“They have been promoting and covering interesting and underrated artists for as long as I can remember, with a commitment and art that you’d normally associate with articles on larger acts. They’ve always made me feel at home in the world as an artist.” – JPH, 2021.
“A wonderfully ambitious and truly independent music blog.” – Anar Badalov, 2022.
Thanks for your interest in Independent Clauses! Independent Clauses is a website that reviews undiscovered music, run by Stephen Carradini with Lisa Whealy writing. We currently cover instrumental music of all varieties, focusing on neo-classical, post-dub electro, progressive house, and acoustic post-rock.
We are not currently accepting submissions with lyrics from artists we have not covered before. (Melismatics are cool, though.)
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You can submit work at indieclauses@gmail.com in the below format:
Subject line: [Please include the word “instrumental” in your subject line somewhere]
Introduction,
Where are you from? What is your genre? What are you promoting? How long (in songs) is the EP or album? What are two or three artists you sound like? How did you find Independent Clauses? (Did someone refer you? Did you find us through another blog?) Make sure to link to your website in here, preferably hyperlinked to your band name.
Title
Release Date/Release Label (if any, self-released is 100% cool)
Streaming Link(s)
Download Link (I vastly prefer download codes from Bandcamp)
Single? Available to post?
Purchase links, if you want me to post them
Any other info
Outro sentence
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Thank you for adhering to this style.
Please do not send individual files in an email. Spotify, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Google Drive, or other streaming/download platforms are accepted.
Due to the volume of submissions received via email, I cannot guarantee a response to your query. If you have any questions, comments or problems with the submission process, please e-mail me (Stephen Carradini) at indieclauses@gmail.com.
I am very happy that I found your blog. Keep up the good work.
I am very happy that I found your blog. Keep up the good work.
I’m the singer of a Tulsa band called Ithica. A writer from the Oklahoma rock blog suggested that you might be interested in reviewing our recent album. The urban Tulsa reviewed it last month as well. If you are interested you can download the album with this link.
http://ithicamusic.com/downloads/ithica_ithica.zip
If you have any questions feel free to write back at theuselessmetaphors@yahoo.com
Thanks
Damion
Just found this blog through Pillowhead and I love it! I am also a music journalist. If ever you’re looking to increase your staff with a long distance member, contact me please!
Hey Stephen,
Thanks for the kind and honest review. We appreciate you taking the time to give our cd a good listen. Site looks great and thank you for writing about music.
Sincerely,
Jared
Hello, just wanted to say thank you for writing about my project i guess back in October 04 (Ledaswan). On the song Closure Maybe, which was later released in 07 with full band that was the beginnings of much music and growing to come. Firstly want to thank you for the kind review and I wanted to leave you a link to download our current album NUM83R5 for possible review. I hope all is well and thank you again. P.S we will be coming to OK soon.
Erica – Ledaswan
link to our new album http://www.ledaswan.net/numbers.php
Stephen is the greatest writer of all times!
Thanks for reviewing “Repeat the Sounding Joy.” I play keyboards in the band. It means a great deal to have a serious/thoughtful review.
You’re welcome! I’m all about helping out bands with real reviews.
Really nice blog/website. Great things happening here.