DINOWALRUS's Peter Feigenbaum, not keepin' it reductive
When it comes to the tasks and processes involved in making and promoting music, there’s no one right way to do anything.
There are, however, plenty of wrong ways, and that’s why we created What NOT to Do, a regular series in which we help you avoid making the mistakes everybody makes when they’re trying to go it alone in the music world. In this installment, Peter Feigenbaum, a musician, installation artist and architectural designer living in Brooklyn whose band, DINOWALRUS, recently released its debut album, writes about why he believes your debut album should be as digestible and disciplined as possible.
For the past two years, I have been leading this bizzaro Brooklyn-based genre-bending psychedelic-noise-punk outfit called DINOWALRUS. We put out our debut album, %, on Kanine records. We pushed quite hard, but buzz and success eluded us this time around. None of the amazing opportunities that so many of our friends’ bands encountered, whether it was playing bigger shows in NYC or traveling to Europe to play, came our way. And that totally bummed me out. [click to continue…]
