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Sparrow Records

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A label for all genres of music. We specialize in finding new talent on the rise. So if you're looking for a label to show your talents to the world, come to Sparrow Records.
Genre: All genres

Label Roster
Band	Genre	Manager	Contract (Remaining)
Alabaster Bible Church	Hardcore Punk	Danny Wilson	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)
Barlow Girl	Pop	Will Brown
Casting Crowns	Soft Rock	Will Brown	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)
Matthew West	Pop	Will Brown	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)
Relient K	Punk	Will Brown	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)
The Last Polka	Soft Rock	Tom Cotton	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)
The O.C. Supertones	Ska	Will Brown	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)
tobyMac	Hip-Hop	Will Brown	Albums: 0 (0 remaining) Singles: 1 (1 remaining)

We are currently ranked #7 in the record label rankings. Sparrow has 7 bands under contract as well as a few bands who we have pending contract offers out to. Check back later for more as Sparrow Records and our bands work their way to the top!

I'd like for my band, the Turd Burglars, to get a contract with your label.

Have the Turd Burglars formed yet? Because I couldn't find them.

I wasn't being serious... sorry... I don't have the game, and I rarely play online games...

It's a web browser based game if you ever decide you're interested. The link is in the 1st post.

I have clicked the apply to join part, is this only for Christian Music cause thats what it is now and also I will be a Christian band also, My band name is Living for the Rock

Yeah, that's where I got Sparrow Records from:) My bands are Christian as I'm sure you can tell, but I opened up the label to all bands for now.

My first band I got to reject:


Joy Of Masturbation

Wow I just got that now with the rose in the pic, What verse is that again? I spoke about it at my dads funeral how we shouldnt worry because of how much more we mean than the sparrows yet they dont worry about food.

one more thing how do I accept the contract offer? never mind I got it.

I can't remember exactly either. It may be Matthew 10:29 or 31, but I don't think so. And I can't take credit for the wonderful photo, I googled it up.

I have a question I want to release a single but money is short, how do I either get more money, or is 1 day in the studio enough to make a single?

I don't have a way to transfer money at the moment unfortunately. And even if I could, there's only about $500 in the label account at the moment. If you only havev enough money to record for a day, I would recommend you tour for 1-3 months nonstop before you release, or you won't even cover the costs of your cd as you only get $2 for each copy sold.

My band (Alabaster Bible Church) is currently touring and practicing their songs, waiting to fine tune them for the single.

Be advised.

Aight Ill try and tour for a few more days and then release...Sparrow will be at the top one of these days.

Not that means much at the time being,lol.

I'll try to get a profile of all the bands under contract tomorrow.

Noted.

haha. it's gonna get to that point

I'll now start the band profiles:


Alabaster Bible Church

ABC is a Hardcore Punk band that hails from Boston. They are on the ground-level as far as groupies and popularity go, but the talent in ABC is something that most bands envy. They also seem to have won over the hearts and minds of many women with their looks. However, with the women that Hardcore Punk attracts, that may not be a good thing necessarily. ABC seems to be a dedicated band that has a lot of upside and Sparrow Records expects them to go gold, if not platinum in the future.

We had 1 release a month ago, two this month, and one next month:

Best Selling Albums Last Month
Band	Type	Release Name	Release Date	Sales Last Month
Casting Crowns	Single	Who Am I	2005-11-01	7,000
The PinkZappa's	Single	Flowers Of Gain	2005-11-01	4,000
Bandacoot	Single	Genocide	2005-10-01	1,250
Kleft	Single	Opening Act		0

Our funds now appear as:

Update General Label Information
Record Label Name:	Sparrow Records
Funds:	Free to spend: $1,498 Tied up in record contracts: $780

Also, the 38 Critic Rating is the 3rd highest given in MM so far. But of course, Sparrow lost ground in the label ratings(however they work).

Stop, you're making us blush!

And to note: ABC does tour relentlessly, and every show garuntees some blood loss.

We added another FOFCer who seems to be doing very good. Intoducing.....


Kleft

Hometown: Iowa City, IA Genre: West Coast Rap Popularity: 20 Stage Presence: 3 Cohesion: 33 Groupies: 72 Manager: AJ Tucker Band Leader: AJ Tucker (Vocals) Record Label: Sparrow Records

Short One Crouton quickly sold out a second pressing of their independently released "Get 'Er Done" single and is now spending time practicing for it's upcoming Sparrow Records released which has yet to be named.

Lenaing on the rock will be releasing in a few months we will probably have 4 songs so we may release 2 different singles and we would like to do so with both under th sparrow label as we see them having alot of upside and like the community in genral. Two months ago we spent the whole month practicing alone, at our homes.( I accidentally had them rest 30 days with it set on practice at home). I feel this practice has made us the most talented band in the nation even though we are bored and looking for aliitle more joy in our work.

Band Profile:


Bandacoot
Bandacoot is a Hard Rock band from Memphis, TN. They have already released a single entitled, "Genocide". Genocide has sold a humble 1,250 copies so far, but it's a good start regardless. They are currently ranked 12th in both popularity and number of groupies in the Hard Rock ccategory. One thing that Bandacoot needs is a little happiness. There have been reports that if things don't straighten up, guitarist Emmett Varela might leave the band.

Ya like that? it was an accident but maybe we can profit from it. Also on another note I have been getting only 15 dollars a show, and maybe I will be able to increase that but I dunno why Im not getting more. on the upside Ill be touring 28 days this month and that should bring in some more money.

Wow, yeah, they're pretty talented now:)

If you tour long enough, you'll start to really roll in the dough. For instance, I have a few bands who get $10,000+ a show now.

Wow...then I could actually release CD...how is relient k doing? Casting Crowns is also awesome I se ethat you released a CD with them now huh?

Relient K seems like they have the most potential of all my bands. With Casting Crowns, I sold out of the initial 7000 copies, so I went and ordered 50,000 more. No telling how many actually sell.

I'd like to figure out how to increase a band members popularity, because my popularity is 0. :(

I got the looks but I'm not popular!

You need to do some touring to get popularity up. 28 day touring is best. Or when you rest, try Hanging with groupies or seeing friends bands play.

Contract offer sent your way.

Office Pimps, the Gothic Metal band of Chicago, has officially formed!

Band leader / bass player Rob Nielsen says he's the best damn bass player ever.

We know talent when we see it. We haven't seen it yet, but we're hoping to;)

We're signed!

We've never practiced together...yet. But we're signed!

Didn't realize it until now, but welcome to The Blues Men, owned by Doug5984. Didn't realize that was you Doug, welcome to Sparrow!

Just don't look directly at me. I'm ugly as sin. :)

Soft Rock emerged in the early '70s, partially as a reaction to the extreme sounds of the late '60s. Soft rock was commercial and inoffensive, taking the sound of singer/songwriter and pop/rock but smoothing out all the edges. Bands like Bread, the Carpenters, and Chicago relied on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Throughout the '70s, soft rock dominated the airwaves and it eventually metamorphosed into the synthesized sounds of adult contemporary in the '80s.
In the Music Maven community, Casting Crowns is commonly regarded as one of the top Soft Rock bands.



woot!

Nice I think once we get some more releases this can really be on of the best labels...

I've tried all that. I guess I will keep trying, we just did a 28 day tour made some major cash and are doing some intensive practicing so we can get some better songs going.

Just created a band.

Turd Burglars.

Techno, baby.

Dola...

My character is a woman. Amusing, but not something I want to live with. Can this be changed?

I guess if you try auditioning you can change it. But there's no easy way to change it. I believe it's a bug. Offer sent your way.

I accepted the offer.

If I audition a new guy, won't that erase me? I don't get it.

go me!

I think I may have released my single too early... but we'll see.

My band has pictures now. Until I get my gender changed, I've used a photo of a woman.

Cool, vex. Didn't know you were making a dynasty on this. :)

SI

Yeah, I guess it would. You can give nicknames though.

We're just trying to be FOFC's 1-2 punch:)

Is anyone in FOFC The Diddley Daddies, Royal Knights, or Koda? Sparrow Records is down to 2 slots left with a pending offer out to GoldenEagle already so I don't want to leave anyone out.

I am going to accept as soon as it comes back up.

Alabaster Bible Church is practicing all old material for 15 days, followed by 2 days of rest, then another two week tour.

We keep on rollin baby

Office Pimps is spending a day playing in Chicago, hardcore practice for 21 days, and then we rest.

'Course, we technically only have 2 instruments, so I just play the bass, my keyboardist hits a few notes, our vocalist screams, and our drummer and guitarist...stand there and play with the smoke machine. :)

Watch out on that hardcore practice, Leaning on the Rock had some problems when we did alot of that.

Well, I didn't go full on death practice. Just a 7.

Red Star Elite is doing about the same. We are getting 22 days of practice in and then eight days of rest. We are playing a debut show in New York City. By the way, what time is the sim run?

I'm Royal Knights.

Coming soon, Office Pimps will be out on the road, unveiling their first original song, Shock and Awe!

Green Door	Oklahoma City, OK	2006-01-01
The Cactus Club	Milwaukee, WI	2006-01-02
The Bone	Dallas, TX	2006-01-03
Jazzhaus	Lawrence, KS	2006-01-04
The Music Box	Omaha, NE	2006-01-05
Golden Light Cantina	Amarillo, TX	2006-01-06
The Lucky Lounge	Austin, TX	2006-01-07
Moes Tavern	Springfield, IL	2006-01-08
The Toledo Dive	Toledo, OH	2006-01-09
The Rustbelt Dive	Youngstown, OH	2006-01-10

Playing a local dive, I see. Better than having the Grenada, tho.

SI

Hey. ONE of our spots charges 15 bucks instead of 5.

Unfortunately it's in fucking Omaha.

Ooh. The happy feeling in ABC is gone. Time to take half a month off to rest up and then practice our old songs until they're finally ready for the single.

Chalk Outline coming to a radio near you

Offer Sent.

Casting Crowns was #1 in singles sold last month and all-time!


Highest Selling Singles (Last Month)

Rank	Band	Single	# of Sales
1	Casting Crowns	Who Am I	23,046

All-Time Single Sales

Rank	Band	Single	# of Sales
1	Casting Crowns	Who Am I	30,046

BOOOOOOOO! Casting Crowns got robbed at the awards show!


2005 Overall Awards

2005	Vastitas	Resurrect Pangaea 7"	Single of the Year	1
2005	the titans	first	Single of the Year	2
2005	Casting Crowns	Who Am I	Single of the Year	3

huh Im having a hard time getting the site up, is it down for anyone else?

We are still very happy and we got dsome practice in. I think its time to hit the raod and tour.

The Blues Men are releasing thier first single tonight!
(this is my 2nd band, my other one- Double D & The Usuals is part of FOFC Live- it will be fun to see the 2 compete against each other :))

The OC Supertones WERE releasing a single tonight. Until I try to log onto them and get the message that they don't exist anymore.

And then get this message:

3/3/2005: Please limit yourself to 2 bands per person.

Could have said this in the FAQ earlier, huh? Oh right, there is no freakin FAQ.

It is all part of Fascist Eagle's plan to crush you. Speaking of which :D

2. Enough Talk, Now We Rock (25000) (should have made more copies...)

SI

Just look for Casting Crowns in the all-time sales;)

Royal Knights are going on their first tour. 7 day trip in the Southeast. I need some cash.

Just created an all girl pop group "Fantasy".

Looks like Sparrow will have 4 releases this week, including the first album release by a Sparrow band.

RELEASES DUE THIS MONTH Barlow Girl (Barlow Girl) Kleft (Pipe Dreams) Relient K (relient K 2000 A.D.D.) Short One Crouton (K E L L Y) (album)

Yeah my happiness wont get higher I even played Music maven for 10 days last month....but my income is picking up.

That's right, S1C first album on Sparrow Records! You better recognize!

Relient K and Barlow Girl are topping the charts! But yet Sparrow Records is still rated at #33. I have no clue how the ratings work.

Just joined this, but I'm waiting for my password via email.

Band: The Emilys

Hailing from Baltimore, MD - we're Britpop. Naming of the band came about by finding the most popular girl's name in America from 2003 in an attempt to find a name that's non-descript as possible. We're going to change the world :)

Offer sent your way.

Just created a second band... all girl teen pop sensation "Finger Bang"

Pix pls.

SI

Royal Knights completed their first 7 day tour. The last day of the tour we made our most money, $79. We now have 9 groupies.

Fantasy is still working on material.

I applyied my second band, Awoken Seers to Sparrow Records. Also Leaning on the Rock made 4000 dollars last month, they will spend the next month in the PPS and practice so they maybe be able to tour better.

Any clue as to why Sparrow is so low rated as a label? You have a couple of superstar bands with tons of singles released and lots of solid bands.

SI

Got me.

And could someone explain to me how Subversion is the biggest label in the game? They've only released 1 single among 7 of their bands and only half of those even have popularity above 50.

SI

I think maybe it got screwed up since the release of version 3. Just a hunch.

SI, looks like we were right. Posted in the Master Bug List section of the Bug forum:

17. Label ratings were being calculated incorrectly FIXED 3/6/2005

Yeah, I saw that, too :)

The dev's been hard at work with all the fixes in the bug thread. It's not like he's sitting on his hands or something.

SI

it's because i read this thread.

Thanks a lot Doug.

Yes WE ARE ON TOP!!!!

Wow, I didn't expect us to go quite that high, nice.

FOFC labels are at #1,2, and 8. Can't beat that.

Doug, is there any way you could add a column to the label rankings that would show what rank a label was the previous month? Thanks.

Office Pimps, despite the fact that they are horribly struggling and have no cohesion whatsoever, would like to protest the pissant amount of money they've received from their label for producing.

How can we put out our QUALITY MUSIC at such a pittance? HOW?

So what if 13 people came to see us last night in Springfield? They came to see us sing Hack and Slash, motherfucker. They came to see us sing Shock and Awe. Hell, they'll come to see some new shit we came up with. We were all drunk by the time we finished, so we just called it We Is and went home.

Fuckin record labels.

We're calling our next song 'Die Sparrow Die'.

Fuckin record labels.

Well for Leaning on the Rock happiness is low so we are touring 14 days next month and hope to rack in around 20k and then we are resting 17 days, playing music maven. That should raise happiness, and then maybe release the next month. A few questions, does it matter how well you know the song when you release it? and how many days should you record?

Canadian Myth is almost ready to record, two or three more months of practice and touring so that we can afford the finest, then we take the singles world by storm.

Ungrateful bands, I swear. Give a band the highest contract ever given at the time and all they do is gripe, gripe, gripe. When your next contract offer comes around, you had better pull out the microscope to read the fineprint. Because if Office Pimps thought they got screwed in this deal, "They Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".