Comments on: Listen up! http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/listen-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=listen-up Miami Valley's Arts, Culture & News Weekly Tue, 21 May 2013 06:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tim http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/listen-up/comment-page-1/#comment-33703 Tim Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:58:59 +0000 http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/?p=13747#comment-33703 Shocker: Bands on radar of writers for free, local alt-weekly get coverage on the two or three pages devoted to local music each week when there are dozens of events going on. Shocker: Bands or promoters that send press releases, emails, invites to shows garner coverage. Shocker: Bands gets butt-hurt over not being covered despite not exercising all available options to reach writers get overlooked. You are right Spex, what a disservice. Glad you pointed it out. Shocker: Bands on radar of writers for free, local alt-weekly get coverage on the two or three pages devoted to local music each week when there are dozens of events going on.

Shocker: Bands or promoters that send press releases, emails, invites to shows garner coverage.

Shocker: Bands gets butt-hurt over not being covered despite not exercising all available options to reach writers get overlooked.

You are right Spex, what a disservice. Glad you pointed it out.

]]> By: David Likens http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/listen-up/comment-page-1/#comment-33701 David Likens Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:40:22 +0000 http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/?p=13747#comment-33701 I see all these people at shows. Sounds like the "poor me" card, Spex. I see all these people at shows. Sounds like the “poor me” card, Spex.

]]> By: Gregory A. Peck http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/listen-up/comment-page-1/#comment-33700 Gregory A. Peck Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:09:42 +0000 http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/?p=13747#comment-33700 Any musician desirous of press can learn a simple lesson in Dayton, especially if you happen to want GREAT press, the easiest and fastest route to achieve such a feat is to simply, get ready for this, become the press. Does this destroy the integrity of the reporting? If any of you are expecting to receive a certain breed of objective, professional, and/or ethical reporting you couldn't be any further away from it than picking up the DCP. Advertising dollars are top priority, and I think the writers write solely for the interest of their careerism or some kind of further advancement or limelight. Any musician desirous of press can learn a simple lesson in Dayton, especially if you happen to want GREAT press, the easiest and fastest route to achieve such a feat is to simply, get ready for this, become the press.

Does this destroy the integrity of the reporting? If any of you are expecting to receive a certain breed of objective, professional, and/or ethical reporting you couldn’t be any further away from it than picking up the DCP. Advertising dollars are top priority, and I think the writers write solely for the interest of their careerism or some kind of further advancement or limelight.

]]> By: Spex Mcghee http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/listen-up/comment-page-1/#comment-33691 Spex Mcghee Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:51:41 +0000 http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/?p=13747#comment-33691 It must be nice to be able to put your own band in every list and issue you want. Most of the time my band can't even get listed in the upcoming shows section... We were told by one DCP writer that if we wanted to be in the paper, we needed to let him know 2 MONTHS in advance, and even then, he couldn't promise we would be in. I'm not playing the "poor me" card, I'm just saying that there are dozens of bands playing every week in Dayton, yet the only ones that get press are directly connected to the authors. The article begins "If you've spent any time observing the Dayton music scene..." THESE PEOPLE DO NOT GO OUT AND SEE SHOWS; they just write about their friends. It must be nice to be able to put your own band in every list and issue you want. Most of the time my band can’t even get listed in the upcoming shows section… We were told by one DCP writer that if we wanted to be in the paper, we needed to let him know 2 MONTHS in advance, and even then, he couldn’t promise we would be in. I’m not playing the “poor me” card, I’m just saying that there are dozens of bands playing every week in Dayton, yet the only ones that get press are directly connected to the authors. The article begins “If you’ve spent any time observing the Dayton music scene…” THESE PEOPLE DO NOT GO OUT AND SEE SHOWS; they just write about their friends.

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