We review music demos from all over the world! However, Demorama is only here for NEW artists. What does that mean? It means musicians or artists who don't already have some sort of big industry connections. It means musicians or artists who are just starting out and getting ready to jump into the amazing? terrifying? tiring? living-in-a-van-down-by-the-river? world of music performance and promotion. For example:

1. We only review submissions from Indie artists. If you are on or affiliated with a major label, we wish you luck but will NOT take your submission. 

2. If you have been in a popular, successful band before (ex: your last project sold a buttload of albums, or went on some big tours, or have songs in heavy rotation in radio stations around your country) then we won't take any submissions from your "new project." 

3. If you do work for other successful projects -- say you produced an album by (insert name of famous band here), or you performed on some tracks for an album by (insert name of famous band here), or you play with (insert name of famous band here) when they tour, then we will not take your material. That's because you're already obviously established, and you have your highly coveted industry tie-ins. You're already bar-hoppin' and throwin' back beers with the beautiful and famous musical jet set. 

You see, Demorama could care a less about the beautiful and famous musical jet set...

...We're here just for the little guys. Never released an album before? Or you released one or two but you're having trouble promoting them, or nobody knows about you yet? Your last project wasn't as successful as you had hoped, or broke up before you became rich and famous? We're here to give you a review. That's because it will be damn hard, if not impossible, for you to get reviews elsewhere. Hence our motto:

We were fans before they were popular.

 And then there's our Corporate Mission Statement, which is: 

Demorama.com. Reviewing shitty bands for over 10 years. 

Yeah, we'll review your complete shit band too.

Demorama accepts vinyl, cassettes, and CD's. 

We also review online material. And although we review a large portion of the submissions we receive, we can't guarantee everyone a review. After you submit material, it usually takes a couple of months for your review to show up. NOTE: Please don't send us "followup" emails asking whether or not we got your submission. Honestly, we just don't have time to respond to all that followup email. It's hard enough for us to find writers to review the submissions -- hiring an admin assistant is out of the question.

Anyway...the submissions that we do review usually get listened to by one or two writers on our staff. And if we count our luckless friends, family and roommates that are around during this unfortunate time, then your submission gets listened to by even more people. All of our writers are certified music freaks, or in bands themselves. And since none of them get paid for their hours of hard work, we consider ourselves pretty lucky to have such a dedicated writing staff on board. We don't really know how we keep attracting all these writers. They spend hours listening to demos, crafting reviews, and re-crafting reviews. And all they get for it is scathing emails from the bands they didn't like. Oh, wait, there is all the free booze and  great love slaves.

Want to write for Demorama? Email us at Demorama@visi.com

ABOUT THE STAFF

Basically we do three things.

1) Music.

2) Video games.

3) Drinking.

(for you really observant types, yes that's a Bee Gees album in the lower right-hand corner. You see, you just can't listen to shit that bad without a lot of drinking.)

Occasionally, we do work...

Steve "Rock Star" Jesok is Demorama's highly excellent web designer, and we wouldn't be where we are today without 'em. He is responsible for the site and all of the site maintenance. If you want to compliment our esteemed webmaster on his work, or if you wish to talk to Steve about maintaining a site just fer you, contact him at: SJESOK@YAHOO.COM

Conrad Teves is the LORD OF THE DEMORAMA FREESTUFF. Conrad also provided a lot of the cool graphics for this site, like the lava lamp and the intro band. If you wish to contact Conrad to tell him how cool his design work is, or to hire his services for your own projects, or to discuss space, astronomy, video game design or any multitude of cool shit, then write him at: CITEV@AOL.COM

Todd "The Source" Schneider is our official, in-house computer support guru. All Demorama work is done on a specialized system designed and built by Todd. If you would like Todd to make you a specialized PC system, just give him a holler at: thesource@t0dd.com

Gary Vogel and Nikolas Allen are the masters behind the Demorama theme song. God bless 'em for being so dang talented. Jeez, don't you just love hot young rock stars? We sure do.

Deneen Gannon is the Demorama Editorix. She has a big mouth and a love for music -- and vinyl -- that won't quit. She's also the undisputed Queen Collector of Musical Instruments She No Longer Plays. If you're really bored, you can email her at Quirkell@visi.com 

And no, we don't get paid for our efforts. So if you don't like your review, tough shit.

If you want to contact Demorama to tell us how much you love us, hate us, or can't live without us because you love us or hate us, use:

Demorama@visi.com

How do I Submit Material?

Send all of your hardcopy material (vinyl, cassettes or CD's) to the following address:

DEMORAMA
C/O Deneen Gannon
The Tilsner Artist's Cooperative
300 Broadway #608
St. Paul, MN, 55101
United States

For online material, use this sleek submission form:

(You need at LEAST three full-length songs on your website in order to get an online submission!
        And, please note all fields (below) are required on the Online Submission form!)

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