Q: How can I get reviewed?

A: I suggest you reach out to me or to one of my writers, but be patient. Since we all have other “day jobs,” we don’t have as much time to discover new music as we’d like. So please, reach out to us, and we’ll try to find time to give your music a listen. We all review a bit differently. I review from a “review queue” of MP3s (or WAVs, though I like that MP3 files are smaller and take up less space) on my computer, so I’d prefer receiving music either via e-mail (or, especially if it’s more than one song, via a dropbox link) or, if you prefer, you can send physical product. I receive mail at the P.O. box on the contact page. If you reach out to a different writer, you can discuss preferences that with the particular writer. We get lots of music and only review our favorites – and we don’t even find time to review all of our favorites – so don’t worry if we don’t review the first thing you send.

Of course, if I or any of my writers fail to get back to you when you reach out to us, please cut us some slack. I was unable to keep up with the musicians who’ve started following me on twitter when I was just a former music journalist; now I rarely find time to reply to anyone at all. (I wish I could, but I have limited writing time, and replying to every e-mail would take all the time I allocate to writing reviews.) If you don’t hear from us, feel free to try again in a month or two. And be kind. We’re just people with other day jobs and outside lives doing this because we love it, even though we really don’t have enough time.

There are some easy ways to contact us. You can use this contact form (which sends an e-mail to me).  You can use my “writer page” contact form to reach me or Eric Harabadian’s contact form to reach him.  (None of my other writers have chosen to have a contact page right now.)  Or you contact me via Twitter/X or Instagram or Spoutible. (Follow me on your social medium of choice. If it’s obvious from your profile you’re a musician, I’ll follow you back, and then we can start a discussion via private message.)  If you’d specifically like to reach one of our other writers, I’ll be glad to forward a message to them, too – just use the main contact form and ask.