Thinking Of A Silver State

Recently my friends the band Lazertag entered their music video, “Silver State” in a contest on the website ourstage.com and won. Directed by my ex roommate Brad Ungar, the video chronicles Lazertag’s (Mitch Buttress and Ryan Spratt) journey from San Francisco to Austin for South By Southwest. The video is great and the song is too. Some highlights include the band playing in my friend Israel’s truck and Ryan eating a cupcake from Austin’s own, Hey Cupcake. There's an interview with my friends Lazertag. Apparently their video was viewed by over a 1000 people and has created some new fans for them and of course they won $1000. This is a great example of how bands can use social media to promote themselves over the internet. Here they uploaded there video and got people to vote for it and in the end exposed themselves to a whole new audience, all thanks to social media and the Internet.