Hi folks! Tonight, I feature a very impromptu Blog Carnival featuring some links from all around the web on different music topics. If you want to submit to the next carnival, jump to the end for instructions.

Unsigned Artists

• über très presents So Overlooked, So Fucking Awesome, a review of an unsigned band – Roughstars.
• Patrick Silvestri presents Submitting To XM?s Unsigned Channel ? XMU 43, a great way for emerging rock bands to get their music before a radio audience.
• Chris Muktar presents Why Write Songs? musing on the reasons for writing your own original material in the first place and on the quality of your songs.
• James Lee Stanley presents Booking Yourself – good pointers if you’re looking to break into the local live music scene…
• Paul Heingarten reminds us that private Lessons are important and can boost your confidence and help you avoid bad habits.

Reviews

• Zach Moore presents a review of Divine Heresy – Bleed the Fifth.
• James Bouklas presents “Lucy Gray” Sees Lukewarm Reviews posted at Club Alley.

Misc

• Adam Thompson presents Who Is The Best Phantom? A Video Gallery?
• Chris Moreau presents Rock & Roll Hootchie Coo, his observations on getting older and still rocking.
• Madeleine Begun Kane presents Night On The Town — Judy Carmichael, Stride Pianist.
• Sidhusaaheb presents some Innovative Solutions for preventing Piracy.

Guidelines For The Next Carnival

At the minute, I’m getting a lot of dross submissions to the Carnival of Music. These include:

• Stuff that’s not related to music
• Posts that are too short, badly written or not even interesting
• Multiple submissions per author/blog

So, I’ve decided to draft up some quality guidelines for the carnival of music. Don’t bother submitting if your posts don’t comply with the following:

1. You must now link back to Unreality Music (http://music.unrealitytv.co.uk) to qualify for inclusion. This helps promote the carnival to others and will hopefully build up community around it.
2. Unrelated posts/ridiculously short posts/badly written posts won’t be considered. Likewise multiple submissions – your first submission will be the one I use, so make it a good one!
3. Try and stick to the categories if they’re set. Generally I want to see posts about recent mainstream releases, upcoming or unsigned bands, tributes to well-known artists or reviews of gigs, albums etc.
4. The next music carnival will be published on 26 October 2007. The submission deadline is 25 October 2007.
5. Submit your posts to the carnival of music submission page.