X-Static Records

So often in today’s music scene, where the independent artist is so common, we are seeing more and more “failures to communicate” because some of these unmanaged artists have no sense of professionalism when it comes to contacting industry professionals.

We recently spoke on this very subject at a music industry panel discussion and ALL of our colleagues agreed that they have faced this so many times themselves.

If you are an independent artist that chooses to not use a manager for interaction with industry professionals, then PLEASE learn how to communicate in a professional/respectful way before you contact us.  We all know it’s not impossible to find a way to contact someone at a record label or booking agency… it’s HOW you contact them that you need to consider!!!

If you are one of those artists that is sending a MySpace message sounding something like “Yo dawg, my joints are hott and you gotta go check my shit cuz it is tight and I’m the hottest thing in Hotlanta right now!”, let me break the news to you… you are not given the first thought of being a serious artist that we in the industry will waste our time to go to your MySpace page!

Also, if you are going to take the time to contact people in the industry and you want us to take time to pay attention to you… then PLEASE pay attention to us!  IF we have explicit instructions on how to submit a demo, then follow those instructions!!!  If we take the time to write up step-by-step instructions on how we want to be contacted, and you completely ignore those instructions and just find any possible way to email us, why would we want to work with an artist that cannot listen?

Music industry professionals have been doing this for a long time and many of these steps have been perfected through trial and error over the years.  You are obviously reaching out to industry people for a reason… so if you’re going to contact us… listen to us!!!

We welcome your comments on this issue as it is one that we are very passionate about!