AFIN Music Blog Directory

Things have been a bit quiet around here at A Future in Noise lately. Or, well, in blogland-terms rather, where posts every-other-day are the norm and if there's nothing new for a week people start to wonder whether something has gone horribly wrong! Aside from being in the process of heading off to the Bay Area and setting up a record label (Vulpiano Records - but more on that after it fully launches!), I've also just finished cooking up something especially for you:

AFIN Blog Directory for Music Submissions

This is a directory of 300+ hand(mouse?)-picked music blogs and magazine-style websites that accept music submissions for review, for the use of independent musicians and labels to help them reach more ears, as well as anyone looking for more music blogs to check out. It was published with Issuu, which is a lovely magazine-style publishing engine for your documents, PDFs, Open Office files, and whatnot - highly recommended!

Also included is a brief summary of tips for those submitting music as well as owners of music/sites blogs to make this process as friendly and simple as possible for maximum effectiveness. While containing many of the blogs listed at MOG, Hype Machine, and Elbows, it also consists of many outside of those directories and specifically only those that invite submissions via e-mail, post, or SoundCloud. This is Version 4.0 - some trial versions were sent out and made available to a limited extent elsewhere a few months ago, though this is the first that's gone totally "live" - if you have any suggestions for music blogs not in the directory that allow for submissions to be sent in, let me know in the comments or via e-mail: marilynroxie@gmail.com This is still in some ways an experimental version, and will be more exhaustive in scope in the next full update of it, likely winter/spring 2010.

I hope this is useful to artists/labels and anyone checking it out has fun browsing around - feedback would be lovely!