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Festival" you mean the Athens Popfest, this festival is specifically designed to be "all about the little guy" (from the website
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Looking at the Google hits from this band, it is obvious to me that they are just a small-time local band. They have had a couple of write-ups in local newspapers but local newspapers are often charitable to local bands. A few local gigs, a local festival. Nothing outside their immediate area that
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I should have worded my "google" remark more carefully. While I do feel that having few google hits is a reliable indicator for a group that aspires to be a popular band, my reference was to what the hits were saying. As was noted elsewhere, a very few local reviews. Local band in a local paper is
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I waded through quite a few of the google hits. Nashville, like Austin down here in TX, has quite good media coverage of the local music scene. If you play any local gigs, it is going to be covered in quite a few local publications and no small number of "local scene" blogs. While this gives a
167:- Touring is NOT the ONLY criteria for notability. They have received notable press coverage, are playing a major event (Athens Music Festival) which is NOT a "local gig," and to dust off the dreaded Google count... 817 hits. Wiki guidelines say a few hundred are probably good enough.
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