Comments on: Quick Chat with CMJ

By: reviral candiotti

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By: Jazz-elle

Jazz-elle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:06:18 +0000

I am so thankful I saved myself from yet another delusion.
Thanks to everyone who added their comments. I look forward to add mine to events I paid to be reviewed but got baited and switched on. Hey you “entrepreneurs” out there, us artists are going to get tired of you making money off our submissions real fast.

Fooey.

By: Eat The Weeds

Eat The Weeds — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:52:31 +0000

I find interviews like this extremely helpful. More please.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:34:06 +0000

You guys are a joke. You are doing this for the money!!!

Over 1,100 bands at 60 different venues over 5 nights.

Give me a break, even if you are a band that performs at this event the odds of you being seen by anyone that matters is about as good as hitting the lotto.

And let me say, your selection processes is a joke as well. There is so much politics with your event you should bury your head between your knees when you come on here with this staged promo that is supposed to sound like an interview that is nothing but a promotion to suck more bands in to paying money to enter, and then travel to your event that will mean nothing to 99% of the bands that are performing because no one that matters will see them.

It’s all about how much money you can make, which says it all about your event.

If you were serious about what you were doing as a benefit to artists you would have one venue featuring 10 bands each night doing a 20 minute set of their best songs.

You would have all the industry people attending in one Venue so any band that performs can be seen. Not the way you’re doing it to put as many bands as you can fit in every club in the city to line your pockets with cash!!!

But it is obvious this has become nothing but a money making opportunity for you at the expense of artists that don’t realize they have a slim to none chance of being seen by someone in the industry that matters.

And instead of naming all the artists that made it in the industry that happened to play at your event at one time or another. Why don’t you be honest and name the artists signed based on their appearing at your event. Funny how that number would probably be in the single digits, if any, for a 20 plus year event when you do that.

GREED AND MONEY IS ALL YOU AND YOUR EVENT ARE ABOUT… AND YOUR DOUBLE TALK IS A JOKE.

IT’S ASHAME ARTISTS ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR FEAR OF BEING BLACK LISTED. WHAT A SCAM YOU ARE RUNNING!!!

By: D-Funk

D-Funk — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:36:42 +0000

Very informative to have the decision-maker’s own perspective on this. My take on it is that he describes sort of a catch-22 scenario. You do small gigs in your own market, but if you don’t get gigs outside your own market because you get no gigs big enough to be publicized outside of it and drive you out there, less likely for a CMJ selection. Getting bigger gigs seems to me a more preferable goal than the pay to play scenario any way. Personally I’d rather be invited to play at CMJ as opposed to paying to enter a listening contest. Still, I guess the thrill of being selected is extremely appealing. As an artist, I have to suspect the only music from an “unknown band” that will blow away Mr. McDonald et. al. will be in the style they already like/listen to, or are at least familiar and comfortable with having in the CMJ line up. I’d be surprised at any significant departures.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:13:58 +0000

Hi
My band was recently not selected for the florida music festival and i was wondering when trying to get accepted into a festival or function lke this what is the best way to make your self known to the selectors to improve my chances of getting accepted?

By: skye ocean

skye ocean — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:30:54 +0000

I enjoyed the interview and found it helpful. As I suspected an over 40 singer songwriter has no hope in these events. However when I started clicking on past winners on your site, every epk was de-activated. I tried about 20 randomly until I got annoyed enough to write this note.