Kelly Kintner - Blog

I love this service.

A while back, I came across a service online called GetMusic.fm. Since then, I have quit social media, thrown my phone in the garbage, but not lost very many listeners on Bandcamp at all. Considering I have started new projects and managed to find listeners without the usual hoopla, I wanted to give GetMusic.fm a proper love post. They are the reason.

I have people now.

The world is up its own ass all the time these days. It’s hard for the creative like myself who needs a clear head to think of characters and stories. It is very hard to get a clear head. I would buy it if I could. What I have found to be essential in my process of making music and writing is a head devoid of people unless I make them up. I didn’t get that for years. But once I took a social media break a couple of years ago, I never went back. I like the empty space in my head. There is room for me there. I do not think there is room for me in crowded social media. My brain just doesn’t function as well there. While I may need socials to get word out about my music, I do not need them at all in the process of making it. This is where GetMusic.fm comes in.

The dangers of doing self-promo and staying up all night on socials, 101.

I like people. I love to visit. But that isn’t social media. Social media is more like a race than a hangout. You are on a track. You may not know it, going so fast. But much like a theme park, your rides are on rails. Controlled. Planned. Behind the scenes. What really pisses me off is the information entered in social media isn’t used to find you potential buddies. It is used to cater more of what the computer thinks you want to you. This distorts reality… at least it did mine.

The escape from the madness.

But GetMusic.fm and ten dollars is a steal. (For the record, I have asked for a free credit on their site before, and they gladly handed me one. Now I can afford it. But that was nice.) All the codes that Bandcamp gives you, give them to GetMusic.fm; they find folks to download your music. The site is amazing with collections, highlights, catalogs, and spiffy tools to help folks find the kinds of music they like. There are even spotlights.

You mean I show up in searches? Who is credited for putting me there?

What I see now, today, as my reason for writing this, is GetMusic.fm does a whole lot more. Look what happens when I search the latest Djembe Funk tune on Google.

When I scroll here, I see a lot of work GetMusic does getting my song out to socials. I see Google notices that. Google notices their site where my music is at, and I am talked about sometimes. Nearly all the information Google is showing me they have on my new song comes from GetMusic.fm. To me, that’s above and beyond the call of duty.

How it works.

Here’s how it works: I make a song, I put the song on Bandcamp, then I fill out the GetMusic.fm form to add it there. Sometimes I don’t have the free Bandcamp codes, but at 3 bucks for a hundred of them, I can swing it. Then 10 bucks to Chuck over at GetMusic and I am in business. For 13 dollars, I now have better promo than I have ever gotten. No social media. No copy/paste. No forgetting who I am talking to. Just finishing my coffee.

To have presence and not have to work at it is priceless. That is what you get here. It may cost a small amount of money, sure. But it’s priceless.

I can see myself. Google says who posted information about me. It was GetMusic.fm.

I can verify with my own eyes and searches. GetMusic.fm is hot on the case. GetMusic.fm wants me to have a good time schlepping songs. They have a huge crowd that jumps on releases and even talks about them. I found that in searches too. They shared me on Threads and Insta. I haven’t had a log in to those places for years. To me, that’s GetMusic.fm doing the “dirty work.”

An easy decision if you are me.

This is a valuable service to anyone like me who likes spending more time offline making music than online pushing it. If you would like a nudge in your Bandcamp downloads, it’s an easy decision.

Basically the cost of a value meal.

Could I save the 13 dollars and get on socials and put myself in Google searches? Most likely. But I take the 13-dollar option every day of the week. Twice on Sunday. For comparison, the last time we ate at McDonald’s was 23 dollars. So for my portion of a 2-meal ticket at cheap fast food, I never have to log into social media for a release. That’s a good deal.

Kelly Kintner, Producer

Djembe Funk (GetMusic.fm link)

The Kintners (GetMusic.fm link)