**IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING TO BOOMBOOMCHIK, PLEASE READ THIS ISH**
Hey peeps,
Full disclosure: I am a communications specialist. I also do some work in public relations – NOT in the entertainment industry, I work with civic engagement non-profits and foundations – so I understand the need to get hits for clients however any PR professional knows the key to developing a relationship with a writer, blogger, or journalist is by understanding that writer’s needs.
So this morning I go into BoomBoomChik’s inbox and I am seeing a lot of the same thing: “Hey guys”, “Hi Staff” in addressing us, and the subject line doesn’t tell me anything about the band except “FREE DOWNLOAD of XYZ”, “XYZ’s new music video” followed by some long ass press release. Seldom do we find folks giving us the information we WANT – what genre, links and/or attachments to band information. Some people will send us a Soundcloud link and then we have to go onto Google to look up the band’s bio. That’s not cool.
Furthermore, there are currently two writers on BoomBoomChik: myself (Radio Morillo) and Jemex. Please do a search on our site to see previous posts and it’ll give you a gist of what each of us write. You can also do a search for “Bixo do Coco” and you will view some of my posts (I used to write under “Bixo do Coco” before I changed to “Radio Morillo”).
So here are some guidelines we kindly ask you guys to follow when submitting to us:
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.
Q: How do I submit music to BoomBoomChik?
If you got what it takes, please visit our “About” page and peep the contact info.
Peace and love,
BoomBoomChik Team
(NOTE: Jemex and Radio Morillo are NOT music industry PR professionals. We are musicians and bloggers. We do not represent any of the artists that are featured on this blog. We get our info the same way you guys do: through friends, FB posts, iTunes, and inbox submissions on the behalf of music artists.)