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If you’re a local band or musician, please consider sending us a copy of your latest work. It’ll get farmed out to one of our writers and reviewed forthwith (or forthwith enough…). We’re looking for independent and underground music from the BAY AREA ONLY (that means no Sacramento, Santa Cruz, etc.). Please read this first, then send me an email so I can give you our address and keep an eye out for your package. I prefer that over blind submissions.

Likewise, if you’re a BAY AREA artist with an upcoming local show that you’d like us to check out, drop me a line with the info and I’ll pass it on to our contributors to see if anyone’s able and interested.

Hopefully you won’t have to twist our arm too much. We WANT to hear your music.

Thanks and happy music making,

CBS5.com found NASCENT…and likes it! Behold:

Thanks to The Snitch’s awesome BetterKnowanSFBlog feature we just learned about the excellent Nascent music blog. We were wondering where the big time music bloggers were. Found! And he’s looking for writers.

Indeed, NASCENT has been semi-profiled in the SF Weekly blog The Snitch. The post highlights our current call for contributors, which is rad because hey, we’re looking for contributors. There’s also a dashing shot of my mug, cropped by yours truly from a picture taken in Seattle a couple years ago. The author of the blog post, Tyler Callister, gave me a call for a brief interview a couple weeks ago, then turned my hopes and dreams into a short and sweet blog post, which I guess is exactly what I do for local musicians with Local Licks every week. I’m happy with the result, and happy to share it. Maybe it will help my call for contributors find its way to the next (first?) NASCENT superstar.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/02/local_music_blog_calls_for_wri.php

Hey you! Yeah dude, you. Wanna write for a sweet blog all about the Bay Area’s thriving independent and underground music scene? Then why not write for NASCENT?

We won’t pay you, but we’ll think you’re pretty cool. You’ll also get valuable writing experience, the chance to chat with some great local musicians, and even some free CDs and concert tickets. You’re also guaranteed to learn more about all the fantastic shit going on right under our noses.

All you need is a love of music, an interest in the Bay Area music scene, and some writing skills. What you’ll write and how often is something we can work out together.

If you’re interested, drop Nate a line at info@nascentmag.com.

ADDENDUM: Some empathy for our position in The Snitch, a news blog at the SF Weekly.

Or, read the short version here.