If you look way down at the bottom of the VTM home page, you'll spy a new feature. We're working with the crew from DecentX.com to spotlight the indie and unsigned artists from that most excellent site…and so far it's been a rout.

Fatkid Dodgeball, from Columbus, Ohio, has been kicking some serious butt. The first poll was 'pick a favorite' while the second introduced mp3 samples from each band. Each time, FKDB won handily.

Does that mean they're the best band we've featured? Not necessarily. What it means is that they've got aggressive management and motivated fans. And that's really the point of Vote The Music. We're here to let fans support their favorite bands, whereever and whenever.

When FKDB heard about the poll, they put out the word and the votes came rolling in. The same thing can work for you and your favorite band, whether the idea is to get on TRL, get a spin on the MTV2 affiliate in Albequerque or just pump up the performance on the Pure Volume Band Rankings page.

As for our DecentX.com poll, we've put FKDB on the sidelines this week, while we offer up tunes from Copperpot, Cedarwell, In Theory, Ordinary Peoples and the Zac Brown Band. Next week, things get even more interesting when we up the ante one more time and put up videos from The Cat Empire, Fishbone, Conscious, Mer and Russ Golan & Molehead. We really like of few of these videos…hope you do too.

By the way, if you're a DX band reading this, send us your videos. The more videos we get, the more often we'll be able to do all-video polls.

And once we round up a few more winners, we'll put FKDB back in the mix and see who comes out on top.

Posted by SpudBoy on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 2:57 pm In Music | Comments RSS