We are a collaboration of music enthusiasts who want to share their thoughts about the music that is being released in our world. We give honest opinions and guided descriptions to enable our readers to determine what they may want to listen to next as well as providing the artists with an insight as to what a seasoned music geek really thinks about their music.
History
We started this website in 2012 because we realized there was a surplus of music being created in recent years. One reason for this was because recording technology caught up and more people than ever were recording music from their home or at a local studio. Musicians no longer needed a huge budget to make a decent recording and because of this more music than ever is being released. It is also easier than ever to get your music on the internet with sites like soundcloud, bandcamp, reverbnation , etc. The major downside to these sites is that you are competing with thousands of different artists and your songs are like trying to find a needle in a haystack. One other thing we noticed happening with a lot of other popular music sites and blogs is that they rotated and reviewed the same 50 artists. We felt this method was barely scratching the surface and decided that we wanted to dig a bit deeper and see what else was out there.
Model
It is pretty obvious to most die-hard music fans that most of the mainstream media like Pitchfork or Spin chose to only review top-tier acts and seem to rotate the same 50 artists. We do not care if an artist has 50 fans or 500,000 fans. That brings us to our next point. We thought it would be a waste of time to critique music we did not like (Who wants bad press?). Regardless of whether we like it or not that artist most likely put a lot of time and effort into their album. Do we really want to waste our time slamming an album when there are countless amounts of amazing albums being made. Artists are featured by either being on our radar, chosen from our submission form or selected through MusoSoup. We receive a large amount of submissions everyday and although we would like to critique more, we do feel that if we critiqued too many artists it would be overboard and don't want to overload our site with so many that our readers start skipping over them. Our staff makes weekly decisions on who we want to feature and then give those artists a number of options (free or offer) to choose from so they can maximize their exposure.
FAQ
How much traffic do you guys get? So we currently get around 700 - 1200 unique visitors and 5000 - 7000 page views a day. You can check out specifics here.
So do you guys like approve everyone? Oh goodness no - If our goal was to split our meager earnings so the staff could buy a couple of extra frozen dinners before our audience left us this would be the way to go but it's not.
History
We started this website in 2012 because we realized there was a surplus of music being created in recent years. One reason for this was because recording technology caught up and more people than ever were recording music from their home or at a local studio. Musicians no longer needed a huge budget to make a decent recording and because of this more music than ever is being released. It is also easier than ever to get your music on the internet with sites like soundcloud, bandcamp, reverbnation , etc. The major downside to these sites is that you are competing with thousands of different artists and your songs are like trying to find a needle in a haystack. One other thing we noticed happening with a lot of other popular music sites and blogs is that they rotated and reviewed the same 50 artists. We felt this method was barely scratching the surface and decided that we wanted to dig a bit deeper and see what else was out there.
Model
It is pretty obvious to most die-hard music fans that most of the mainstream media like Pitchfork or Spin chose to only review top-tier acts and seem to rotate the same 50 artists. We do not care if an artist has 50 fans or 500,000 fans. That brings us to our next point. We thought it would be a waste of time to critique music we did not like (Who wants bad press?). Regardless of whether we like it or not that artist most likely put a lot of time and effort into their album. Do we really want to waste our time slamming an album when there are countless amounts of amazing albums being made. Artists are featured by either being on our radar, chosen from our submission form or selected through MusoSoup. We receive a large amount of submissions everyday and although we would like to critique more, we do feel that if we critiqued too many artists it would be overboard and don't want to overload our site with so many that our readers start skipping over them. Our staff makes weekly decisions on who we want to feature and then give those artists a number of options (free or offer) to choose from so they can maximize their exposure.
FAQ
How much traffic do you guys get? So we currently get around 700 - 1200 unique visitors and 5000 - 7000 page views a day. You can check out specifics here.
So do you guys like approve everyone? Oh goodness no - If our goal was to split our meager earnings so the staff could buy a couple of extra frozen dinners before our audience left us this would be the way to go but it's not.