For the readers
The Muse in Music is an independently-owned music webzine created in January 2009. Owners are Patrick and Fred, from Dallas, Texas. Content includes work by Melissa, Desiree, Tobias, Sally, Nastia and Amber.
You’ll find no holding companies here, or corporate affiliations. No distribution agreements or shady benefactors. Yes, we advertise, and we might even turn a profit one day. In 10-12 years. We write about music we like: straight-up indie, marquee alt-rock, folk, the heavy stuff, the noisy stuff, post-rock, modern classical, some electronica. If you’re looking for up-to-date news on Radiohead, Arcade Fire, or Beirut, we’re doing our best. If you’re looking for regular Tuesday reviews, Thursday interviews, or Monday concert write-ups, probably not. But if you’re looking to hear from three music zealots who tend to play things by ear, please pull up a seat. You’re in exactly the right place. (By the way, are we missing someone? If so, drop us a line at submissions@themuseinmusic.com and let us know.)
For the PR firms
Please only send submissions to submissions@themuseinmusic.com. Sending emails to all four of our published addresses does not increase your odds for a review by four. Quite the contrary, it’s a little annoying.
Please listen to some of our featured bands before submitting artists for review. Not all electronica is created equal. Just saying.
Please only send links to streaming copies. This website is made possible by three friends screwing around at their day jobs, so we’d rather not clutter our office servers with music downloads. It’s also quicker that way. Submissions missing a link to music streams will be deleted.
In the absence of a returned email, please only write us once.
We’re also going to ask you for some perspective. If Rolling Stone just named your client emperor for a year, there’s not much need to reach out to us. Or if your client just now made their track list official, good for them. We aren’t Wikipedia, and readers don’t consult us like some sort of cloud oracle. They want to hear stuff. So send us stuff to hear. Because that, like the Hokey Pokey, is what it’s all about.
For the bands
You’re outstanding, right? Then by all means drop us a line. Please read the above first.
Updated May 18, 2012.
Hey guys, just wanted to let you know I added your link to my blog…hope that is okay. Vicky
Finally a blog worth reading. Good job! For a modest attempt at music theory blogging, feel free to stop by my page. Have a great day.
Hyperlink?
[...] What is tMiM? « The Muse In Music “A year-old music blog. (Wow, time flies.) Dallas based, but needs a transfer to Montreal, stat. First to scoop “Creep” by Radiohead. OK, scratch that: like I said, they’ve only been doing this a year. But if Radiohead ever records a second track named “Creep,” they will definitely scoop that one. No affiliation with the prog-rock band Muse, especially after The Resistance. Contributors are co-workers Patrick and Fred, the lives of whom are otherwise so packed to the gills that you should have no doubt that The Muse encroaches on their work day. They only really agree on Deftones; Fred otherwise describes Patrick’s musical interests as “strum strum hippie yodel.” Just as Patrick describes Fred’s as “terrible.” Yet somehow the two reach a daily armistice; the written, ever-evolving text of which is known regionally as The Muse in Music.” (tags: musicblog free mp3) [...]
really nice collection of good music – enjoyed and will be back soon.
cheers – g.
Hey very nice work folks, I am enjoying the blog a lot! Hope all is well.
Rob
Absent Sound
Hi MiM !!
… Simply … thank you very, very much !!!
(Not enough english vocabulary to tell you how we’re happy !!)
Take care !
E.B
cool list. thanks a lot guys!