Claim if You So Desire

[mx]

I'll be posting label review requests here as they come in. Whoever responds first and is a good writer will get the gig, just email your address to sputnikmusic.contact@gmail.com

Hi,

My name's Dot and I work for an independent record label called Chicken Wire Records.

We represent an artist called Richard John Thompson, a singer / songwriter who is releasing his second album "Illogical Life" on July 10th.

I wondered if you would be interested in doing a review of the album.If so, could you supply me with a contact name and address to send the album to.

[Hep Kat]

I will. If that's okay with you, that is.

[Storm In A Teacup]

I'll do it.

Damn :upset:

[mx]

Dear Sputnik Music:

Radical Records is currently supporting the Sex Slaves on their US tour
which will send them through the southern states this summer. They are a
hardworking NYC rock and roll band with a punk sound and metal attitude.
They have been on rotation at several radio stations like The Bone 93.3 in
Texas and have recorded theme music for World Wrestling Entertainment. I can
send you a promo copy of their recent release Bite Your Tongue as a review
submission.

[pixiesfanyo]

sent you an e-mail.

[Storm In A Teacup]

Me!

FFS! :angry:

[Jom]

Congrats, Hep Kat - no pressure on you or anything, since this is the first label review exchange and everything... :p

Sex Slaves... have recorded theme music for World Wrestling Entertainment

I was wondering why that name looked familiar, haha (in a non-creepy way).

[Hep Kat]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.



I won't let ya down, fellas (and gals) :cool:

[Storm In A Teacup]

I lost twice in a row. :-\

Congratulations though Hep Kat!

[Hep Kat]

I lost twice in a row. :-\

Congratulations though Hep Kat!

Thank you sir. You'll get one eventually.


Just keep your hawk eyes trained on this thread :cool:

[Storm In A Teacup]

Will do. :cool:

[mx]

Hello!

My name is Drew Juergens, I run the US offices for Lifeforce Records. I
wanted to know where I could send promos for review on your site?

Thank you!

- Drew

Drew Juergens
Drew@lifeforcerecords.com

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Out now on Lifeforce America:
Raunchy - Death Pop Romance
Herod - Rich Man's War. Poor Man's Fight
Out May 16th:
Endstand - The Time Is Now
Out June 27th:
Deadsoil - Sacrifice
Fall Of Serenity - Bloodred Salvation
Still Kicking ***:
Withered - Memento Mori
Hell Within - Aslyum Of The Human Predator
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WWW.LIFEFORCE-AMERICA.COM

[Storm In A Teacup]

I'll do it!

edit: Third times a charm. :cool:

[mx]

Send an e-mail to me with your address

[Hep Kat]

Hey, this Richard John Thompson is really good! I'm going to have fun reviewing that album.

[Storm In A Teacup]

Send an e-mail to me with your address

Teh done. :)

[pixiesfanyo]

Jeremy, I'd be willing to fill as many as these requests as you see fit.

So feel free to send my address as a default too anything.

[Damrod]

Just dropped you a mail :)

[Hep Kat]

Jeremy, I'd be willing to fill as many as these requests as you see fit.

So feel free to send my address as a default too anything.

The same goes for me. I have plenty of free time.

[JohnXDoe]

This is really, really great for sputnik. And it's contributers. I won't be doing one yet. I'm the sort of writer that needs to know genre and stuff. I'd be lost on new punk or metal. But straight ahead rock or alternative I could tackle. Folk, bluegrass, and country, too.

Until then I'll just keep reviewing the old stuff. :chug:

[innerdark]

if taste media give you a bell, i'm up for it

[Storm In A Teacup]

I'm willing to do more than one review too for Lifeforce.

[DFelon204409]

Ya, sign me up for an incoming music as well. I've been almost writing a review a day.

[superpeer]

What if the reviewer doesn't like it? Surely they won't want negative reviews.

I'd do it, but I'm a bit busy lately.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Yeah, I was wondering if it's one of those gigs where a critical review results in no more albums.

[Sepstrup]

Once you implement the reviewing ranks, you could just have your staff reviewers decide whether they want to do this on a regular basis, and send the albums to them. If there aren't enough you can go to the next class, and so on, so the most qualified person gets it, rather than the first person to look in this thread. (I'm not implying any of you aren't qualified, just an idea for the future)

[superpeer]

I wonder if they'd send it all the way to Belgium.

[masada]

sure

[JohnXDoe]

Belgium gets mail, wtf? :confused:

[masada]

belgium EXISTS???

:confused:

[Robert Crumb]

What if the reviewer doesn't like it? Surely they won't want negative reviews.

Ideally, every album is wonderful in its own way. But there are some plain bad albums out there, and if you're dealing with independents, you gonna come across a whole lot of meh. Labels know this, and I think they kinda hope that someone will play softball. But I can guarantee the world won't end if you give an indepedent release a bad review, at least as long as it's well-written. Been there. Some will even keep sending you stuff either way.

Besides, no point in lying about how you feel. And if Sputnik receives these review requests unsolicited, then there will likely be more where that came from.

[Hep Kat]

I'm just happy this character who I'm going to be reviewing sounds good...

[superpeer]

Ideally, every album is wonderful in its own way. But there are some plain bad albums out there, and if you're dealing with independents, you gonna come across a whole lot of meh. Labels know this, and I think they kinda hope that someone will play softball. But I can guarantee the world won't end if you give an indepedent release a bad review, at least as long as it's well-written. Been there. Some will even keep sending you stuff either way.

Besides, no point in lying about how you feel. And if Sputnik receives these review requests unsolicited, then there will likely be more where that came from.

Hey, I'd be happy to romanticize my reviews in return for free CDs. =D

[Robert Crumb]

Eh, free CDs are overrated. Although it's an undeniably cool feeling getting a nice little package in the post with music in it. Warms me heart. :)

Edit: Actually, the best thing about free CDs is selling them to the used music store and buying something you really want. :o

[superpeer]

Haha, I bet.

[The Jungler]

I sent you my address.

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

Forgive my ignorance, but when you say "send me your address", you mean e-mail, right? 'Cus I'd like to get in on this.

[Iluvatar]

No, send your actual adress to him through email, so you can get sent copies of advance albums if mx so chooses you.

I might do this in the near future, but reviews come so out of the blue for me, I oh-so-rarely can do any new release reviews.

[Phaedra]

I like how I suggested doing this, and it actually got implemented. Wouldn't happen on many sites.

And I don't think I'll sign up or anything, I only do so many reviews, and I'd prefer to have the freedom to review sporadically.

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

Sent you my address.

[Iai]

Superpeer raises an interesting point, actually. Can these albums be sent out internationally?

[Storm In A Teacup]

No, send your actual adress to him through email, so you can get sent copies of advance albums if mx so chooses you.

oops :upset:

[mx]

Not sure about international. But if it's a UK band, I will assign to a UK reviewer, same with Continental Europe.

My name is Jennifer and I work for Respect Management. We are about to drop a hot new reggae artist who needs to be reviewed. Please send me your address, the name of the person in charge of the reviews, your telephone number, and whether or not you accept electronic press kits. Thank you very much. I look forward to hearing from you. Have a wonderful day!

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

Uh... Hi.

[StreetlightRock]

Wow, four days of this thread up and you've already posted about 6 or so requests for reviews from record labels... It's an intresting thing, this music industry, I mean, of all the reviewed albums written because of the requests, the chance of any of the artists making it 'big' is miniscule yet the number of requests for reviews seem to be pretty large. So much for the sacred recording contracts eh? (Even if they are for the most part indie labels)

/off topic

[Ephemeral]

If there are any coming from Canada, I'd be happy to do them, Jeremy. I'll listen to pretty much anything. Let me know if you are interested, and I can email you my address.

[Dave de Sylvia]

You can just email your address now, if you want. I don't think he'll send anything without asking anyway.

[Storm In A Teacup]

Anything new? I actually have sent an e-mail to Nural by way of myspace with the sputnikmusic myspace, so they should respond to the e-mail you listed here.

[The Jungler]

Anything new? I actually have sent an e-mail to Nural by way of myspace with the sputnikmusic myspace, so they should respond to the e-mail you listed here.I think only staff reviewers get new albums and the requests are posted in the staff thread.

[Storm In A Teacup]

I know that staff reviewers only do it, but uh, what staff thread?

[The Jungler]

I know that staff reviewers only do it, but uh, what staff thread?It's called Olympus or something like that.

I don't think I'm even supposed to know about it.

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

I saw that thread. It was mysteriously open for viewing not long ago. That's where Storm tells the mods who to ban. Among other things.

[The Jungler]

I saw that thread. It was mysteriously open for viewing not long ago. That's where Storm tells the mods who to ban. Among other things.No your thinking of the sputnik mod thread.

For a while I could view every thread. Mod forums, security forums, staff forums. It was cool.

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

No your thinking of the sputnik mod thread.
You know what I mean. Dawg.

For a while I could view every thread. Mod forums, security forums, staff forums. It was cool.
That's what I was talking about. A few weeks back it was all open for viewing for an hour or so.

[Dave de Sylvia]

There's a subforum of this here forum for staff reviewers.

[Storm In A Teacup]

...:lol:

I'm going to guess it looks like the 2 Year Old Archives that I can see and log in to (nothing useful is there). :p