Michael Brandvold

Hired to rebuild W.A.S.P.’s social media and website. Also overseeing the tour promotion and marketing for the band’s 40th Anniversary world tour starting in 2022.

Started marketing and promotion for debut solo release of Dare Force co-founder Johnny O’Neil. Professed to managing artist.

Provide PR, marketing and digital strategy for Dark Star Records recording artists.

Provide PR, marketing and digital strategy for MR Records recording artists.

Provide PR and social media marketing for Rock Candy Magazine.

To support Rekihndled, his first new album in over 20 years, Greg Kihn released a music video for the lead single Big Pink Flamingos. We put together a unique promotion to debut the new video, harkening back to the classic MTV days. We arranged for original MTV VJ Martha Quinn to “world premiere” the video/single on her iHeart80sRadio show and website.

In 2014 ACCEPT released BLIND RAGE. Prior to the release I was brought in to manage and build their presence on Facebook, something that had never been a priority in the past. Their total Facebook Page Likes under my direction view by 50% in one year prior to the album release. A content/posting strategy was implemented that turned what was a inactive Page into a Page with daily activity. Coordinating with their record label, Nuclear Blast, a marketing campaign was launched to promote the new… Show more

In 2014 ACCEPT released BLIND RAGE. Prior to the release I was brought in to manage and build their presence on Facebook, something that had never been a priority in the past. Their total Facebook Page Likes under my direction view by 50% in one year prior to the album release. A content/posting strategy was implemented that turned what was a inactive Page into a Page with daily activity. Coordinating with their record label, Nuclear Blast, a marketing campaign was launched to promote the new album and supporting world tour. The efforts online contributed to the band having their first #1 album in Germany and their highest Billboard Top 200 debut in their career. The supporting world tour saw sold out shows around the world. Show less

For Dream Theater, while recording their 2013 self-titled release they wanted to stay in touch with the fans but still maintain their solitude while recording I setup a Tweet Q&A campaign. Over the course of two weeks fans submitted 1000’s of questions on Twitter. We selected a range of questions that would afford each band member the opportunity to respond and give the band the chance to prehype the album release and supporting tour. The band recorded a series of 12 videos answering a number… Show more

For Dream Theater, while recording their 2013 self-titled release they wanted to stay in touch with the fans but still maintain their solitude while recording I setup a Tweet Q&A campaign. Over the course of two weeks fans submitted 1000’s of questions on Twitter. We selected a range of questions that would afford each band member the opportunity to respond and give the band the chance to prehype the album release and supporting tour. The band recorded a series of 12 videos answering a number of questions in each clip. The video clips generated over 400,000 views. Show less

Since launching Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 3,000,000 times. In the last year, Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, the Black Veil Brides' Andy Biersack, Frank Munoz associate producer for Ace Frehley's Anomaly album, award winning songwriter Adam Mitchell, Ed Kanon (Peter Criss' drum tech), and Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS' Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was recently… Show more

Since launching Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 3,000,000 times. In the last year, Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, the Black Veil Brides' Andy Biersack, Frank Munoz associate producer for Ace Frehley's Anomaly album, award winning songwriter Adam Mitchell, Ed Kanon (Peter Criss' drum tech), and Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS' Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was recently picked (October 2013) as a 'What's Hot' podcast by Apple's iTunes.

In the early '90s, Michael Brandvold launched the fifth ever website on the Internet devoted to KISS, KISS Otaku. He was the first to build, launch and maintain Kissonline.com (KISS' official web presence). Tommy Sommers has spent many years on the record show circuit selling memorabilia and meeting many KISS fans.

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Welcome to The Music Biz Weekly, a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert . Each week we discuss the latest events in the music business and music marketing events and techniques.

Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael’s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com’s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking, first of it’s kind VIP ticket program. In 2003 when the VIP program launched that Michael helped craft a tour of 60 dates sold out 25 $1000 VIP packages per show. This success was repeated in 2005 and quickly became the template that other artists hoped to duplicate.

In 2001 KISS released the Box Set. Managing the band’s official website at the time I worked with Universal Music to create a direct email strategy to promote the release directly to the band’s fan base. A focused email plan promoting preorder and then post release sales generated so much sales that our sales partner in the plan, Amazon, created a case study of our success for their other affiliates on how to build a direct email strategy.

Digital release strategy and PR for the North American release of Tony Martin’s new solo album THORNS.

Leading the digital release and strategy for the single Funky With You and upcoming album release in 2022.

Marketing and promotion for former Enuff Z’Nuff lead singer Donnie Vie’s solo career spanning box set. Secured the artist a merchandise deal. Found the artist a booking agent. Working on re-releasing artist’s back catalog of solo releases.

Providing LA based band Budderside, signed to Motörhead Music, with guidance, digital strategy and PR for their second album and singles leading to their third album. Secured a merchandise deal and booking agent for the band.

Provide PR, marketing and digital strategy for Louder Than Loud recording artists.

Provide PR, marketing and digital strategy for Robert Duncan in the promotion of his book LoudMouth.

Provide PR, marketing and digital strategy for RFL Records recording artists.

Provide PR, marketing and digital strategy for HighVolMusic recording artists, Every Mothers Nightmare and PJ Farley.

Provided PR and digital release execution for the South X South Dakota on HighVolMusic. Arrange interviews, video premieres and a live streaming performance on BraveWords.com.

New York Time & USA Today Bestselling author and speaker brought us in to ramp up his social media and email marketing efforts. We quickly increased the click through rates in Jason’s weekly emails 2 – 3 times, some as high 8 times. The increased click throughs have lead to increased web traffic and podcast plays.

Provided online marketing and interfaced with Jason’s record label for the release of his album Triumphant Hearts.

Provided all marketing efforts for the venue and all booked shows. Engaged with all artists to assist in their show marketing efforts. Booked bands for venue.

We managed a Facebook promotion designed to target new fans. Our efforts reduced the cost per Like five fold for a previous campaign the band had ran prior to our involvement.

Jordan Rudess launched a PledgeMusic crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to release both a new solo album and a new smartphone app. The goals were adventurous, but by helping Jordan craft extremely unique awards and the marketing program to support the promotion of the campaign Jordan was able to exceed is goal by 50%!

Begin working with ROXX GANG on the reissue of The Voodoo You Love.