David Maldonado started Boom Boom Chik in October 2008. Since then, with the sporadic help from some musically eclectic friends, we’ve been boppin’ our heads on a daily basis to new music from across the globe.  We try to focus on the small guys because we know how easy it is to have good music go unnoticed these days.

Radio Morillo has been writing for BoomBoomChik since November 2008. A classically trained vocalist, she began her music career at age eleven when she recorded an entire acapella album and submitted it to Shakira’s record label in hopes of stardom. She’s performed in New York City and her writing has been featured in Southeast Asia’s premier music publication Junk Magazine. When not writing, she posts song covers of bossa nova and jazz standards on YouTube to keep herself young. Follow Radio Morillo on Twitter (@radiomorillo)

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Guidelines we kindly ask you guys to follow when submitting to us:

Digital submissions are preferred (email submit [at] boomboomchik [dot] com), but I don’t hate getting cool new music to check out, so if snail mail is necessary please send to.

Dave Maldonado
213 Taaffe Pl, apt#217
Brooklyn, NY 11205

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1. Please address the blogger you are targeting. If you think Jemex would be interested in your band because he wrote about Chilly Gonzales and that’s the kind of music you guys do, then Jemex is your guy. If you think Radio Morillo would dig some Latin fusion punk ala Manu Chao because she wrote about him last December, please address it to her. Do a search in our search toolbar above and type in “Jemex” or “Radio Morillo”. Check out what we write about and tailor your release accordingly. Please include the writer’s name in the subject of your email submission.

2. Please include all pertinent information about the band in the email, including music genre. Please make our job easier by telling us who the band is. If Ms. XYZ is performing in NYC in July and sends us a calendar but doesn’t include any other information like song samples and a short bio, what are we supposed to do with that?

3. Please include a JPEG or two of the band for use in our posts. Make sure they are good quality can be enlarged or made small as needed. If it gets super pixelated when enlarged, it’s not good.

4. Follow BoomBoomChik on Twitter and Facebook and engage with us; leave a comment on our posts. If you guys like what we write, let us know! If you think there’s a band we should be checking out, let us know. Just don’t spam our inbox and not even try to follow up and develop a relationship. If it’s evident you guys don’t read our blog, we can’t help you.

5. Short and sweet press releases please. Keep the important info in two – three paragraphs, include contact information, JPEGs, links, sound samples (or MP3s so we can put up on the page, specify whether you want it streamable and/not downloable).

We appreciate you guys for sending us music, we really do. We are both musicians AND music fans and in many cases we spread the word about cool finds we get in our inbox, but we need your help. In order to keep up writing about cool, new music, we need to have all of this information readily available.