{"id":149,"date":"2008-10-08T19:40:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T00:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-11-22T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T01:36:23","slug":"free-publicity-for-independent-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/149","title":{"rendered":"Free publicity for independent musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a independent musician or are on a smaller label and would like free publicity, feel free to send me a link to your album online, or contact me for my mailing address if you would like to send a CD.  So far, I have only heard from two independent artists, and only one of them has sent me an a link to their album (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/music.raccoonfink.com\/\">Raccoon Fink<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those that don&#8217;t know, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\">music review<\/a> site that accompanies this blog. Since the more well-known artists get so much exposure already, the reviews that I write will not impact them very much; for this reason, I am willing to bump albums by lesser known musicians ahead in the queue for review.  All reviews have a link to the official site of the artist as well as a link to the album on Amazon (if it exists) for purchase.  Spreading your name through word of mouth and having a link for those inspired to buy your album can&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>You may be asking what I get out of this.  A couple of things actually.  First, I get exposure to new music.  Second, and most obviously, I get content for my site.  Third, I get the opportunity to fill a mainly untapped niche as most review sites do not focus on unsigned artists.<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared for a fair critique of your music though. If I think something sucks, I will not hesitate to let the world know.  If, on the other hand, you album rocks &#8211; so to speak &#8211; this may be just the kind of publicity that gets you noticed.  I accept submissions of all genres and generally publish 2 or 3 reviews per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a independent musician or are on a smaller label and would like free publicity, feel free to send me a link to your album online, or contact me for my mailing address if you would like to send a CD. So far, I have only heard from two independent artists, and only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[126,155,129,128,154,718,83,156,130],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-suggestions","category-reviews","tag-cd","tag-finally","tag-independent","tag-local","tag-raccoon-fink","tag-reader-suggestions","tag-review","tag-submit","tag-unsigned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}