Comments on: Email to Columbia (& Sony BMG)

By: holeyinteresting 3 | holeytonal.com

holeyinteresting 3 | holeytonal.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:22:48 +0000

[...] By Toad – Email to Columbia (& Sony BMG) - Music bloggers who have worked hard to promote a band have had their posts taken down by the [...]

By: Will

Will — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:18:07 +0000

Great job Matt, I hope these guys give you a response. They need to realize our intentions are to help the artists. Good for you for doing this!

By: Endearingly Ramshackle

Endearingly Ramshackle — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:41:05 +0000

Noticed this on Drowned In Sound, Ed's troubles made the comments.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:29:32 +0000

Sent, and nothing so far. I am not holding my breath, but in terms of showing even a shred of willing to engage with music fans, I really hope there’s at least some sort of response.

By: The Daily Growl

The Daily Growl — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:05 +0000

So have you sent the letter? Keen to hear the response (if any)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:23:12 +0000

Mike from Green Lights was the only actual blogger nominated, I think. It looks like they plugged the word music blog into a search engine and wrote down the first five things that came up.

By: The Daily Growl

The Daily Growl — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:20:15 +0000

Interesting about EMI. I’ve tended to look on them more favourably than all the other majors, and I think they’re the only one of the four who actually send me stuff.

On the subject of journos, a guy called Chris Salmon writes a column called ‘click to download’ for the Guardian, which covers music on the internet. This sort of thing would probably be ideal for his column.

Ironically, the NME introduced a ‘best blog’ award at their Tesco NME Awards (or something like that) last year. The fact that The Hype Machine was nominated shows how much they know/care about blogs…

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:20:16 +0000

Could be worth a try, 17 Seconds got flagged up twice as being a good blog, as did one or two others…

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:50:03 +0000

Ed, if nothing try the Guardian Weekend Guide Internet section (you know, blogroll/what we learnt this week on the net, etc.) - that at least has an immediate relevance & someone on that staff may forward it to the right copy/feature editor & get the ball rolling that way. Try Spin & Paste magazines in the States - as much as I can't stand them they are very blog friendly. Uncut in the UK may be a good call, too; if not in print then on-line on their exyensive site. Also, simply for the sake of publicity, touch up Pop Bitch, Smoking Gun, Drudge Retort, The Onion, etc. You angle it right & you could have a lot of people aware of the 'cause' very quickly.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:40:04 +0000

Well we should wait to hear what the guy says before kicking off too much. But the NME hate blogs – read their site, blogs are never mentioned. Best finding a music writer who deals with a lot of this stuff, like Alex Petritidis (sp?) at the Guardian. But like I said, I’d rather wait until we see if the Sony guy is going to come back with anything.