I need help advertising my band (any ideas).?

You could have used the band's name in the question.
Mention it EVERYWHERE.
Fliers.
Call in to radio shows and say "this band I heard was great".
Get to know a DJ at a local station.
College television. When I was at school we had a band in the tv studio at least once a month.
T-shirts.
"Viral" marketing, guerrilla marketing, etc.
Be creative, and be persistent. EVERYTHING is a marketing opportunity. If you don't finish a conversation with "so, come on out and see the band this weekend" it's a wasted conversation.
Oh yea, and don't suck.
Good luck.

Create a demo CD in a professional studio and send it out to clubs and studios with a short bio of the band and the band's Website.

Get a killer Website that uses interactive technologies like Flash, Java, and has download samples of your music.

Have your friends and family pimp your band like mad.

Do a service project in the community under the name of your band.

Get a gig at a local club and put up flyers everywhere.

Give demo CDs to all your friends, family and their friends and family.

But most importantly, have some killer songs and don't suck!

Join as many band oriented Web sites as possible and pimp your band like mad.

Get a myspace account and put up info about your band there.

Go door to door proselyting the goodness and mightyness of your band. (Okay, this only works for missionaries, sorry.)

audition for that show that's gonna be on fox. any band can be on there.

People who've heard your band play are really helpful. Ask them to tell their friends about how good you sound, etc. Word of tongue always is the best kind of thing when it comes to getting your name out.

Make tons of fliers, pass them out to people directly, hang them everywhere you can think of-- even on a bathroom door. You never know who might be looking at it.

MySpace. Just don't use anything you'll regret.

Make flyers and pass them out

Even though you recently published your domain name on major major search engines/directories, you may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website and placing various critical metatags can surely achieve a high search engine presence and placement.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the Title metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The Title should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the Title is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the Description which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes the goods and services.

And the very last category - Keywords are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It's in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

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