It seems that I’m always behind on things when it comes to this site. Either it’s writing up my SXSW reviews, getting new radio shows up, etc. etc. etc., I’m always late. And the loving donewaiting.com audience isn’t afraid to remind me again and again. (winks!)
On top of that, there is a small percentage of people who like to swim around in our message board, reminding me how much I and the site sucks. It doesn’t bother me too much, it’s more annoying than anything else, but still, it takes time away from the real goals of the website.
But then I get an e-mail like this and I’m reminded as to why I do what I do:
Hope things are well with you. The Evil Queens and I want you to be the first to know, especially since you turned me on to the boys. My label Addison Records will be re-releasing The Evil Queens album “First it Boils, Then It Spills” to an unexpecting public sometime at the end of June.
So the way it worked out: I played a new song off the self-released Queens album on one of my podcast/radio shows awhile back. Marc over at Addision hears the song, loves the song, comes to Columbus for the band’s CD release show back in March. Loves their live show. (Who doesn’t?)
A month later, the album goes from being self-released to having a national presence. Granted, I don’t feel that to be successful you have to be ‘signed’ to a label, but to know that the band is going to have some additional support behind them to win over new fans, that really warms my cold, bitter heart.
Congrats to both the Evil Queens and Addison for what will hopefully be a great working relationship.