Yesterday, I shared the importance of reaching out to music blogs and suggested some search engine tricks to find them. But there is another way to find just the right music bloggers - free music blog directories. Most are self created or curated by volunteers which means that they are less then complete. Thus you may also want to do your own research.
- Music Blog Directory
- Yo, Check This Jam
- Digital Meltdown
- Total Fuzzy
- Blog Flux Music Blogs
- Blog Catalog
Yesterday Hypebot reader Hit Singularity also smartly suggested: "A great tool for finding blogs to write
about your band is Hype Machine. They have a list of almost 1500 blogs, ranked by influence. The full list is here: http://hypem.com/list You can also use the main search engine on Hype Machine to find blogs that have reviewed similar artists to you and then reach out to those blogs.
I suggest developing lists of bloggers by region and your genre and reaching out to them regularly. Whatever method you use to find the right blogs, there is no question that they are the great equlaizer, providing important exposure to artists and labels with limited budgets.
Tomorrow: How to approach bloggers.
