Tag: merch

Top 10 Bands of Summer -Bands About to Break Big, Best Innovative Marketers, Most Creative Merch, Fan Favorites

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These underground bands all have something leading-edge about them making them the bands to watch when it comes to influencing youth culture. Street report from Label Networks’ summer road warriors.

Successful Launch 16 of the Vans Warped Tour Marks Fresh Trends in Sponsorships, Music, Fashion for a New Generation

As the largest, longest-running youth culture music tour and festival ever, it’s always a monumental occasion when Warped hits the road. Here’s what went down.

%u201CI’m Not a Gamer, I Just Play Guitar Hero” -How the New Demo of Gamers Are Changing the Industry and What the Big Publishers Are Doing to Tap New Crossover Markets

There’s a new, growing youth demo that’s adopting a different sort of gaming culture into their so-called virtual lifestyles, changing up the landscape of the industry itself and introducing new crossover opps for non-endemic brands.

The Dead Weather Takes the World by Storm (and the Rise of Uber Bands)

When Jack White’s The Dead Weather blew through LA, their novelties shop, theater, and Horehound performance set a new bar for pop-up merch and event experiences. Bet on new uber bands to be a part of the music future.

Rockstar Mayhem Fest Embodies What’s-up with Modern Day Extreme Music and with It, Regenerated a New Demo of Metal Fans, Sponsorship Opportunities, and Graphic Fashion

Not just headliners Marilyn Manson and Slayer brought fans to Rockstar Mayhem this summer, but the mash-up coming from All That Remains, Job for a Cowboy, Bullet for My Valentine caused a reverb effect that keeps ears (and new trends) ringing.