how to get featured on a music website

Sure, we’re open to bribery here at Collapse Board. Isn’t everyone in the music industry?

We just like to be a little more open about it, that’s all. Not for us, the largesse of free drinks at the bar, free CDs, guest list places, the odd free drug or offer of sex, trips abroad, advertisements in return for guaranteed content … I’m not saying we’re not above taking it, just that we rarely – well OK then, never – get offered any of the above. A non-downloadable stream that becomes obsolete after seven days, that’s our fare. Someone linking us to the MySpace page. No matter. We like to take the more direct route. Send us money. Hard cash, preferably in Australian dollars. It doesn’t matter which currency it’s in really, as long as you send it. Maybe you might just enjoying reading Collapse Board and would like to show your support? Whatever. Here’s the Paypal account.

ramonesfan79@yahoo.co.uk

(That is a genuine account, by the way.)

Failing that, send us gifts. Gifts we can use. Gifts we want. Gifts like … uh, I don’t know … lunch-boxes with your band’s logo on them, pencils, lollies, T-shirts for the kids (like the one pictured above, styled by Isaac) … a USB key with your band’s music on it.

Of course, it helps if your music is GOOD. Helps, but not mandatory. We’ll still write about you if it’s crap, but we might not be, um, entirely favourable … y’know?

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6 Responses to “how to get featured on a music website”

  1. Pedant says:
    April 28, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    Unless there is a second band called Sole Stickers that Google won’t tell me about, then they are from Launceston in Tasmania.

  2. Everett True says:
    April 28, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    I sit, corrected.

  3. Hannah Golightly says:
    April 28, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    I accept gifts too :-)

  4. Kevin H. says:
    April 29, 2011 at 8:03 am

    I’ll send you a t-shirt, CD, and a link to a digital download of The Fun Police’s CD. Send me your address. In the meantime, both you, and your readers can help themselves to a sampler CD we have up at our site. No money, No email req’d.

    http://bit.ly/fnq4Pt

    –Kevin, STM

  5. Conan Neutron says:
    April 30, 2011 at 2:33 am

    Absolutely hilarious, and kind of awesome.
    We in Victory and Associates will put together a package. If nothing else to give that adorable child his own “Turn Down The Guitars” shirt.

    And hey, if you wanted to write something (good or bad) about our Kickstarter campaign to put our awesome new full length out on 180 Gram vinyl (http://www.thesethingsarefacts.com), well… if you wanted to do that, it’d be great.

    I’m just going to leave this money over here on this table for a minute, I hope I don’t forget it, I’m so forgetful.

    http://www.thesethingsarefacts.com
    http://www.victoryandassociates.net

  6. Wally says:
    May 3, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Isaac is well on his way to becoming a model as well as a musician.

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