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• Comment on youdontneedseattle's answer…

  0 0 this is the exact same story for my band. we've been written up in magazines, blogs and had radio play in the states and europe but seattle just totally ignores us. this is a similar story among a lot of seattle bands. and in turn, bands that seem to have a huge presence in seattle have no support outside seattle city limits.. no band needs seattle. the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Comment on Megan Seling's answer…

  0 0 well.. yeah. i think all of what you said is correct. my only advice to bands would be to work on your craft and if the art is good enough things will work out for you on their own. don't get ahead of yourself... there's no answer on a message board that's going to sign you to a major label or get people all over the city or the world to love your music. the only answer is to make good art. some people cannot do that, for the same reason we don't all grow up to be professional athletes.. it doesn't matter how your press kit looks or how many websites you have; if you're art is shit and was conceived for the purpose self-masturbation then it will serve humanity in no way but to prolong your greed and ego. if an artist is making meaningful art in their garage or bedroom that art will find a way of reaching the world. if the art is that good and it has something to teach the world it will do so regardless of whether it's discovered now and the artist does a world tour or if it's discovered in a thousand years. i saw this message board Q&A experiment as one more glimmer of hope for those bands that get taken advantage of by easy-ways-out of working hard, learning a craft, honing their talent and their art and becoming successful based on the merits of their skill and not because they learned some trick to get their foot in the industry. if we offer no help to bands on how to "make it" we will weed out the ones who are good at marketing but make crap entertainment that sets us back intellectually for decades and we will be left with meaningful art that will stimulate our minds and allow us to view the world in a much broader way... less mad rad / more intelligence the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Comment on Nicolas Heliotis's answer…

  0 0 this answers any question anyone could possibly ask here today. the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Comment on Eric Grandy's answer…

  0 0 when does it mean having an exclusive on a band that isn't famous even locally and isn't just a lazy interview? when does it mean not worrying about what your readers want to see and what your readers need to see? the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Comment on Megan Seling's answer…

  0 0 what is "success" and how much of it relies on "good music"? i would argue that the only point of being in a band is to create meaningful art. that art will garner it's own success by simply existing. bands get screwed all the time because bands are comprised mostly by desperate individuals who are starved for attention and will go after that attention by any means necessary; which means, they will play weekday shows at the sunset, comet, funhouse, highdive, etc because they hold onto the false truth that playing shows will somehow get people to like them. in reality those shows are offered 7 nights a week becuase otherwise those bars would never see any traffic. they can only hope that by giving an unknown band a gig there, they will in turn bring in a few friends that will pay a few dollars cover and buy a few drinks to pay for the sound guy and their nightly operating costs. basically, the music industry prays upon people who have huge dreams but no desire to spend the time and effort to truly learn their craft, at which point they won't really need to ask questions on a message board because they will have already found the answers. the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

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  Why is it that The Stranger only gives write ups or reviews to local bands that already have a big draw or are signed to small or major/indie labels?

  3 8 because music writers are lazy and if a band solicits them with a press release, which i assume the bands you're referring to do on a very regular basis, they then have the ability to post the information provided from that press kit without actually having to do work finding out information on a band that no one has heard about. the same is true for most "reporting" nowadays. the stranger's music dept. sucks answered in Music Panel over 2 years ago Answer, comment & read 7 more answers »

• Comment on Nicolas Heliotis's answer…

  0 0 totally fair.. i troll.. but i never say anything unless it's warranted or valid. i don't think people should necessarily work within it or rage against it.. i think it should be thought of as obsolete... i dont think the "music industry" should influence people in one way or another. i just see way too many bands forming with the intent of fitting an existing mold or a genre and to me that completely misses the point of what art is.. it shouldn't just be a reflection of a trend or standard that already exists and that the artist is just taking advantage of, it should be something new that comes from within the artist, something they are trying to say as an individual or group of individuals. the fact that people go into a band thinking about what style would give them the best chance of success and how their press kit looks and who they need to talk to to get the most exposure just completely misses the point. what does it even mean to pack neumos if you're just hashing out a bunch of garbage to get paid? will anyone learn anything? will there be any intellectual stimulation at all? this problem extends to our entire society. everything we do is based more around fitting into a mold as opposed to forging a new mold all together. ps: the golden triangle tape rules.. i saw them 3 times at sxsw and every time was amazing. not too sure how to feel though about the song they put in that bmw commercial..?.. you getting kick backs on that? the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Comment on Nicolas Heliotis's answer…

  0 0 only took about a 2 minutes from question to asking. i think that's why i misspelled "there".. it came together rather fast actually. i wouldn't consider it a "dickhead" question. i just think that too many bands waste their time on wondering how to "make it" when they should be worrying about the actual reason they should be existing, which is to make music that doesn't inherently suck. there are far too many people that from day one they are trying to make a name for themselves and they are contacting all the people who are responding to questions here and they may even get shows out of it but that doesn't make their music any good and further more it just clogs up the already overwhelmed shitty music scene we already have in this city, namely. less time should be spent on trying to get in with a broken and worthless industry and more should be spent on exploring music as an art form.. music hasn't had a significant shift in years because everyone is worried about fitting into an existing industry model which makes it impossible to create something new. the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Comment on Eric Grandy's answer…

  0 0 this in fact happened. the stranger's music dept. sucks commented over 2 years ago

• Follow Following 1 would you advise people that if thier music was actually good they wouldn't be asking questions here? the stranger's music dept. sucks asked in Music Panel over 2 years ago 4 Answers by Megan Seling, Dave Segal , Nicolas Heliotis…

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