Comments on The Motion Sick: Bad Music PR 1 #PRFail AKA I'd be thrilled if RHCP...

In defense of people doing PR, I realize that it's...

2009-09-02T09:33:39.031-07:00

In defense of people doing PR, I realize that it's a large-scale task and so there are often going to be "mistakes" and confusion about proper targeting. I just intend this as a sort of fun way to point out some of my experiences as a blogger receiving pitches and press releases. I think it is helpful, particularly for bands, to know what the process is like. Just as publicists send out 100s of e-mails a day, we receive as many. We literally only have seconds to make a decision about whether to further explore an artist and I elect to ignore a solid 80% of the messages we receive. That mostly results from bad targeting. Some, however, is from appropriate bands sending us e-mails like:

"We're The Noodle Doodles and we rock, check out our Myspace."

Not going to happen. I even wrote up some submission guidelines for Boston Band Crush:

http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/2008/01/6-ways-to-make-us-crush-on-you.html

this is great. i highly recommend publicists subsc...

2009-09-02T08:11:43.539-07:00

this is great. i highly recommend publicists subscribe to the blog/publication rss feed so you know it's current and you can also get an idea of what they cover through headlines. i'm guilty of sending the email about reading an article (which i have) but i may not make it through the entire blog--or even back to the front page if i have to pitch 100-200 contacts in one day.
also journos and bloggers should tell the publicist if they don't like the band--or ask to be taken off the list for that particular band--it could save a lot of email hassle on both ends (unless you get the pr company that doesn't listen--and that's another story entirely)

I know nothing about the band and have not listene...

2009-09-01T23:33:20.826-07:00

I know nothing about the band and have not listened to them, so I have no opinion on the description, but you can find them at http://www.groundsoundmusic.com/

Let me know what you think!

What's the name of the band that sounds like RHCP ...

2009-09-01T22:20:35.140-07:00

What's the name of the band that sounds like RHCP ate Phish? They may offend your sensibilities but I'd actually
like to give them a listen.

TL
http://jamtopia.com

P.S. Love your blog. I read it all the time ;)