Showing posts with label Message from the editor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Message from the editor. Show all posts

Friday, February 28, 2014

300 Posts! Message from The SI Band Guy

Well well well, 300 posts it took long enough!

First and foremost I would like to apologize on the lack of posting. I received a promotion at my current job that bumped me up to Assistant Editor, so my responsibilities shifted from writing a billion articles to now writing, managing, social media, and helping other writers. Check out Breathecast.com to see my new digs. 

Originally started as a class project, this blog took on a life of own, and bands and musicians started coming to me for posting. It is awesome, but unfortunately is a side thing for me because SIBandGuy does not pay the bills! So now I'm going to try and implement a better posting system so life does not get away from me and this gets left in the back burner.

So for 2014 I won't make any promises of a daily fully awesome blog, but I will do my best to update the page with all of your favorite local news, industry interviews, album reviews, photography, and quick trips into journalism, film, and the occasional thought provoking music article.

As always, send an email my way to JSarachik@gmail.com if you would like to be featured or even guest blog. Better yet, throw me some cash too! Just kidding...but seriously...


- Justin "The SI Band Guy"

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Blog Post Number 200!


Hey everyone, I want to thank each and every one of the bands and different artists I've interviewed or wrote about, and most importantly you, the readers for keeping up with my mostly consistent but sometimes not blog. It was just a little while ago I was blogging about my 100th blog, and now here we are at 200.

As always, I promise to provide my readers with good interviews and honest reviews along with a few musings along the way. Bare with me as I branch a little off topic sometimes, I like to write about a variety of things, lately it's been movies.

The blog is continuing to grow into a branch of Broken Records Magazine and more cross features are coming. The brand has been expanding a lot, so good things are on the way. I have a number of contributors as well, Paul Marino, Gerard Ucelli, and James Kingsley.

I've come along way since my little class blog project.

Again, many thanks everyone, please don't hesitate to contact me for interviews, reviews, or just general questions. Follow me on Twitter - @JSarachik_Brmag or like TheSIBandGuy on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TheSIBandGuy?ref=ts or Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSIBandGuy

While you're at it, take a look at my sneak peek of my first studio album.


Thursday, January 12, 2012

Number 150 - The Beginning

Hello all and welcome to blog post 150!


I write to you today as someone who has spent the last two days home from work sick and has slept a combined 27 hours in two days (GLORIOUS!)


For this blog a numerical proportions I write to you as someone who is extremely overworked with many ideas and ventures going at once. However, I will not complain because I have brought it all upon myself and enjoy every bit of what I'm doing.


With that being said, I encourage bands and artists of all kinds to continue to send me stuff to post about as well as inquiries as to getting on here and in my magazine Brokenrecordsonline.com.


Lastly, I would like to make an official announcement right here!


Over the last month or so I have been developing a label/promotions company out of my magazine and I feel like I have finally have the means and the right people in place to launch this thing. I have signed several local artists who you will all meet in time, and we will be taking over the Island. Here is the press release!



THE BROKEN RECORDS COLLECTIVE
The Broken Records Collective is the newest brain child of Broken Records Magazine Editor-in-Chief Justin Sarachik, and will be looking to take seven of Staten Island's very best artist's in rock music and hip-hop and join them together for one common goal, success. 

The concept is to create a management/promotions record label on Staten Island that holds true to everything it promises and works exclusively with the groups to succeed as a collective. 

At the start, the label will merge hip-hop and rock to create a powerhouse of talent that not only showcases individuals, but also moves powerfully as a group to present a great show and experience for anyone involved.

The artist's have been specifically selected to compliment each other in order provide the best results. While mixing rap and rock is not a new concept, there will only be one band that floats in the middle of both. The rest of the groups will be strictly rap or rock, but at the same time unique to the collective as a whole.

TBRC will aim for two group shows a month, one in the beginning and one in the end. In between these shows, smaller selections of the group will perform either a rock show or a rap show or any other show a band has an obligation to fulfill. 

Proceeds from the shows will be split up between the artist's and the remainder will go back into the group to be used for promotion, merchandise, or whatever the collective needs.

Promotion for the group will come through Broken Records Magazine,www.Brokenrecordsonline.com, www.thesibandguy.blogspot.com, www.Offtangent.com, WSIA 88.9 Staten Island, Facebook and Twitter group pages, and the overall hustle and word of mouth of the parties involved. 

Broken Records will provide the contacts and means of reaching out to record labels, publicist, and other publications in order to raise awareness in other places. A monthly press release/newsletter will be sent out to blogs and music sites to inform the Internet world what is going on.

TBRC will be working internally to provide for itself jobs, whether it be recording, photography, videos, or promoters. The group will be a well-oiled machine, a community of talent helping each other get to the next level.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

This Is Where I Work Now- Give Me Clicks!

I'm terribly sorry that this blog is getting neglected. Quite honestly it's killing me, but I assure you that I'm still writing. I got a job in Manhattan as the music writer for the ChristianPost.com and that is pretty much consuming all of my time as I'm writing 5-10 stories a day. This one ACTUALLY PAYS! So please I implore you to give me some clicks because that is one of two ways that I get paid! Keep reading my blog, and still comment and send me suggestions and I'll get to them when I can. Thanks!
- Justin

Go here to see a list of every article I've written

Here's a list of some of my better ones:
Kurt Cobain was a weird person...
Mark Hammit Creates album, almost loses son...
Amy Winehouse knew she was going to die...
Prince Michael Jackson Honors his father after death...
Kutless Christmas album
Relient K Covers Album
Rachael Lampa album review
David Crowder Band Christmas album

Friday, April 15, 2011

Blog Post Number 100!!!

Hey everyone, I wanted to thank all of my blog viewers and followers for coming along on this blogging journey with me. I can't in little over a year I have reached post number 100. Special shout out to all the bands, musicians, artists, and people I have written about over this last year. I obviously could not have done it without you all!

Expect more things to come over the next year as this blog transitions more into the Broken Records Blog. Also, I am added contributors and more special features to very slowly. Stick with me and I promise it will be awesome!!!


Photo by Matt Donders

-Justin The S.I. Band Guy