Rising Stars In Music

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Hey all, as some of you may know I am the head journalist for a new magazine called Rising Stars In Music.

It was started by one of my best friends last year, and through an amazing series of chance meetings, unlikely circumstances, and more luck than anyone can hope to have we have become quite well known in certain musical circles, especially in the Nashville area, and we're not even yet published.

Basically we're different than most other magazines because we only print what we get directly from personal interviews with the artists or writers, absolutely no gossip or rumors (unless the artist themselves spread it :smallwink: ). We focus on vocalists, bands, musicians and song writers of all genres who have little or no recognition, but also have several famous artists within each as well that tell their stories and give pointers to those who want to make it big.

In fact, if any of you are aspiring musicians or song writers of some kind we'd love to hear from you as well. Doesn't matter how little experience you have.

However, though we have the magazine complete and ready to print, we are still looking for others to advertise with us and get it off the ground. If you, your company, or anyone you know might have an interest please message me and I'll be glad to send you a press kit with all the details.

If you click below you can take a look at our MySpace that we're using until our official website is complete. Have thousands of artists there, but we take the time to look at each one and listen to their music.


http://tinyurl.com/27xg42 (http://tinyurl.com/38333j)
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Btw, hope this is in the forum rules as I'm not actually asking for money or anything.

[InaVegt]

I'd love to read such a magazine, especially with such a great writer as you as a journalist.

As for whether it is allowed to advertise for it here, I'll quite the rules about advertising and highlight parts.


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So, basically, if you're not commercial, you're in the clear.

The best thing, however, would've been to ask the mods first.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Heh, well, we're not commercial... yet, actually have to make some money first, and we do feature special articles for charities within.

Still likely no koshur so I'll contact an admin.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Well, haven't heard back from anyone, so for right now I'm going to treat this as allowable :smallwink:

[SDF]

All my best friends are musicians, myself included. Some of my friends are in a punk band. One of my best friends is in the punk band but also has a distinctly different side project called I, Human (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=290797532). I have another friend, Mark, who has a solo project and an EP coming out. (www.markdoubleday.com) He plays kind of an acoustic, indie sound. He's also a cello prodigy, so I use him for my solo stuff.

As for myself I have a twee pop/post rock solo project in the works called I Think I Can. I write/arrange/play most everything sans a few instruments I don't know (i.e. frettless string instruments) Nothing recorded yet, but a decent amount written. My biggest hurtle right now is finding musicians to play live with me. I've got the basic drummer/bassist/guitarist filled if and when I need them, but I integrate a lot of horns (trumpet, trombone, french horn) and occasionally the bagpipes. Tracking them on recordings is easy enough, but I sure can't sing while playing them. I also play some keyboard and synth. If anyone cares I'm sure I'll make a big fuss when I have stuff up.

Coincidentally, next semester I'm living with my friend Mark, another of our friends who is a bassist, and another who is a drummer... So we will have a full band just sitting around the apartment :P