Comments on: How-to: Digital submissions to music blogs

By: debcha

debcha — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:20:47 +0000

Glad you approve, Justin. There's some neat stuff coming down the pike on this front - check this out, for example.

By: debcha

debcha — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:20:47 +0000

Glad you approve, Justin. There's some neat stuff coming down the pike on this front - check this out, for example.

By: Justin Johnson

Justin Johnson — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:18:28 +0000

Oh.My.God.
You said ‘give me good meta data’. That is truly awesome. Q-Burns recently did a great post on this subject, comparing his 11 year old niece to a record label – basically saying “c’mon labels, even my niece understands the importance of proper ID3 tags”.

By: Chris Fullam (Conflict In The Sky)

Chris Fullam (Conflict In The Sky) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:52:16 +0000

Really good post man – always good to read it from the bloggers perspective. My band is getting ready to start doing the whole contact bloggers thing, so this is helpful. Some common sense, but many artists seem to lack that, so a well organized post always helps!

By: debcha

debcha — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:36:40 +0000

Hey, Robert – I feel your pain. By ‘DJ mixes,’ I specifically meant mixing songs by other artists, which is really about the live experience, responding to the audience, as far as I’m concerned. But it sounds like you’re creating original compositions, which is a whole other thing. I don’t tend to review longer-form electronica here, but I’m sure there are other outlets for you. Keep it up!

By: Robert J! Lake

Robert J! Lake — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:55:26 +0000

I will be honest here when I say that I am confused by the fact that you’re all like “hey DJ Mixes are a no” and I’m cool with that but then you go all “no bedroom music” and that’s what I DO.

I mean I don’t have the equipment for super live shows yet. I’m a one man guy. A one man guy that makes electronica.

difficulties abound D=

By: Sophia

Sophia — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:21:23 +0000

Yes! The last thing Mike or I want are more physical cds on our shelves. But, definitely bands need to recommend some tracks, and tell us what they sound like. “we’re psycho experimental folk indie rock fusion” doesn’t mean anything to me. Tell me you like Modest Mouse and get over it.

By: debcha

debcha — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:04:52 +0000

Thanks, Justin! I wrote it up because everything I found about digital submission was from the artist’s perspective, not the bloggers’.

Please feel free to share it widely!

By: Justin Snow

Justin Snow — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:21:22 +0000

This is such a smart post. I’m so glad you took the time to write this out. I just hope it finds its way to the right people. Your #2 and #3 items are really big to me. If there isn’t a single word in the e-mail that describes the music, I almost never click through to give them a listen. And likewise, if there’s just a link to a whole album, while nice in it’s own way, as you said, is very detracting if I can’t hear anything to before I download an entire album.