Exposure through blogs has developed into one of the best ways to get your music heard, but many blogs are often difficult or impossible to gain any kind of access to. Here we look at some of the best blogs to submit your work to, and how to best go about contacting them.
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Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0
Getting exposure for your music is the only way to grow your audience, and one of the best ways to do that is through music blogs. I’ve written about how to approach music bloggers in the past, but the fact of the matter is that one of the biggest chores in doing so is trying to find the appropriate bloggers in the first place. Luckily Ryan Harrell of Midination has done an excellent job of compiling 100 music blogs along with all the appropriate info needed to make a submission.
Not only that, he’s assembled a downloadable spreadsheet, and even finishes up with some excellent tips on the best way to submit your material in a way that gives it the best chance to be noticed. It’s really quite thorough, and Ryan deserves some accolades for doing an excellent job.
You’ll find an abbreviated example of the 100 music blogs below, but you’ll probably want to access the entire chart here.
Blog
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URL
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Genre
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SoundCloud
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Twitter
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Contact
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HypeMachine Followers
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Notes
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We Chill You | https://weraveyou.com | EDM | https://soundcloud.com/wechillyou | https://twitter.com/weraveyou | general@weraveyou.com | Not Listed | |
Gas Mask Magazine | http://www.gasmaskmagazine.com/ | Country, top 40 | NA | https://twitter.com/GasMaskMagazine | http://www.gasmaskmagazine.com/contact/ | Not Listed | Covers music only occassionaly; culture focused blog |
StereoFox | https://www.stereofox.com/ | Electronic, indie | https://soundcloud.com/wearestereofox/ | https://twitter.com/wearestereofox | https://www.stereofox.com/contact/ | 1822 | No EDM or commerical pop songs. Use the contact page and select ‘submit music’ |
Found | https://found.fyi/ | Indie, darkwave, independent rap, psych | https://soundcloud.com/user-64309414 | https://twitter.com/thisisfound/ | meggyn@found.fyi | Not Listed | Focused on people of color and women |
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching | http://www.dlnwmusic.com/ | Electronic, indie | https://soundcloud.com/dlnw | https://twitter.com/dlnwmusic | info@dlnwmusic.com | Not Listed | |
Sidekick Music | https://www.sidekick-music.com/ | Electronic | https://soundcloud.com/sidekick-music | https://twitter.com/LaSidekickMusic | music@sidekick-music.com | Not Listed | Doesn’t like festival EDM |
Indie Music Home | http://indiemusichome.com/ | Indie | https://twitter.com/ThisIsIndieHome | https://twitter.com/ThisIsIndieHome | http://indiemusichome.com/submit-music/ | Not Listed | |
Little Indie Blogs | http://littleindieblogs.blogspot.in/ | Indie | https://soundcloud.com/little-indie-blogs-1 | https://twitter.com/LittleIndieBlog | littleindieblogs@gmail.com | 779 | Follow submission guidelines here: http://littleindieblogs.blogspot.in/2014/12/little-indie-blogs-submission-guidelines.html |
Louder Than War | http://louderthanwar.com/ | Indie | NA | https://twitter.com/louderthanwar | davebeech@louderthanwar.com | Not Listed | See new artist section here http://louderthanwar.com/contact/ |
Indie Underground | http://indieunderground.ca/ | Indie | NA | https://twitter.com/indieug | http://indieunderground.ca/submit-music | 704 | Submit only during specified timeframes |