So you want to be reviewed at Lucid Culture.
BEFORE you contact us, have a look around. You might find something you like and you’ll get a picture of what we’re about. Are you, your music, your art or whatever you create fun, interesting, unique, passionate, intense, clever, subtle and/or amusing? You don’t have to be all of these things. But please be something. If you’re a whiny poser who has nothing to say and just wants to date model wannabes, this isn’t the site for you. Go to pitchfork instead.
As you’ll discover, we’re basically a New York live music blog, but we’re open to pretty much anything new and interesting: art, theatre, dance, film, literature, nonfiction, poetry, grassroots political action, etc.
We vastly prefer to celebrate all the great things going on rather than focusing on the negative. However, if you disregard these instructions and send us something really bad, brace yourself for a sound spanking. If we review you, link to you or otherwise give you a mention, it is because we think the world would be better off knowing about you. If we don’t, it doesn’t mean you suck: we could be waiting for your next creation, we might have missed your event, accidentally deleted the link you sent or maybe were just too hungover to remember it until it was too late.
For music, if we need to review your cd, we’d prefer a link to where we can hear the whole thing online. If that’s not possible, we’ll let you know where to send the cd. Also, when doing mail submissions, we don’t need a fancy package, and don’t waste money on FedEX. Just a CD, a bio and info on any links you have on the web is are sufficient.
For listings in our weekly NYC live music calendar, please be aware that we only list shows that are less than $40 including TicketBastard inconvenience charge, if applicable. If you want us to list your ticketed show and advance tickets are available either for face value or for a discount, please let us know where the box office is and what its hours of operation are. We don’t list shows where discounted advance tickets are only available online to credit card customers, or where all tickets are only available online. The more advance notice you give us, the better the likelihood that we’ll list your gig.
And in case you haven’t already guessed it, we also don’t list events whose main component is lipsynching or prerecorded material being piped over a sound system.
Please send any and all links, queries, etc. to lucidculture@gmail.com
