As a one man operation, Rawk & Rowl can unfortunately no longer exist. The blogs on this site have hopefully been a help to some people out there. Thanks for reading for the past year. The plan now is to continue to blog through the end of 2009 and then to keep the site up until the domain expires in October, 2010.

Thanks everyone!

Until November 30th, all clothing at Smartpunk.com is 25% off! The discount will appear in the shopping cart during checkout. Some autographed bundles, which include a t-shirt and signed CD, are part of the sale.

If you have a Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, and more, and you are tired of logging in to each one separately to post, Ping.fm might be for you.

Here is a great roundtable discussion that took place on NPR! The topic of the discussion was “The Role of the Record Label” and features a roundtable of executives from popular indie labels like Matador.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2009/11/roundtable_discussion_the_role_1.html

Amber Pacific have announced that they have signed to Victory Records.

Vic Firth has a super useful page with audio and video of all 40 Essential Rudiments of the Percussive Arts Society. Drummers: bookmark this one!

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments.html

Check out this interesting article including interviews with bands as diverse as Hawk Nelson and Steel Train.

Social Media and Music PR: The State of Play as Told by Artists and Publicists

Right now the “You Gotta Believe” EP by The Rocket Summer is burning up the charts. The “You Gotta Believe” EP was released October 26, 2009 on Island Records. Buy it at .

Not only an entertaining, insightful read but also packing some serious science.

http://www.endino.com/archive/tuningnightmares.html