Jade, and This Could Be the Last Time this spring on the Get A Life Tour. The Get A Life Tour also included The Used, Straylight Run, Army of Me, and Street Drum Corp.
Dallas, TX May 7, 2008 -- In its seventeenth year, Edgefest is KDGE Dallas’ alternative rock concert that attracts over twenty five thousand concert goers to a day of fun, food, and of course…live music. With over 30 bands performing on 3 stages Edgefest is a once a year chance to hear and see some of the best and most popular artists The Edge religiously spins on the air. The 2008 edition featured performances by Fancorps.com artists 3 Doors Down, Blue October, 10 Years, Red, and Fair To Midland as well as many other nationally known bands like Seether, My Chemical Romance, and Puddle Of Mudd
Busy running from gig to gig? Fizzkicks.com can now print & ship custom designed "Ready 2 Go" plastic music cards to you. All printing is done in-house directly on 30 mil glossy plastic cards to ensure the highest quality. Order as little as 50 cards or as many as you need! Sign up on the ProPlan and get up to 25% off on your music card orders plus sell your music online. We even offer the ability for your to run the redeemption process from your own site. Plus... you can sell your songs directly online too! From designing to printing, Fizzkicks.com can handle it. Sign up for Free - then place your order for your music cards online. If you like designing & printing your music cards at home.. that's cool too. Either way, Fizzkicks.com makes getting professional music cards easy.
During the last few months, the team at Fizzkicks.com has been working hard at improving our site. The day finally has arrived with our newly designed website. We have more features coming soon so stay tuned.
We recently took a trip out to see a few of the bands on Fizzkicks.com perform live. Our first stop was in Nashville, TN where we saw Tyrone Vaughan and his band blow away the crowd with his music. Man...what a show! We can't forget the amazing rock show put on each night by Spit Fifty during the Warped Tour of '06!
Hi Everyone, Follow me on Twitter for music download card designing tips, music news, and stuff that is on my mind at the time. As always, thank you very much for being part of Fizzkicks.com - Aaron Burton, Fizzkicks.com