Concrete Prophet

Web & Street Teams

Calling all die-hard Concrete Prophet fans!

We are looking for dedicated Street Team and Web Team members to promote our music throughout the world! As an independent act we rely on YOU for our success, and we would like the opportunity to show our gratitude for your efforts.

Members of the Concrete Prophet Street Team will help spread the word about us, and in return, earn some free swag. If you would like to contribute your efforts towards our cause, please read about our teams below to see which team best suits you. Then, fill in the fields at the bottom of this page to sign up.

The Web Team - For All Fans

Are you a web savvy individual? Do you like to chat in message boards, write blogs and chat over email? Members of the Concrete Prophet Web Team will help us by posting positive comments about us in the following fashion.

First, download this form to track your progress.

Web Team Progress Document

Once this document is complete, you can send it to us for review. In the document, you will track your progress on the following activities...

1) Start three threads on different forums. Follow-up with replies if appropriate. Note the URLs in your progress document. You can use this banner in your signature if you would like.

2) Write a review of our music and post it in your blog. In your blog, please link to www.concreteprophet.com. Note the URL of your blog in your progress document.

3) E-mail five friends about us. Copy and paste your E-mail correspondence (including header information) into your progress document.

4) Sign up two friends to our monthly newsletter. Note the two E-mail addresses in your progress document.

If everything looks good then we will send you some free stuff as promised!

- Concrete Prophet T-Shirt
- Free admission to any one CP a show
- DVD with "Meet Concrete Prophet" & Mona Lisa music video
- Concrete Prophet Sticker
- Concrete Prophet 2007 Poster (signed)
- Your name and photograph on our website

The Street Team - For Local Fans only

We need boots on the ground to get the message out! Street team members will promote shows by handing out flyers and bringing new people to our upcoming shows.

All it takes...

1) Pass out flyers around town and at your school
2) Text message your friends about upcoming shows
3) Bring two new friends to see Concrete Prophet

And you will receive...

Listener Support

A new age is dawning in the music industry and it is both a scary and exciting time to be an artist. No one really knows what the future holds, but one thing is certain: the attention and direct support of fans matters more now than it ever has before. Between CD Baby, iTunes, MySpace and Facebook, it's easy to be overwhelmed with music. We are truly honored for all the time and attention you, our fans, have given us.

We are very proud of the music we write. What is most exciting is that the majority of material we have written has yet to be released. So for all the fans who are not able to attend a live performance (international fans), there is a lot of Concrete Prophet music written that we can not get to you just yet.

Our plan is to enter the studio towards the end of this year with the goal of recording a full-length album to be released in 2009. Concrete Prophet is currently 100% independent of any outside agency which means we live and die by our fans.

Clicking the button below and making a donation is the most direct way to show your support and help us share this music with you. As a "Thank You" for your contribution, you'll receive:

- A "thank you" spoken aloud on our next studio recording
- Your name and photograph on our website
- a free song download from the next release

We're excited to march forward in the coming months to create something of which we will all be proud.

Best Wishes,

Concrete Prophet

Afterword by Brian Dobbs

We have thought a lot about what it means to achieve success, and the ramifications that "success" would have on us as a group, our friends, and fans. There was a time when it was clear that "success" was marked by record company representation. And certainly for some, it still is. But we wonder, is that right for us?

Writing, recording and performing music is our passion, but in these modern times the "music industry" as we traditionally have known it is a completely different animal.

Take this as an example. In an email to CD Baby members, owner Derek Sivers said, "As of the last few years, now 90% of your career is up to you. YOU have to make a great recording, a great show, a great image. YOU have to make things happen on your own."

So we think there appears to be a misconception as to what benefits record companies offer for unsigned artists. We recognize their ability to provide exposure beyond what any unsigned artist can normally achieve for themselves, but at what cost? The money spent by record companies on producing, distributing, and marketing their artists is all recoupable from future album sales. Even artist advances are recoupable, with interest!

Sivers added later in his email, "If you need more money, get it from anyone except a record company." In other words, artists should be in control of how their money is spent, not record companies.

And you know what? Accomplished musicians seem to agree. In May 2008 Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater said, "A lot of bands immediately want to get in bed with a record label and sign away their lives. At this point in 2008 you couldn't make a bigger mistake."

Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails adds, "If you do put out a record on a label, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens before it comes out. There’s no real way around that. How long before [record companies] are irrelevant? They seem to be doing everything they can to make sure that happens as quickly as possible."

That brings us to you, the fans. We know you want more music from us, and we have a ton of it to share! It just comes down to support. We simply seek the ability to sustain a career making music for you!