Sputnikmusic News: Wk 09.30.08 2008-09-28 by Jom | 23 Comments | Sputnikmusic news for the week of September 30th, 2008, brought to you by Scott Herren: the man who once stopped a busload of nuns from driving into a volcano with only a piece of chewing gum and a stick.
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September 30 Releases
As you should know by now, this list is by no means authoritative or holistic, but features some of the bigger albums dropping this week:
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Anberlin - New Surrender
Bayside - Shudder
Bleeding Through - Declaration
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
Flecktones - Jingle All the Way
Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
Kinky - Barracuda
Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem
Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
Tom Morello - The Fabled City
James Morrison - Songs For You, Truths For Me
Kellie Pickler - Kellie Pickler
Porter Batiste Stoltz - MOODOO
Pete Seeger - At 89
Robin Thicke - Something Else
Connie Talbot - Over the Rainbow
James Taylor - Covers
T.I. - Paper Trail
Travis - Ode to J. Smith
Trivium - Shogun
Will Young - Let It Go
Look for staff reviews from Dave de Sylvia (Trivium, Tom Morello), Jared Dillon (T.I.), and already-published reviews of Innerpartysystem, Amon Amarth, and more.
Any staff review requests? Drop them a line here or post any review request at the community forums here:
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=563397
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Staff Promotions and the Contributor Overhaul
This week marks the end of the application process for potential staff writers. An announcement will be made this week, although I can give you an inside scoop and tell you that at least two writers will be joining the staff ranks, with a possible third to be announced at that time or at a later date.
No, I can't tell you who they are. Yes, you can speculate!
The news is the same as last week:
While there are 2-3 additions to the staff this fall, this is not to say that Dave and I will stop staff growth here. However, we have found it better to have promotions a maximum of twice a year (save for mitigating circumstances). This way, promotions actually are something significant and a sense of accountability and consistency stems from the crop of staffers.
Regarding contributors, it's the same thing as the past two weeks:
It has been discussed, to some degree (although not set in stone), that we are going to strive for approximately a 3:1 contributor:staff ratio (id est, for every staff writer, there will be about three contributing reviewers). What this basically means is that contributing status will have a much higher designation than what it previously was, as spots will be at a premium. Also: contributing reviewers may be cyclical based on activity or inactivity. Lastly, the current staff will have some say in who gets promoted to staff positions as well as contributing positions.
Once again, promotions to contributing status will not be as often and will be based on past merit and current work ethic. Accordingly, if we follow through with this proposed 3:1 ratio, we're not going to promote forty users in the first week. Promotions may be monthly, bi-monthly, every six months... it's something that we have to decide yet, but as always, Dave or I will keep you all posted.
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Other news
mynameischan is running Sputnik MADNESS m/ 2008. Think of March Madness, except with users instead of NCAA basketball teams. He will be using the list feature on the site, so make sure you have a lookout for this event, which has been successful in the past.
Look for a new staff feature from Dave de Sylvia within the next couple days.
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Reminder
When you are publishing reviews that have not been officially released yet (but have been made available online through the band's official site, MySpace, AOL Music, etc.), you MUST link to the stream below your review or in the first comment of the review. This will continue to be rigidly enforced.
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That should do it for this week. Happy thoughts, mates.
-Jom
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someone review new Bayside
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I thought Coke would do T.I., oh well, Jared's cool too.
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Ya when Coke originally applied to be staff he got in because on his app he said he'd be the "mainstream rap guy ever since Hep Kat left."
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I'm prob going to end up reviewing the new BMTH when I get it... all the songs posted I heard have been swimming in a world of mediocrity.
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I'm working on my review for the BMTH cd as we speak...just got to add in extra stuff after I hear the remaining tracks...yeah the album is actually worse than Count Your Blessings...sad
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where did hep kat go anyways
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i might review ode to j smith if i can be bothered. 
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Interesting...
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i dig these updates. good work, all
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with regards to the staff applications, i haven't heard anything directly (via email) for weeks... is this because there haven't been any emails sent out, or is my hotmail just fucked? i've seen the updates in these news items and it kinda hints that there's been other correspondance...
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Another busy week for the folks at Sputnik. I haven't been on as much as I would like these past couple of weeks, but hopefully I'll churn up another review within the next week.
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Chan do u remember who won last time?
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Sputnik madness hell yes! Vote or die '08. News is greatly appreciated once again Jom, you are the man.
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Oh.
Yeah go and vote people, its you RIGHT as a Sputnikmusic citizen!!!!
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i got Bayside review
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u got nothin son
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im interested in the Tom Morello review, his new thing will likely suck, but how much is what I wanna know.
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There've been no e-mails in weeks unless people have directly e-mailed me. I just tell them to read the news posts, mostly.
just to check, did you get my email a few weeks ago? the personal reflection thing? i would email to ask this, but if it's not working, that'd be kinda pointless...
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THOR FOR STAFF!
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Hell yeah!
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Caina- Tempoary Antennae would be gold.This Message Edited On 09.29.08
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cant wait for another negative Trivium review and how un-elite it is to like it. much needed here
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dungen's '4'?
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