If a band or label wants to submit a CD, whats the best way of doing it?
First off, pick up a copy of AP. If you don’t see at least one band being covered somewhere in the magazine that you would compare yourselves to, don’t bother sending the CD in. Like I said before, I get buckets of CDs from jazz musicians, folk artists, pop R&B singers… These people have no idea who AP is, and are just wasting postage sending me their CD. So make sure your band would fit inside the pages of AP before sending it in! Secondly, I don’t need fancy press kits, random swag or anything else (although sometimes snacks are nice); just send me your music with a brief bio/fact sheet included. If I need to know more, I’ll do research on my own. I don’t care about what you look like; I don’t care about what other members of the press have written about you; I don’t care about what shows you’ve played. It’s always about the music.
