Site Policy Change
After rejecting yet another talented and unheard band because that little box on their MySpace profile had a label name in it, The Hippodrome will now officially accept musicians for feature consideration who are signed to a label. Before you file The Hippodrome under the “generic mp3 blog” header in your reader, consider this: even though we’re now accepting “signed” bands, the focus on unknown and previously unpromoted musicians will now by stronger than ever.
This is because, as many of you have pointed out, being “signed” means almost nothing in this day and age. We feel that by not considering artists on unknown labels with little or no commercial backing, this blog was perpetuating an aspect of the music industry that it had (at least nominally) disparaged. Truly independent labels can be a wonderful community and resource for fledgling musicians, and The Hippodrome, of all blogs, doesn’t want to discourage this.
So while this change in operating procedure may take a few weeks to hammer out, we’re all looking forward to hearing music that we had previously forbade ourselves from considering. As always, email editor[at]thehippodrome.org with music to be considered. If you have any questions or suggestions about this, please also don’t hesitate to get in touch. And of course, artists with no label association will still be treated with the respect and consideration of those who are signed.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:00 am
It is good one for known about the site policy change.