Thanks to you all for making the first week of Blogcritics.com a rousing success. We had excellent traffic, links from around the world and down your street, and very good response from the record labels as well. We should start to have new CDs for you to review shortly. I am still working out the logistics of how they will be distributed - we may do it on a first-request first-serve basis as the labels aren't going to send us 140 copies of each release, certainly not to begin with. Will advise soon.
THIS WEEK - We are going to do an interview with a prominent person every week. Please send me your suggestions. This week we are interviewing legendary rock critic and MJI editorial director Ira Robbins on Thursday, August 22. His classic Trouser Press books are now up online with all content available for free. Please post in the comments or email your questions for Ira to me by Wednesday. For more information on Ira and Trouser Press, please see this post:
You should all have received your password and instructions for entering your own posts into Blogcritics.com - if you did not receive these or if you have any questions please contact me - technical questions should go to Glenn Frazier: blogcritic@glennfrazier.com
We encourage you all to post as regualrly as you'd like - I've heard from many readers who say they love seeing new posts up all the time. Right now we are doing music and book review/essays, music and publishing industry news. We will be adding movies, videos/DVDs, TV, and anything else you can think of soon.
Please don't forget to link to your Blogcritics.com entries from your own sites, and please mention the Ira Robbins interview - we are our own best source of traffic.
Thanks again, and keep posting.
Article comments
1 - Prentiss Riddle
Here's an idea to simplify distribution of review CDs: print out reviewers' snail-mail addresses on sticky labels, with the genres they're interested in in a corner of each label. Send sheets of the sticky labels to the record labels (and book and DVD publishers when the time comes). Let the publishers decide how many copies they want to send and to whom. If they want to send out 140 copies, or send death metal CDs to folk music fans, that's their business. And that gets you out of the tedious job of matching product to reviewers and packing and shipping the product.
I'm psyched! This is a busy week, but expect more submissions from me soon...
2 - Travis Lee
great idea! or, do it yourself...or give it to the people who regularly post maybe? the more you post , the more chance you get to review cds?
just a thought
travis