Band submission procedure

THE BAND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE WAS UPDATED IN SEPTEMBER 2008. PLEASE READ BELOW.

We appreciate your support helping us to be a comprehensive and up-to-date website. As a consequence we constantly have a huge order backlog for submissions. Please read this instructions and try to implement the requirements. It will help to speed up the process.

Please suggest only bands/artists which have a signed status. This means either a physical item like CD/DVD/Vinyl for sale on demand must be available and/or complete albums for download are offered via services like CD Baby and similar. Otherwise please use the PA forum topic Unsigned Bands where site monitors take care of business.

You have two options for submitting a band/artist for the inclusion on this website

1) open up a new thread in the Suggest Bands and Artists forum topic. If you want to point out audio samples please be sure that you only provide legal links for mp3 download or streaming like MySpace pages for example. Site monitors are picking up your suggestions

2) collect sound samples and other helpful information, as stated below. Create a ZIP or RAR archive with all this included, upload it to a free filesharing service (RAPIDSHARE.com is actually recommended because very fast all around the globe) and finally forward the download link to band.submissions@gmail.com as well as your explanation of why this band/artist should be added to ProgArchives and in which sub-genre

• necessary information
  please provide some full songs (no clips/excerpts) with acceptable quality (not less than 128 k/bits) for evaluation and streaming. If you want to send a promo CD you'll get back a reply containing a valid postal address. These samples will of course only made available for streaming with permission from copyright holders.
  
  
• helpful information
  - website, MySpace as well as other related links with useful informations or reviews
  - band biography (in english)
  - an artist picture with a scale of 500 pixel as possible
  - the complete band/artist discography (album titles, cover art, line-up, tracklisting plus track times) as possible

Once the email has arrived, the Band Submissions Team will check the information and forward the request to the prefered sub-genre team which will evaluate then.
Please use this email address only for submitting bands for inclusion. Inquiries about the progress or other issues will be ignored.

When a band is added PA collaborators will inform about this here http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=63
We are also working on a transparent workflow where ProgArchives members can follow up the evaluation process.

Thanks for contributing!

Rivertree (Uwe Zickel)
Band Submissions Team band.submissions@gmail.com
September 2008

Edited by ExittheLemming - September 22 2012 at 18:32