Surfgitar
Joined: Mar 16, 2007
Posts: 1342
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 01:48 PM
When your local paper lists your upcomming gigs in their entertainment section, under what genre do they list your band? Our local paper always puts us under the heading Pop. Normally I don't give a crap, but all this talk about 3rd and 4th waves got me thinking and analyzing and scrutinizing. So I noticed when an Irish band comes to town (very infrequently) the newspaper creates the heading Irish. This inspired me to write the following letter to our entertainment editors:
_April 25, 2009
To whom it may concern:
For starters, a note of thanks for all the listings in Showtime you've provided our band. Those really contribute nicely to the large turnouts we receive at our gigs. With that said, I have a special request. What's the possibility of listing our music under its proper genre? Normally we're listed under pop. But instrumental surf is its own recognized genre.
The reason I mention this is I've noticed when Irish bands come to town, they're listed under the heading of Irish. So would it be possible to list our style under Surf? While there are two sub-genres of surf, namely surf-pop and surf-rock (and we play both) just the heading of surf would do the trick - much in the way the category Irish is understood by your readers.
Thank you for this consideration.
Best regards,
Frank Ferraro
Left Guitarist
Cutback
www.cutbacksurfband.com
frank@cutbacksurfband.com_
So what do your local publications do?
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 01:54 PM
Our local publications list shows by date and venue and a short(venue provided) blurb about the bands playing. The venue rarely mentions the band genres.
We have the Stranger and Seattle Weekly for our music listing goodness. The big local papers(now paper) doesn't list local gigs.
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zak
Joined: Sep 24, 2007
Posts: 2728
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 02:20 PM
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Tuck
Joined: Sep 02, 2006
Posts: 3166
Denver, CO
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 02:26 PM
I believe in Denver it's considered particularly flattering if they get the address of the bar right.
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surferXmatt
Joined: Aug 27, 2008
Posts: 1570
New York
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 02:29 PM
Nice one Zak, haha. 
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5309
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 02:55 PM
carol,
post industrial techno-goth metal goddess
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Pappa_Surf
Joined: Oct 28, 2008
Posts: 671
Winnipeg, Canada
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 05:43 PM
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DennistheMenace
Joined: Dec 29, 2007
Posts: 714
Southeast, Florida
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Posted on Apr 24 2009 06:35 PM
Well Gang, Good Luck on trying to get thru to your local Papers, especially with a 'boatload' of them closing their doors. Down here, the big ones such as the Miami Herald and the Sun Sentinnel are in BIG Financial trouble. Do you think they are going to worry about categorizing correctly for local bands in the neigborhood? No, and that's including the Smaller Papers too.
I only say this while still trying to figure out how MaDonna
got inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame last year....
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WhorehayRFB
Joined: Jun 12, 2008
Posts: 3331
Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted on Apr 27 2009 01:02 PM
I vaguely recall a venue listing my old band on their website as "heavy country," a phrase I have never heard before or since...not as cool as "Norwegian thrash post-industrial gothic-influenced viking doom metal" by any means, though...
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