A little press for me (share your accolades here as well)
  • songsillinoissongsillinois
    A canadian online radio/podcasting site used my blog, Swedesplease, as a reference and wrote a little something nice about me on their page. There is a Swedish music podcast up now on this site - Radio Libre - featuring bands from Swedesplease.

    Here's a link - was supposed to go live at 2pm so it may or may not be up

    http://www.radiolibre.ca/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=hspitzer5e
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    The Uk bloggers chart I did a while back got mention on BBC radio a while back but apart from that nothing really - it seems you guys in the US get a lot more love in the mainstream press. Although it'd be nice to get love/respect from them - music bloggers saying my site is good means a lot more.
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    the accolade that I love the most was from my brother:

    "you remind me of the young john peel, if the young john peel's heart was replaced with that of a robot and he was given a broadband connection"

    that means a lot!

    Gorilla Vs Bear got quoted in National UK Newspaper the Guardian a while back, talking about Broken Social Scene
  • BlinkableBlinkable
    I never knew about your site 'Swedesplease', I love the Swedes, and linked you from my site. Cheers.
  • shannonpshannonp
    I think my biggest publicity was here: http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-12/01.shtml
    Of course my '15 minutes' was only by my association with someone sorta famous, not because my blog was so great :-)
  • bethannebethanne
    my friend - who is in a major band in my local area - reads my blog on a regular basis and met me in person and told me how much he loved it. (well, funny story: he ended up becoming one of my best friends in town. go figure!) but there hasn't been enough press for clever titles are so last summer.

    however, i'm trying (i.e. procrastinating) to send a list of favorite things to my local alternative newspaper and see if it gets published and they realize "oh! it's a lansing blogger!" and go from there.
  • chromewaveschromewaves
    Let's see, nominated for four "Bloggies" since 2004, deemed "Webby-Worthy" last year, finalist in Canadian Blog Awards, finalist in Reader's Choice Best Blog - eye magazine, nominated Best Music Blog in 2005 LiveDaily awards...

    you'll note I've never won a goddam thing...
  • bethannebethanne
    hon, i voted for you this year and i hope you win. and if not, i'll beat people up for you.
  • EF MattEF Matt
    frank you've won the hearts of readers everywhere!
    ;)

    but wait, you ARE going to Amsterdam right?
  • chromewaveschromewaves
    oh yeah. THAT.
  • gorillavsbeargorillavsbear
    i've been mentioned a couple times in my local papers (dallas and detroit) but my coolest press mentions both happened today: USA Today's Pop Culture blog, and Sports Illustrated.com. both painfully mainstream, but still cool. to me at least. oh another one that i was really surprised by was when UK's The Guardian quoted me about a Broken Social Scene show, like i was some sort of expert. ha.
  • brandonbrandon
    every once in a while largehearted mentions elbo.ws and i feel warm inside.
  • dilviedilvie
    hehe, largehearted mentioned my Best of 2005 compilation. That made me smile. =)

    Gorillavsbear -- which blog do you run?
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    searching gorilla vs bear on google brings it up as the first result which is pretty cool!
  • largehearted boylargehearted boy
    I'm in the same boat, Frank, we've often been bridesmaids at the same weddings. I doubt if I'll win the PLUG award either, but that's okay...

    Speaking of Google, searching for "boy" brings up LHB as the fifth result. Somehow, that makes me happy.
  • sean gramophonesean gramophone
    we're number 5 for "said", which i think is pretty funny.
  • addieblueaddieblue
    for my blog relapse, if you type in Carrie Fisher relapse on google-my blog is #1 & #2 above prominent links to bi-polar & depression websites.

    They've got to be depressed about that. I would be. Ha!

    and- When Apes Rule The Earth! is once again #1 on Google way above those damn dirty apes links!!
  • anthony@hypemanthony@hypem
    LHB, it's cool to come up for 'boy', haha!

    <bragging>
    corner of some page in Q Magazine in the UK:
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    </bragging>
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    good job! I used to get Q every month. Then I started ready NME. Then I started a blog and stopped reading magazines altogether.

    If I see anything else in the UK press about any bloggers I make you aware of it here

    And by the way, search for "hype" and The Hype Machine is the forth result!
  • tim - thefaceoftodaytim - thefaceoftoday
    They had a piece on blogs in 'Word' Magazine (also in the UK) last month which bigged up music for robots ....
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    I reckon the music press will be reluctant to post about Music blogs - they are just doing for free what people are paying magazines to do - but with more regularity and in a way thats easier to recieve.

    What does everyone think?
  • sean gramophonesean gramophone
    Do you really see Take Your Medicine as replicating what, say, Plan B magazine does???
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    no way - point proven.

    then again - if NME told be about You aint no picasso/ Indie Mp3 / Largehearted boy - I'd probably stop buying it.

    But then again I probably wouldn't be buying NME in the first place because its rubbish.
  • tim - thefaceoftodaytim - thefaceoftoday
    ... yup .. NME was last good in about 1991 when the stone roses were on the cover and ... hang on .. I'm drifting back to being fifteen again!

    I think TYM is right. Once you have tasted the immediae nature of the net .. it's hard to go back ... but then you can't read the internet on the bog can you?
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    I can take my laptop and wireless connection to the bog yes. But then when you run of out toilet paper a floppy disk won't do much good.

    NME works well though - thats about all its good for.
  • Taylor/ Music/ AntsTaylor/ Music/ Ants
    I was mentioned on steregum on my sixth week as a blogger which got me 800 hits in a couple of hours. I've also got a couple of mentions from Largehearted Boy (thanks!),

    For google, if you type "music for kids who can't read good" i own the first three spots (like anyone would ever google that). but I also come up at about any variation of those words (music for kids to read, kids music who read good, etc...)
  • tim - thefaceoftodaytim - thefaceoftoday
    blogging on the bog .. nice ;)
  • largehearted boylargehearted boy
    There has been a decent amount of music blog press both in newspapers and magazines worldwide the past couple of years, especially early last year.
  • muruchmuruch
    I've had a few artists email or comment to thank me for promoting their music, and a couple mentioned my blog or quoted me on their sites (Gabriela Kulka, Thunder Egg, Allison Crowe). Allison Crowe was the most recent example, and the coolest since I love her music so much and didn't have any contact with her before her manager commented on my blog. My boy discovered yesterday that her site now quotes me. This page: http://www.allisoncrowe.com/Hallelujahvideos.html has a snippet from my blog credited as "Muruch (USA)".
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