Submissions

Crooked Forest Media remains committed to offering free submissions for bands and artists who wish to be featured on our website.

We focus primarily on Canadian-based acts, but are open to those from outside of Canada as well. Currently we offer 3 feature options: New Releases, Interview & Live Show Coverage.

New Releases

Open to all music genres but we specialize in rock, punk, folk and singer-songwriter. These are brief features with just the most relevant info & links to streaming or purchase. Artists who receive a new release feature are encouraged to appy for a future interview.

Interviews

As independent artist ourselves, we’re no stranger to submitting ourselves to blogs for interviews to try and draw some attention to our projects. What we found was that most music interview sites for indie’s seem to use the same cookie-cutter 8-question interviews that are in no way tailored to each artist. It left us feeling unfulfilled and discouraged.

And so we began to do our own.

You can view our previous interviews for a sense of how we curate ours. First time interviews are conducted over e-mail.

Live Show Coverage

We’re moving away from online-only connections and getting back to those warm fuzzy face-to-face interactions.

Want us to come to your show, shoot some photos and write about the gig? Rad, we’d love that.

Send us an invite and let us know when/where you’ll be.

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As we offer our features and services for free, we encourage you to make a donation which directly funds our website operations and service offerings. We appreciate your support.

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Okay, I’m ready to submit!

If you’d like to be considered for a feature all you have to do is send me an e-mail with all the required information. The more time ahead of your release (if you’re showcasing something brand new) the better, but if you just pulled something out of your 20-year old archive, don’t shy away either. Submissions that don’t include all the required information will not receive a response.

Here’s What I Need
  1. Type of Submission (Interview, Live Show Coverage, New Release)
  2. Artist Name
  3. Brief Artist Bio
  4. Album Submission URL or Streaming Link (No timed links, please. I almost definitely won’t get to them before the URL expires).
  5. Your Social Media Links (if none, they will not be included in your feature).
  6. A link to a high-res image of your band or a logo

E-mail us at crookedforestmedia[at]gmail.com with your info and we’ll be in touch!

And please don’t hesitate to tell your friends about us so that we can continue to grow our little forest.

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